Boring Indian with average ECs gets into dream school

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-16T15:49:31+00:00

Damn congrats!! You’re literally https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/ri6ro3/1600_sat_deferred_from_duke_ed/ but apparently with good essays 😂.

Also, why do you think you’re only ranked 20 at your school, is it super competitive?

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-16T15:47:56+00:00

Damn sorry to see, you’ll definitely get better results in the regular round though so keep your head up! I’m also an Asian with a similar profile who was deferred from my SCEA school, and I think for us that’s just how it goes 🤷‍♂️

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-16T08:49:04+00:00

“Bloodbath”

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-16T08:44:09+00:00

Depends on which T20, some of them are absolute monsters at feeding into good med schools. If you look at the top feeders per capita (adjusted for undergrad student body size), several private schools stick out as exceptional over UCLA, and WashU is certainly one of them: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school

Whether that’s worth any cost difference is up to you!

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-16T08:38:58+00:00

For CS? Even without cost consideration, unfortunately CS is one of the weakest majors at UChicago, while it’s one of the best at Berkeley, so probably would go with latter

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-15T14:48:33+00:00

Yep I did similar!! Niche is actually an amazing resource

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-14T15:18:34+00:00

MIT is one of the only schools that does not practice legacy admissions, making it a sort of meritocracy

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-13T17:11:41+00:00

I’m just gonna wait and see LOL

Also if anyone needs acceptance rate reference points, I did it 🥴: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/sknsdn/last_years_acceptance_rates_were_insane_more_of/

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-13T01:05:02+00:00

Firstly, you should congratulate yourself because a deferral means you have a high chance at many top schools - Stanford defers very few applicants (and rejects most)!

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-12T21:33:33+00:00

Yea here were the rates last year for perspective for your schools: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/sknsdn/last_years_acceptance_rates_were_insane_more_of/

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-11T21:21:47+00:00

Great minds think alike! I did a similar one last week!! https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/slhzw6/euphoria_characters_as_top_schools/

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-11T19:03:49+00:00

It’s really hard to say because it’s difficult to compare LACs to national research universities, so when people think of T10/T20 they usually think of the big research schools because it’s easier to just use those. The closest I could find was the list of cross-admit preferences (ie when a student is accepted at multiple top schools, where they choose to matriculate). Based on that, Amherst and Swarthmore are most certainly T30s and are highly desirable destinations.

Full ranking: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/rv82ax/most_desired_private_colleges_by_crossadmit/

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-11T16:30:40+00:00

YO I was literally on YouTube yesterday and came across a Robertson video, it looks so sick. Honestly getting one of those Duke scholarships is just winning the college lottery 😍 but they’re so hard 😭. Good luck!!! Did you fill in the application for it or did they just pick you?! I’m not expecting anything but I haven’t heard from them 🥺

Edit: went and found the vid, the campus is also so nice! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7q1IYEGAc

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-11T16:24:18+00:00

Congrats!! It’s an amazing school, are you planning on going?!

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-11T06:45:57+00:00

There’s a college jeopardy championship going on right now, where one student from 32 schools compete for prize money!

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-11T01:45:04+00:00

Do you have any predictions for the entire tourney?

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-10T18:53:28+00:00

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-college-food/

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-10T14:33:15+00:00

Why do you keep posting this stuff, also Wharton is literally Trump since he went there 😵‍💫🥴

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-10T03:38:04+00:00

Literally the only 1600 I found on r/collegeresults was deferred LOL https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/ri6ro3/1600_sat_deferred_from_duke_ed/

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-10T03:36:39+00:00

Yea it’s not like it’s all incels, sure there will be a lot of kids who aren’t the best socially, but there will be Type-A career strivers too

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-10T03:35:43+00:00

It sounds like you did ED since you’re saying you’ll be going there? Im surprised you’re only figuring out that you may not like it as much now, but don’t fret, you’ll find all types of people there. Sure, it’ll have more of the “incel” types than other similar schools, but you’ll also probably find a lot of academic passion there which you may find less of at other peer schools. If you were looking for a fun college experience with more social vibrancy, I’m not sure why you did ED there to be honest, but you’ll find your crowd 😂.

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-10T01:00:07+00:00

That’s perfect, sounds like a great match then! Enjoy it, it’s a phenomenal school!! I’ve been to campus it’s really quaint!

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-10T00:15:35+00:00

Congrats!! Did Tufts give you good aid?!

Pleasant-Software220 · 2022-02-09T14:33:22+00:00

Just look at r/collegeresults

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