Last year:

Reach: USC, Michigan (OOS), Northeastern
Target: Syracuse, LMU, UMD
Safety: Michigan State, University of Delaware, RIT

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Reach: UChicago, JHU, Princeton
Target: Boston U
Safety: Texas A&M (Engineering)

dead wrong on target as was WL on BU but accepted to reaches and safety

Curious, where did he/she end up?

UChicago

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Anonymous wrote:Reaches: Middlebury, Bowdoin
Targets: Colgate, Hamilton, Bates
Safeties: UVM, UNH, Union, Skidmore

I like this list. It's coherent and consistent. I hope your DC gets into one of their reaches!

Brrrrr

I went to a similar school in New England. I hate the cold, but it is conducive to studying since the alternatives in sub zero temps are not very attractive (I am an outdoorsy girl). So I studied a lot and socialized, got top grades, made amazing friends, was offered a great job straight out of college and am successful in my field. It all worked out beautifully, despite my initial apprehensions about the climate, isolation and small size of the school. Oh, and zero of my classes were taught by TAs. SLACs in the Northeast for the win!

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Anonymous wrote:Reaches: Middlebury, Bowdoin
Targets: Colgate, Hamilton, Bates
Safeties: UVM, UNH, Union, Skidmore

I like this list. It's coherent and consistent. I hope your DC gets into one of their reaches!

Brrrrr

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Reach: Rice, MIT
Target: USC, Michigan
Safety: Maryland

Attends Rice

Do they like it?? I worry it'll be too southern for my DC...

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Reach: Penn, Georgetown, Michigan & UNC OOS
Target: Cornell (ILR), Chicago (ED), Williams, Emory, Northeastern, Wesleyan
Safety: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Stonybrook, Indiana

Accepted Chicago, so never got to try for the reaches, which I have mixed feelings about (kid seems happy).

Isn't Chicago the highest ranked and best on your list? How is that considered a target, while Michigan and Georgetown reaches? Both of those are ranked in the mid 20s and known as less rigorous schools.

Troll. Williams target but Georgetown reach? Makes no sense.

I agree. That whole list is nonsensical. Chicago and Williams are top schools.

Anonymous wrote:Reaches: Middlebury, Bowdoin
Targets: Colgate, Hamilton, Bates
Safeties: UVM, UNH, Union, Skidmore

I like this list. It's coherent and consistent. I hope your DC gets into one of their reaches!

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Anonymous wrote:New York state -

Reach: Penn, Georgetown, Michigan & UNC OOS
Target: Cornell (ILR), Chicago (ED), Williams, Emory, Northeastern, Wesleyan
Safety: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Stonybrook, Indiana

Accepted Chicago, so never got to try for the reaches, which I have mixed feelings about (kid seems happy).

Isn't Chicago the highest ranked and best on your list? How is that considered a target, while Michigan and Georgetown reaches? Both of those are ranked in the mid 20s and known as less rigorous schools.

Troll. Williams target but Georgetown reach? Makes no sense.

Anonymous wrote:New York state -

Reach: Penn, Georgetown, Michigan & UNC OOS
Target: Cornell (ILR), Chicago (ED), Williams, Emory, Northeastern, Wesleyan
Safety: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Stonybrook, Indiana

Accepted Chicago, so never got to try for the reaches, which I have mixed feelings about (kid seems happy).

Isn't Chicago the highest ranked and best on your list? How is that considered a target, while Michigan and Georgetown reaches? Both of those are ranked in the mid 20s and known as less rigorous schools.

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Reach: UChicago, JHU, Princeton
Target: Boston U
Safety: Texas A&M (Engineering)

dead wrong on target as was WL on BU but accepted to reaches and safety

Curious, where did he/she end up?

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Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM

I like this one.

I do too.

Reach - Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Brown
Target - Notre Dame, Northwestern, Michigan
Safety - Illinois, Rochester, Tulane

Was accepted at all Targets, Safeties, Duke (attends), and Brown

Reach: Rice ED (accepted)
Reaches on tap if ED did not work out: Amherst, Yale, Williams, Wash U, USC

Targets: Santa Clara, Loyola Marymount (accepted EA to both)

Safeties: U of Arizona, ASU (accepted at both)

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Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM

I like this one.

I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.

Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common

What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes". She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.

Bryn Mawr absolutely. Careful with Bowdoin, especially if she is coming in with post-AP math. My math major loves the school itself but has been limited by course availability - lots of faculty leaves in an already tiny department.

Woah-- thanks for the heads up! Hope Bowdoin can right the ship and get excellent new staff for its math department.

Their math faculty come from really underwhelming schools like University of Oklahoma and Manhattan college. This confirms to me that bowdoin is a much lower tier than people put on.

Threw up in my mouth

Had to look this up. The Manhattan College guy went on to get a PhD in Math from Brandeis. Is this really so horrible? He probably has a 200 IQ.
https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/r.maresca/index.html

He’s likely decent at math, but a place like Bowdoin should be attracting top faculty from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, or have some national reputation to compensate.

No, the majority of faculty from HYP want to work at R1 universities not SLACs.

The faculty lineup of most top lacs says otherwise. You do know there’s lac grads who go to top grad schools and return to their home institution right? Or people who just like teaching?

Reach HPYSM

Safety UVA W&M