Easiest Brand Name College/University to Get Into?

[Anonymous]

Northwestern can be very hard to get into if you don't apply ED. They aren't interested in being a safety school for high-stats kids who really want to go to an Ivy. There are more than enough well-qualified kids for whom Northwestern is the dream school.

Wash U, by contrast, is eager to play that back-up role, which yields them a high-stats student body and helps them move up in the rankings.

[Anonymous]

Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Wellesley, NYU (not Stern), Fordham, Duke, Notre Dame, Georgetown, GW, American come to mind. I am from NY and these were back ups for the honor students who wanted ivy. You may not get into all of them but have a good chance with 3.5 GPA and decent SAT scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Wellesley, NYU (not Stern), Fordham, Duke, Notre Dame, Georgetown, GW, American come to mind. I am from NY and these were back ups for the honor students who wanted ivy. You may not get into all of them but have a good chance with 3.5 GPA and decent SAT scores.

Duke acceptance rate is 10% You call that "easy."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Wellesley, NYU (not Stern), Fordham, Duke, Notre Dame, Georgetown, GW, American come to mind. I am from NY and these were back ups for the honor students who wanted ivy. You may not get into all of them but have a good chance with 3.5 GPA and decent SAT scores.

Duke acceptance rate is 10% You call that "easy."

A lot easier than getting into Harvard or Columbia. OP asked about child who has good grades and test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Wellesley, NYU (not Stern), Fordham, Duke, Notre Dame, Georgetown, GW, American come to mind. I am from NY and these were back ups for the honor students who wanted ivy. You may not get into all of them but have a good chance with 3.5 GPA and decent SAT scores.

Duke acceptance rate is 10% You call that "easy."

Also a lot of less qualified kids apply to Duke vs Harvard or Yale.

[Anonymous]

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1789717-ranking-by-selectivity-for-help-picking-reaches-matches-safeties-p1.html
Shows you what the standardized test scores for the middle of the class (25th-75th percentile) looks like at a variety of selective schools. I think the numbers are Class of 2019, but they might be earlier. In any event they're from the "old" SAT so useful in relative but not absolute terms.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1841185-college-admissions-statistics-class-of-2020-early-decision-early-action-acceptance-rates-p31.html
Gives you stats on number of applications, % admitted, broken down in some cases by early vs regular admissions of a couple dozen highly selective schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Wellesley, NYU (not Stern), Fordham, Duke, Notre Dame, Georgetown, GW, American come to mind. I am from NY and these were back ups for the honor students who wanted ivy. You may not get into all of them but have a good chance with 3.5 GPA and decent SAT scores.

Duke acceptance rate is 10% You call that "easy."

A lot easier than getting into Harvard or Columbia. OP asked about child who has good grades and test scores.

?? That is not enough to get you into Duke or Northwestern. Neither can remotely be called easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Wellesley, NYU (not Stern), Fordham, Duke, Notre Dame, Georgetown, GW, American come to mind. I am from NY and these were back ups for the honor students who wanted ivy. You may not get into all of them but have a good chance with 3.5 GPA and decent SAT scores.

Duke acceptance rate is 10% You call that "easy."

A lot easier than getting into Harvard or Columbia. OP asked about child who has good grades and test scores.

You should go back and read the OP. Not a top ten per-center, wants one of the "easier" brand name colleges to get into. Duke is like #8 in US News of all colleges in the country. Yes Harvard and Columbia are higher but they are at the tippy-top of the pyramid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wisconsin from out of state.

Yeah, if you are in-state from anywhere other than Madison, forget it. Out of state is much easier.

[Anonymous]

A couple of posters mentioned Washington U and Geo Mason. Would check your politics and religion before you get involved.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wisconsin from out of state.

Yeah, if you are in-state from anywhere other than Madison, forget it. Out of state is much easier.

No. This is not true. Wisconsin has a cap on oos students which makes it harder.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wisconsin from out of state.

Yeah, if you are in-state from anywhere other than Madison, forget it. Out of state is much easier.

No. This is not true. Wisconsin has a cap on oos students which makes it harder.

I know a half dozen rich party girls at Wisconsin. It's not hard to get in there out of state. They're hard-up for the cash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wisconsin from out of state.

Yeah, if you are in-state from anywhere other than Madison, forget it. Out of state is much easier.

No. This is not true. Wisconsin has a cap on oos students which makes it harder.

not anymore.

https://www.wisconsin.edu/news/archive/regents-approve-lifting-cap-on-out-of-state-students-at-uw-madison-day-2-news-summary/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A couple of posters mentioned Washington U and Geo Mason. Would check your politics and religion before you get involved.

Huh? Are they some of the very few liberal schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wisconsin from out of state.

Yeah, if you are in-state from anywhere other than Madison, forget it. Out of state is much easier.

No. This is not true. Wisconsin has a cap on oos students which makes it harder.

I know a half dozen rich party girls at Wisconsin. It's not hard to get in there out of state. They're hard-up for the cash.

There are rich party girls at almost every top 50 school in the country.