Highly Selective Schools
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Highly selective schools are roughly schools ranked 20-50 in the country. They are some of the most selective schools in the country. If you are at this level of selectivity, that means that our team of college admissions experts think that you have a good chance to get into some schools in this group assuming you apply to several of them and keep up the same level until you graduate. Of course, no one knows for sure what schools you will get into (and don’t believe anyone who tells you they do) except the admissions officer reading your application. So, we always recommend students apply to several colleges at both lower levels and higher levels than the one they are tracking to (in addition to several in their tier).
Schools at this level of selectivity include
University of Southern California
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Virginia
Wake Forest University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Tufts University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
New York University
University of California-Santa Barbara
University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Brandeis University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Boston College
College of William and Mary
University of California-Davis
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University