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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is a good student (A- unweighted at a decent but not "top tier" private school outside DMV), strong standard ECs (varsity sport/club leadership, community service), strong SAT (1510).
Major: Undecided social sciences

Has anyone had a DC attend or have experiences at these colleges that you'd be willing to share?
University of Denver
UW Seattle
McGill
UC Davis or UC Santa Cruz
Santa Clara
U Wisconsin Madison

Finally, would these reaches (USC, BU, tufts, NYU, UCSB, Michigan) be too high of a reach for this profile student? He's interested in applying but I'm afraid they're too reachy.
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This is a great list.  Of the reaches, I would give Michigan a maybe - need strong essays - especially why Michigan. I agree with the PP that gave advice on the potential major/interest. I don’t work in admissions, but I have to imagine it’s like when I am looking for a handful of interns that could be working in very different tasking for a related set of majors. I am comparing resumes of the people that have similar skill sets/interests so there are times where maybe 20 resumes have one thing but only 5 of the other and we need one person for each task …while also realizing there is some flexibility where people might help put on an adjacent area on the team.

For Tufts, BU, and NYU there is likely a bump applying ED.  But honestly, your family would need to feel very comfortable possibly giving up UC in-state tuition and not being able to compare offers from other schools where your DS might get some merit or would be a lower cost than those reach private universities in major cities.  Applying RD to Tufts, NYU, or BU, besides being more competitive than ED, he won’t get a decision until late March/early April while other schools on his lists have EA.  Under other schools to look at I would add Pitt.

Also they have to look at their list in terms of schools that offer EA, when the decision would be in, and if demonstrated interest matters. I think McGill and Santa Clara could all have December decisions if applying EA and Pitt could be prior (it’s rolling).  My kids both had a ton of EA schools so they had to be done with majority of applications by Nov 1 if not slightly earlier - this included visits if possible and having strong Why x school, if needed.

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