Tier 1 합격률 10%미만 학교 - 최고 명문대


Stanford, Havard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, UChicago, Columbia, Brown, Northwestern, Upenn, Darthmouth, Duke, Vanderbilt, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Rice


Tier 2 합격률 20%미만 - still highly competitive, but less so than tier 1 (여기까진 명문대)


USC, WashU, Tufts, Tulane, NYU, BU, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, Notre Dame, Emory, UVA, Wake Forest, UT Austin College of Natural Sciences, BC, Georgia Tech, William and Mary, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, University of Rochester 



Tier 3 합격률 35% 미만 - 좋은 학교지만 들어가긴 어렵지 않은 학교들


UT Austin college of liberal arts, Villanova, Northeastern, Case Western Reserve, Occidental, Washington and Lee, Babson college, Virginia Tech, UCSD, Lafayette college, UIUC, University of Florida


Tier 4 합격률 35%이상 - 보통 대부분 학생들이 safety로 많이 지원하는 학교, 


Pennstate, Trinity University, SMU, Texas Christian University, UCSB, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UT Dallas, Texas A&M, Purdue, Rutgers, Temple, University of Maryland, Whitter, Fordham, and most flagship universities in state system.