Anonymous
01/09/2025 18:44
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Iamaworkinprogress wrote:Reach: Caltech(deferred REA, then denied), Harvey Mudd(accepted with merit - attending), CMU(WL, which my DS declined), MIT(denied)
Public reach: Berkeley(WL, which my DS declined), Michigan Engg.(accepted with merit), Georgia Tech(accepted with STAMPS semifinalist)
Target: UIUC(accepted), UMD CP - Clark Engg.(accepted), Purdue(accepted)
Safety: U-Minnesota(in-state)
Isn’t Harvey Mudd insanely difficult to graduate from? Did that make you nervous?
We have heard so, but DS was looking at Caltech anyway, so we knew that Harvey Mudd is equally harder, if not lesser. When he visited both Caltech and Harvey Mudd, I'd say he fell in love with Harvey Mudd more. When you hear people say that Harvey Mudd pulls kids towards it, that is actually true.
We love Harvey Mudd, but the only thing holding DD back is the campus. She likes Pomona and Scripps a lot more
Anonymous
01/09/2025 18:41
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Iamaworkinprogress wrote:Reach: Caltech(deferred REA, then denied), Harvey Mudd(accepted with merit - attending), CMU(WL, which my DS declined), MIT(denied)
Public reach: Berkeley(WL, which my DS declined), Michigan Engg.(accepted with merit), Georgia Tech(accepted with STAMPS semifinalist)
Target: UIUC(accepted), UMD CP - Clark Engg.(accepted), Purdue(accepted)
Safety: U-Minnesota(in-state)
Isn’t Harvey Mudd insanely difficult to graduate from? Did that make you nervous?
We have heard so, but DS was looking at Caltech anyway, so we knew that Harvey Mudd is equally harder, if not lesser. When he visited both Caltech and Harvey Mudd, I'd say he fell in love with Harvey Mudd more. When you hear people say that Harvey Mudd pulls kids towards it, that is actually true.
Anonymous
01/09/2025 18:13
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Iamaworkinprogress wrote:Reach: Caltech(deferred REA, then denied), Harvey Mudd(accepted with merit - attending), CMU(WL, which my DS declined), MIT(denied)
Public reach: Berkeley(WL, which my DS declined), Michigan Engg.(accepted with merit), Georgia Tech(accepted with STAMPS semifinalist)
Target: UIUC(accepted), UMD CP - Clark Engg.(accepted), Purdue(accepted)
Safety: U-Minnesota(in-state)
I’d love to know more about your kid. Mine has similar interests. Can you share how much merit he was offered at each of the schools? What do you think about his app got such great results? And finally, how does he like Harvey Mudd?
Anonymous
01/09/2025 18:10
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Iamaworkinprogress wrote:Reach: Caltech(deferred REA, then denied), Harvey Mudd(accepted with merit - attending), CMU(WL, which my DS declined), MIT(denied)
Public reach: Berkeley(WL, which my DS declined), Michigan Engg.(accepted with merit), Georgia Tech(accepted with STAMPS semifinalist)
Target: UIUC(accepted), UMD CP - Clark Engg.(accepted), Purdue(accepted)
Safety: U-Minnesota(in-state)
Isn’t Harvey Mudd insanely difficult to graduate from? Did that make you nervous?
Anonymous
01/09/2025 18:09
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Iamaworkinprogress wrote:Reach: Caltech(deferred REA, then denied), Harvey Mudd(accepted with merit - attending), CMU(WL, which my DS declined), MIT(denied)
Public reach: Berkeley(WL, which my DS declined), Michigan Engg.(accepted with merit), Georgia Tech(accepted with STAMPS semifinalist)
Target: UIUC(accepted), UMD CP - Clark Engg.(accepted), Purdue(accepted)
Safety: U-Minnesota(in-state)
Iamaworkinprogress
01/09/2025 18:05
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reach: Caltech(deferred REA, then denied), Harvey Mudd(accepted with merit - attending), CMU(WL, which my DS declined), MIT(denied)
Public reach: Berkeley(WL, which my DS declined), Michigan Engg.(accepted with merit), Georgia Tech(accepted with STAMPS semifinalist)
Target: UIUC(accepted), UMD CP - Clark Engg.(accepted), Purdue(accepted)
Safety: U-Minnesota(in-state)
Public reach: Berkeley(WL, which my DS declined), Michigan Engg.(accepted with merit), Georgia Tech(accepted with STAMPS semifinalist)
Target: UIUC(accepted), UMD CP - Clark Engg.(accepted), Purdue(accepted)
Safety: U-Minnesota(in-state)
Anonymous
01/09/2025 17:43
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Reach/Target: W&M (accepted ED—in state, 1490, weighted 4.2); Haverford, Davidson
Safety: Elon, Dickinson
Interesting. I thought W&M and Dickinson had similar acceptance rates around 35%.
