Did anyone actually make it into a reach school? Forum

[ArtVandelay]

I applied to 6 of the T14 and pretty much every school from 15-25. I got into every school from USC down, and rejected from everywhere above. Did most people experience the same thing? Do admissions usually follow US News so strictly?

[ricking1288]

what were ur stats?

[chanchito]

lol so far mine have been all over the place, but no reach yet. (law school predictor was bad for me)

[smov_operator]

I've been lucky this cycle.

Reaches: Stanford, Columbia, NYU, CHicago, Berkeley
Almost 50/50 chance schools: Penn, Duke, Georgetown, UCLA, USC

[BioEBear2010]

Reaches do happen. Just look at LSN.

[dakatz]

I didn't get into a single school that LSP listed as "consider". Here were some of the results, and the one surprising acceptance among the carnage of my T-14 applications.

Columbia (Rejection)
Chicago (Accepted)
Penn (Rejection)
Michigan (Waitlist)
Duke (Waitlist)
Northwestern (Rejection)
Virginia (Rejection)
Cornell (Accepted)
Georgetown (Rejection)

I sort of expected a Cornell acceptance, but the Chicago one was a HUGE reach for me. I honestly only applied since the fee was waived and still can't believe they took a chance on me. Shame the rest didn't turn out as well.