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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT publishes the share of applicants at various grade and standardized test combinations that it accepts. At your daughter's level that's something like 10%. With that data point you can make assumptions about the probability of admission to the schools your daughter has an interest in relative to MIT and any hooks or lack of hooks she may have. [/quote]

One way to push yourself into that 10% is to have a very specialized interest, as a PP noted. There are a billion qualified candidates for HYP, all great kids, all of whom deserve to get in.

In the end, if the school needs a tuba player or a near-Eastern studies major or someone interested in some arcane STEM subject, they will choose that kid. Or if some kid's essay catches their eye, that kid will have a chance.

HYPS is pretty much a lottery these days, OP, even for the very best and brightest.

FWIW, I know a kid who went to a no-name college who got into one of the most competitive STEM graduate programs in the US.

The name of your undergraduate college doesn't matter all that much in the long run as long as your kid does well there.

Good luck, OP, and good luck to your DD. She'll be happy at lots of non-HYP schools, so she needs to apply to a handful of other great schools that she'll have a better chance at getting into. She might get lucky and get a spot at HYP, but it's more likely she'll lose the lottery, end up with nothing and be forced to take a year off.

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