Pls suggest 2 each for reaches, targets, safeties for this student

[Anonymous]

Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Barnard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reaches: Brown, Yale, Harvey Mudd, Stanford (stay away from Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Harvard, Duke).

Targets: Hamilton, Haverford, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Bates, Davidson, Wake, W&M

Safeties: Beloit, St. Olaf, Denison, Kenyon, Colby

(Given stats and a small elite private school, these targets are different than what many would suggest for a public school student).

spot on

Colby should be moved up to Targets, maybe higher

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Ideal small to medium-sized interdisciplinary college in a city or suburb
- chemistry major, also wants to take classes in AI and applied math
- wants high exposure to professors and research opportunities
- has strived in high rigor environment but doesn’t want the kind of place where fun goes to die or everyone is studying for grades
- collaborative, highly intellectual culture where students love learning, not all about jockeying for IB connections or the next IPO opportunity
- Female, unhooked, non URM, from a top private, full pay, quiet nerdy but has lot of friends
- 1580, 3.88 from a school that’s known for rigor/doesn't grade inflate (no one gets a 4.0), decent ECs (STEM leadership, part time job year round, volunteer year round, some regional math and writing awards)

Rice would be the reach here. But the ECs need to be there, and it's somewhat beneficial to apply ED. They started an AI major this year, so they have the classes for that. MIT would be the other reach. But again - ECs, essays, LOCs. But there's no advantage to applying early to MIT early, so save that one for RD.

Other schools would be Berkeley, Georgia Tech, UIUC, Penn, and Cornell. CMU is also good, but it's a where fun goes to die school.

Safety is your state flagship.

Did you not read? Small to medium-sized interdisciplinary schools. Every single school you suggested is a HORRIBLE fit.
You suck at this.

Smart kid. Chemistry. AI. Access to research and professors. Collaborative. Urban or suburban.

There are zero liberal arts colleges that match this. The exception would be Harvey Mudd.

Besides Rice and MIT, this kid should be considering bigger schools. They are not all awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP here. Why stay away from Duke?

Bc it has a less collaborative culture and is a very sharp-elbowed IB/Wall Street vibe. Everyone is constantly one-upping another. Socially competitive too if you are not part of the crew that lives in the library.

Because it is full of douchebags.

100%

[Anonymous]

Brown
Pomona
Northwestern

Emory

Carleton
Haverford
W&M

Bryn Mawr
Macalester

[Anonymous]

Davidson and Carleton for moderate reaches

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Ideal small to medium-sized interdisciplinary college in a city or suburb
- chemistry major, also wants to take classes in AI and applied math
- wants high exposure to professors and research opportunities
- has strived in high rigor environment but doesn’t want the kind of place where fun goes to die or everyone is studying for grades
- collaborative, highly intellectual culture where students love learning, not all about jockeying for IB connections or the next IPO opportunity
- Female, unhooked, non URM, from a top private, full pay, quiet nerdy but has lot of friends
- 1580, 3.88 from a school that’s known for rigor/doesn't grade inflate (no one gets a 4.0), decent ECs (STEM leadership, part time job year round, volunteer year round, some regional math and writing awards)

Reach: Swarthmore, Harvey Mudd

Target: Carleton College in Northfield, MN (45 mins from twin cities) sounds like the the perfect intellectual place for your DD. Extremely collaborative, full of engaged, curious students and teachers who love teaching. Science is not an afterthought at this LAC, but a strength.

Isn't Swarthmore hyper-competitive and like a mini-UChicago (where fun goes to die)?

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Rice as a reach. It would be a great fit for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Ideal small to medium-sized interdisciplinary college in a city or suburb
- chemistry major, also wants to take classes in AI and applied math
- wants high exposure to professors and research opportunities
- has strived in high rigor environment but doesn’t want the kind of place where fun goes to die or everyone is studying for grades
- collaborative, highly intellectual culture where students love learning, not all about jockeying for IB connections or the next IPO opportunity
- Female, unhooked, non URM, from a top private, full pay, quiet nerdy but has lot of friends
- 1580, 3.88 from a school that’s known for rigor/doesn't grade inflate (no one gets a 4.0), decent ECs (STEM leadership, part time job year round, volunteer year round, some regional math and writing awards)

Reach: Swarthmore, Harvey Mudd

Target: Carleton College in Northfield, MN (45 mins from twin cities) sounds like the the perfect intellectual place for your DD. Extremely collaborative, full of engaged, curious students and teachers who love teaching. Science is not an afterthought at this LAC, but a strength.

