Dilemma
Here's my dilemma: applications are getting more competitive. I believe I am a good applicant and my grades are great yada yada yada. However, it's a crapshoot of where I'll get in. If I ED to Boston College (semi target), I have a very high chance of getting in. If I don't ED I have a very, very low chance. I could also EDII, but then I risk a lower shot. EDI is a 41% acceptance rate, EDII is like 37? Or 30 I've heard both… But also I'm applying CSOM which is the most competitive one. I could also apply EDI to a school like Cornell/Dartmouth/Duke which are targets but obviously very difficult to get into. My shot is 20% at each, but obviously applicant pool is much tougher plus that high acceptance rate is also due to legacies and athletes. Duke/Cornell are on the more expensive side while Dartmouth is cheaper but they take 500 people ED, Cornell is like 2k but 9000 apply, and Duke is in between with 800-900 accepted with 4k apps. My end goal is PM at a tech company/consulting/FA/banking (wide range ik, but PM is the main one). Should I apply EDI BC? Or EDII? I am a girl so I apparently am diversity for banking if that's relevant at all…
"20% at each" dawg I know a girl who got into HARVARD and a full ride at Vanderbilt who was rejected from Duke and Cornell. U got a 3% chance and that's only if ur good enough to apply. ED1 and ED2 aren't too much different at BC, but if you want the full ride scholarship at BC u can only get that by applying ED1. College admissions are the most random shits that exist- I got a full ride from a non-target state school, rejected by some semi-targets, and into some targets. Shit's a wild mothafuckin ride
I know that, I'm just saying I have roughly the same acceptance rate at all three and therefore it won't really matter unlike a school like CMU which doesn't really care about ED. She probably got yield protected lol. I know I have very little chance despite good ECs/awards/grades and my strength is writing but I still think taking a risk is dumb af especially during this season so I want to know if I should just EDI BC and leave it. BC isn't easy to get into as the only person I know who got in was cracked as hell and picked BC over some even higher ranked options. All the other semi targets are OOS publics and I’m not paying that much lmfaooo.
Bruh there’s billions of galaxies out there, each one possibly having trillions of forms of life. Our own planet has almost 8 billion people. And ur worried about going to a semi target versus a target for a career that contributes nothing to society that we all kill each other for
What a shithole the world is
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To be vague, perfect grades, difficult classes, decent SAT score (would submit to BC but not other schools), some state/national awards/rankings. A lot of leadership and some good internships and that kinda thing. Basically your average target applicant. Essays will definitely be good. My biggest problem is that I’m OOS for all the public targets which means awful aid which means I basically won’t apply. As for what you suggested, I like most of those schools but I like that BC has better proximity to financial districts. I love basically everything about BC but I’m nervous, like you said, that I’m undershooting.
If you're like the average target applicant then I would definitely ED to some target or T25. While admissions are very competitive you should most likely make it somewhere if you apply to a bunch of places. Like you just need 1 acceptance. Why don't you ED Duke, Cornell, NYU Stern, or Northwestern then if you really want to ED2 do it to BC otherwise just ED1 to one of those places and apply to a shit ton RD. Apply to most Ivy+schools, NYU, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory, Vanderbilt, CMU, USC, BC, IU Kelley(guaranteed admission and you'll probably get a scholarship), Amherst, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Williams, Washington and Lee. I wouldn't rule out publics tbh because they do have some good scholarship programs like Echols at UVA or Morehead at UNC. Go for Berkeley, Michigan, UVA, UNC, UT. However its obviously your call at the end of the day. I'm writing such a long response because I've seen several people heavily regret undershooting during ED and you don't want to feel that.
TLDR- Shoot your shot ED1 and apply to a shit ton of schools like the ones mentioned above and you'll probably get in somewhere. Since you have IU Kelley, you don't really need any other safeties so you can apply to like 20-25 schools that are actually very good.
Since when did this site become college confidential lmao
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