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Let’s try this fun analogy exercise.
If your kid falls in love with a reach school, what is a more attainable school that is similar in some way. It can be specific or just a general vibe. I’ll start with two of my opinions after a bunch of research and visits. Looking forward to others’ observations! USC undergraduate business: Loyola Marymount University undergraduate business William & Mary: Franklin & Marshall |
Anonymous
| Yale: Brown: Wesleyan/Reed/Hamilton |
Anonymous
| Stanford/MIT: northwestern/Harvey Mudd/Michigan |
Anonymous
Aren't they all super reach? On steroid? |
Anonymous
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Colby: St. Lawrence.
Haverford: Bates. Brown: Skidmore. |
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Penn,Harvard,Columbia: UChicago,Vandy,WashU Yale, Dartmouth: Amherst, Bowdoin MIT: CMU |
Anonymous
no, NU, HM and Mich are matches for top of the class kids at our private, with about 30-50% acceptance if in the top 5% and top rigor. CCO had data. Proved to be correct. |
Anonymous
Big difference in early admit rate for Stanford and Northwestern (and definitely Michigan). |
Anonymous
| Dartmouth:Middlebury Holy Cross:Villanova. Colgate:Bucknell |
Anonymous
| I think this exercise only works if there’s a ceiling / floor. So a sub-5% school matched with a 25%+ school, or a sub-20% school paired with a 50%+ school. I think OP was going in the right direction and then people were like “maybe Amherst lol?” |
Anonymous
Note that Vandy and WashU are going in a different political direction away from the Ivies as noted on another thread here today. May or may not matter to an applicant. |
Anonymous
This IS fun. |
Anonymous
Hmmm, interesting ... |
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Swarthmore: Reed
Princeton: Wooster Carleton: Lawrence |
Anonymous
It doesn't matter. What matters is that they put Penn and Columbia in the same bucket as H! |