Comments on: PENN/COLUMBIA with these? http://medic-tips.com/penncolumbia-with-these/ Your healt counselor Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:12:38 -0500 hourly 1 By: Bill http://medic-tips.com/penncolumbia-with-these/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Bill Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:07:40 +0000 http://medic-tips.com/penncolumbia-with-these/#comment-620 Yes you have a good shot. Not a shoe in mind, no one is at schools like that. To understand why check out: http://susankayton.com/college.htm 'Twenty years ago, it was pretty easy to predict which students would be admitted, since the highly-selective colleges admitted about 1/3 of the applicants. All the bright, interesting kids were admitted back then. However, nowadays, colleges no longer have room for all the bright, interesting kids since about five times as many kids apply for the same number of slots, so luck plays a huge factor. If you play tuba and the school's marching band's only tuba player is graduating in June, you might get admitted! Or they might be looking for a baritone for the men's a capella group. Or perhaps they need someone from Wyoming so they can boast they have a student from each of the 50 states. Or you juggle and the admissions officer who's reading your application also is a juggler, so he gives you the thumbs-up. If you get in, you aren't "better" than the kids who don't get in - you're just luckier.' But overall I would say you have as good a shot is anyone. The best advice I can give you however is to apply to a few such schools. While getting into any one is a crap shoot, with excellent grades like yours you will get into a great school for sure. I don't know why, but for some reason Cal-tech, which is rated as least as good as Penn and Columbia, has a 17% chance of admission compared to the below 10% of Penn and Columbia. It would be an excellent choice as well for biomedical engineering. http://www.caltech.edu/ Another excellent choice would be Harvey Mudd and Reed: http://www.hmc.edu/ http://web.reed.edu/ So widen your choice and you will be fine. Also check out: http://www.enotalone.com/article/18690.html Thanks Bill Yes you have a good shot. Not a shoe in mind, no one is at schools like that. To understand why check out:
http://susankayton.com/college.htm
'Twenty years ago, it was pretty easy to predict which students would be admitted, since the highly-selective colleges admitted about 1/3 of the applicants. All the bright, interesting kids were admitted back then. However, nowadays, colleges no longer have room for all the bright, interesting kids since about five times as many kids apply for the same number of slots, so luck plays a huge factor. If you play tuba and the school's marching band's only tuba player is graduating in June, you might get admitted! Or they might be looking for a baritone for the men's a capella group. Or perhaps they need someone from Wyoming so they can boast they have a student from each of the 50 states. Or you juggle and the admissions officer who's reading your application also is a juggler, so he gives you the thumbs-up. If you get in, you aren't "better" than the kids who don't get in – you're just luckier.'

But overall I would say you have as good a shot is anyone.

The best advice I can give you however is to apply to a few such schools. While getting into any one is a crap shoot, with excellent grades like yours you will get into a great school for sure. I don't know why, but for some reason Cal-tech, which is rated as least as good as Penn and Columbia, has a 17% chance of admission compared to the below 10% of Penn and Columbia. It would be an excellent choice as well for biomedical engineering.
http://www.caltech.edu/

Another excellent choice would be Harvey Mudd and Reed:
http://www.hmc.edu/
http://web.reed.edu/

So widen your choice and you will be fine.

Also check out:
http://www.enotalone.com/article/18690.html

Thanks
Bill

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