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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll bite. Here’s a selection of really nice schools, of different sizes and locations that could be of interest, depending on major and setting. Lots of very different schools.

Reach: Northwestern, Cornell, U Penn, U Chicago, Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth
Target / Reach: Michigan, Rochester, Wash U, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Tufts
Target: Colby, Colgate, U Washington, Boston College, NYU
Safeties: Univ of Toronto, McGill, Wisconsin, Reed, Bates, Dickinson, Gettysburg, Tulane[/quote]

Toronto, McGill, Bates, Tulane and Wisc are NOT safeties.  I would say Bates and Tulane are likely with this profile, especially if full pay ED.

I would also encourage your high performing DS to include some highly ranking international schools as “likelies” since their admission is a bit more predictable ie the UK schools like Edinburg and St Andrew’s only care about your scores.  [/quote]

I do think Reed, Bates, Tulane, Dickinson, Gettysburg and Wisconsin are extremely likely. Bates is not need-blind so if the applicant is full pay, that helps. . [/quote]

Tulane and Bates aren’t extremely likely for anyone. Tulane just accepted 8% of its applicants and Bates accepted 13%. It’s simply a numbers game. There are too many well qualified candidates for too few spots. With acceptance rates like these, the final decisions on who makes the cut and who doesn’t become quite arbitrary. The president of the University of Chicago admitted as much a few years ago when he said, “If we replaced our entire freshman class with the next batch of applicants behind them, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.”[/quote]

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