WF: 1450 (50% submitting scores)
W&M: 1470 (60% submitting scores)
Tulane: 1450 (45% submitting scores)
BU: 1450 (40% submitting scores)
BC: 1470 (50% submitting scores)
Dickinson: 1360 (25% submitting scores)
Pepperdine: 1360 (21% submitting scores)
Seems like Dickinson is closer to Pepperdine in terms of stats and could be easier to get into.
Dickinson is basically “test blind.” They stopped requiring scores before the pandemic, and unlike most schools, list test scores as “considered” in the CDS. William and Mary lists them as “very important” in their CDS.
And both are resoundingly boring and basic
Anonymous
01/09/2025 17:40
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Reach/Target: W&M (accepted ED—in state, 1490, weighted 4.2); Haverford, Davidson
Safety: Elon, Dickinson
Interesting. I thought W&M and Dickinson had similar acceptance rates around 35%.
WF: 1450 (50% submitting scores)
W&M: 1470 (60% submitting scores)
Tulane: 1450 (45% submitting scores)
BU: 1450 (40% submitting scores)
BC: 1470 (50% submitting scores)
Dickinson: 1360 (25% submitting scores)
Pepperdine: 1360 (21% submitting scores)
Seems like Dickinson is closer to Pepperdine in terms of stats and could be easier to get into.
Dickinson is basically “test blind.” They stopped requiring scores before the pandemic, and unlike most schools, list test scores as “considered” in the CDS. William and Mary lists them as “very important” in their CDS.
Anonymous
01/09/2025 16:38
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Reach/Target: W&M (accepted ED—in state, 1490, weighted 4.2); Haverford, Davidson
Safety: Elon, Dickinson
Interesting. I thought W&M and Dickinson had similar acceptance rates around 35%.
WF: 1450 (50% submitting scores)
W&M: 1470 (60% submitting scores)
Tulane: 1450 (45% submitting scores)
BU: 1450 (40% submitting scores)
BC: 1470 (50% submitting scores)
Dickinson: 1360 (25% submitting scores)
Pepperdine: 1360 (21% submitting scores)
Seems like Dickinson is closer to Pepperdine in terms of stats and could be easier to get into.
Anonymous
01/09/2025 16:36
Subject: Re:What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
what a bad choice!Anonymous wrote:Safety: Kenyon, W&M
Reach: Williams (accepted), Bowdoin (dream school, denied), Carleton (attending)
Anonymous
01/09/2025 16:32
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Safety: BU (PWO), Gettysburg (offer)
Reach: Cornell, Amherst, Bowdoin, UPenn
DS is in touch with coaches at all 4 schools and from Cornell heard that he will have a spot on the team if he clears admissions.
That's super cool. Good luck!
Anonymous
01/09/2025 16:30
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Reach/Target: W&M (accepted ED—in state, 1490, weighted 4.2); Haverford, Davidson
Safety: Elon, Dickinson
Interesting. I thought W&M and Dickinson had similar acceptance rates around 35%.
Anonymous
01/09/2025 16:23
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Safety: BU (PWO), Gettysburg (offer)
Reach: Cornell, Amherst, Bowdoin, UPenn
DS is in touch with coaches at all 4 schools and from Cornell heard that he will have a spot on the team if he clears admissions.
Reach: Cornell, Amherst, Bowdoin, UPenn
DS is in touch with coaches at all 4 schools and from Cornell heard that he will have a spot on the team if he clears admissions.
Anonymous
01/09/2025 16:02
Subject: Re:What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why? Why are you curious? Why does it matter to you? what information will this provide?
Posts like this were helpful to me last year in finding ideas to bring to our kid’s attention. So I’ll add ours in case they’re helpful to others. Obviously the categories depend on the acceptance history of your child’s HS, and clearly my kid only considered urban/quasi-urban locations.
Reach: UChicago, Columbia, Penn
Target: Michigan, NYU, Boston U
Safety: Toronto, Pitt, Minnesota
You'll have to come back and let us know how this goes, especially for BU. I thought BU was a target for my kid too last year. He ended up being accepted at 3 T10s and WL at BU
Anonymous
01/09/2025 15:53
Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
UMDCP is only a tough admit for certain subjects.