Is this a good school list or should I add more?
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Even with good stats the process can be really random. You’re right that you’re relatively competitive but realistically, you probably have no idea how good of an interviewee you are and that prevents high-stat applicants from getting accepted all the time, so it’s better to be safe than sorry. That being said, you probably don’t need to apply to that many schools with your stats. I would definitely remove USC and NYU since they’re insanely expensive and maybe replace them with one cheaper private school or OOS-friendly state school where you’d be a top-tier applicant, though Temple and Tufts might already cover that.
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I think your list is fine. Take off NYU and USC.
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Are there no hopes of getting some sort of scholarship for these schools?
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Thank you for the advice, I am pretty confident that I will interview well. I have a couple years of experience in sales so I'd like to think I'm comfortable communicating with people. If I just take USC and NYU off, you think I'm good to go?
i'd say your odds are way better that you get into a cheaper school than to get a scholarship at those schools
It’s actually private schools like the Ivies that are known for big scholarships cause they want students with high stats to attend to keep their numbers up, from what I’ve always seen here on SDN anyway. Even with scholarships USC and NYU will be more expensive than pretty much any other school.
You may think you’re good at communicating, but you have no idea at all if you’re good at communicating the exact way each of those schools want you to, hence the element of randomness. I thought I was too and in one of my interviews I watched the guy mark me as a 2/5 in “personable” or something like that right in front of me after what I thought was a totally normal polite greeting.
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Great advice, thank you. Will my PAT score be a problem? Is it something I will need to explain during an interview?
Only if they ask about it. Even a 19 is above average overall. There’s only a few schools that care a lot about the PAT, and even they will care a lot more about a 24AA and 26 TS. I promise you can take it easy a little bit haha, you don’t have anything to worry about.
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Even with scholarships the cost of these schools are obscene.
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