Isn't Swarthmore hyper-competitive and like a mini-UChicago (where fun goes to die)?

Yes. Bad fit.

[Anonymous]

With the those parameters,

Reach Rice ED

Target Carlton

Probably a safety with those sats, + ED II, Davidson

Safety Reed, Rhodes, Trinity U

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With the those parameters,

Reach Rice ED

Target Carlton

Probably a safety with those sats, + ED II, Davidson

Safety Reed, Rhodes, Trinity U

From our non-DMV private, this kid is a Brown ED1 and Pomona/Rice/UChicago ED2.
Gets into Davidson in RD (no one EDs to Davidson bc everyone gets in RD who actually wants to go). In fact, if deferred from Brown, I wouldn't ED2 anywhere. Safeties should be much higher ranked than the ones listed above.

It truly depends on how elite your private is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With the those parameters,

Reach Rice ED

Target Carlton

Probably a safety with those sats, + ED II, Davidson

Safety Reed, Rhodes, Trinity U

From our non-DMV private, this kid is a Brown ED1 and Pomona/Rice/UChicago ED2.
Gets into Davidson in RD (no one EDs to Davidson bc everyone gets in RD who actually wants to go). In fact, if deferred from Brown, I wouldn't ED2 anywhere. Safeties should be much higher ranked than the ones listed above.

It truly depends on how elite your private is.

Agree, from an elite private, Davidson is a target. They love private schools and will go relatively deep into the class at ours. However, it isn’t urban and not sure its academic strengths match her interests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reaches: Brown, Yale, Harvey Mudd, Stanford (stay away from Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Harvard, Duke).

Targets: Hamilton, Haverford, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Bates, Davidson, Wake, W&M

Safeties: Beloit, St. Olaf, Denison, Kenyon, Colby

(Given stats and a small elite private school, these targets are different than what many would suggest for a public school student).

Colby is not a safety, and it’s in the middle of nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Ideal small to medium-sized interdisciplinary college in a city or suburb
- chemistry major, also wants to take classes in AI and applied math
- wants high exposure to professors and research opportunities
- has strived in high rigor environment but doesn’t want the kind of place where fun goes to die or everyone is studying for grades
- collaborative, highly intellectual culture where students love learning, not all about jockeying for IB connections or the next IPO opportunity
- Female, unhooked, non URM, from a top private, full pay, quiet nerdy but has lot of friends
- 1580, 3.88 from a school that’s known for rigor/doesn't grade inflate (no one gets a 4.0), decent ECs (STEM leadership, part time job year round, volunteer year round, some regional math and writing awards)

Rice would be the reach here. But the ECs need to be there, and it's somewhat beneficial to apply ED. They started an AI major this year, so they have the classes for that. MIT would be the other reach. But again - ECs, essays, LOCs. But there's no advantage to applying early to MIT early, so save that one for RD.

Other schools would be Berkeley, Georgia Tech, UIUC, Penn, and Cornell. CMU is also good, but it's a where fun goes to die school.

Safety is your state flagship.

Did you not read? Small to medium-sized interdisciplinary schools. Every single school you suggested is a HORRIBLE fit.
You suck at this.

Smart kid. Chemistry. AI. Access to research and professors. Collaborative. Urban or suburban.

There are zero liberal arts colleges that match this. The exception would be Harvey Mudd.

Besides Rice and MIT, this kid should be considering bigger schools. They are not all awful.

Swarthmore is suburban—they have a good chemistry department, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GPA weighted or unweighted?

OP: Unweighted. HS doesn’t offer AP so no weighted GPA but is known for rigor among colleges