@Pacifico I might get a score that is good enough for acceptance but I am aiming for some specific scholarships that call for higher scores. Should I still submit my applications before the end of this year?
I'm spending it making a pros and cons list for Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Full-ride Columbia, Chicago, and NYU, fully knowing it will soon become a useless file.
@as5324therapy they want to keep their acceptance % low, this may be a factor in the USNEWS ranking so obviously schools will do their best to rank as high as possible.
I wouldn't write anything until you're ready to negotiate, accept or withdraw. I never responded to a school after acceptance and scholarship offer and then they randomly gave me an unsolicited increase from $15k/yr to $25k/yr.
I see. So, if you have won an Olympic gold medal, a Rhodes, are a Navy SEAL, have a 4.0, and 179 you actually may not get accepted at say, NYU, with the thinking that you are likely to get HYS and will take one of those?