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Originally Posted by Cory
Not to discourage anyone or anything, but those of you applying to *just* Stanford, MIT, UCB, etc, I would apply to a school you know you can get into 100% for a backup. You never know who Stanford's gonna pick. The UC's arent admitting many many over qualified people at this point in time, and I'm sure the Ivy League schools are like Stanford.
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Yeah, I know all of my schools are big reaches. The closest to safety schools I have are California State Polytechnic Institute in San Luis Obispo (State school but #1 architecture program in the nation) and then the next one up on my safety list is UCB.
So, seriously, I know I need a guarantee backup, just not sure which one yet.
Oh and check this site out:
CollegeData.com. You can enter your SAT scores and GPA and all that and see what chances you have of getting into certain colleges. It'd be really interesting to see current colleges put in their high school information, and see what they'd get for their current school.
My rankings are:
MIT - Low Good Bet
CalTech - High Maybe
GaTech - Middle Good Bet
CalPoly SLO - High Good Bet
UC Berkeley - High Maybe
Harvard - Low Good Bet
Princeton - Low Good Bet
Stanford - Low Good Bet
Cornell - Low Good Bet
Yale - Low Good Bet
Of course, my rankings are a little low because I couldn't enter my real GPA. It puts it on a regular scale of 4.0, I'm in International Baccalaureate with all honors courses, straight As, which makes my GPA 5.0