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SAT 1450
10 of your 13 slots are aimed at schools that admit under 15%. Each one of those is worth a slot. 10 of them are not worth 10.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology admits 4.6%. That is worth one of your slots on its own merits — it is the 10-deep repeat of the same bet that is not.
No school on the list admits most of the people who apply to it. Adding one or two gives every other choice on this page room to be ambitious.
19.5% → 6.8%
Chance that every school on this list says no, before and after the two anchors below.
This multiplies each school’s published admit rate as if the decisions were independent. They are not — the same transcript is read by every office — so treat it as a read on the shape of the list, not a forecast about you.
4.6% admitted
Your 1450 is below the admitted middle 50% at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1520–1580).
Family income $75k–$110k: $11,555/yr · sticker $82,730/yr
This school does not report an Early Decision breakdown, so no ED advantage is claimed for it.
3.6% admitted
Your 1450 is below the admitted middle 50% at Stanford University (1510–1580).
Family income $75k–$110k: $11,092/yr · sticker $82,162/yr
This school does not report an Early Decision breakdown, so no ED advantage is claimed for it.
3.9% admitted
Your 1450 is below the admitted middle 50% at Yale University (1470–1570).
Family income $75k–$110k: $12,558/yr · sticker $85,120/yr
This school does not report an Early Decision breakdown, so no ED advantage is claimed for it.
5.7% admitted
Your 1450 is below the admitted middle 50% at Duke University (1500–1570).
Family income $75k–$110k: $17,100/yr · sticker $87,072/yr
This school does not report an Early Decision breakdown, so no ED advantage is claimed for it.
7.7% admitted
Your 1450 is below the admitted middle 50% at Northwestern University (1510–1570).
Family income $75k–$110k: $18,282/yr · sticker $87,804/yr
Northwestern University admitted 23.0% of Early Decision applicants against 5.9% of everyone else — a 3.9x difference (2024-2025 Common Data Set).
8.8% admitted
Your 1450 is below the admitted middle 50% at Cornell University (1500–1570).
Family income $75k–$110k: $14,311/yr · sticker $88,140/yr
Cornell University admitted 11.6% of Early Decision applicants against 7.8% of everyone else — a 1.5x difference (2024-2025 Common Data Set).
9.2% admitted
Your 1450 is below the admitted middle 50% at New York University (1480–1560).
Family income $75k–$110k: $32,766/yr · sticker $84,374/yr
This school does not report an Early Decision breakdown, so no ED advantage is claimed for it.
10.7% admitted
Your 1450 is below the admitted middle 50% at Emory University (1470–1550).
Family income $75k–$110k: $13,821/yr · sticker $83,622/yr
Emory University admitted 22.2% of Early Decision applicants against 8.6% of everyone else — a 2.6x difference (2025-2026 Common Data Set).
5.2% admitted
Your 1450 sits inside the admitted middle 50% at Northeastern University (1440–1540).
Family income $75k–$110k: $16,241/yr · sticker $84,641/yr
Northeastern University admitted 43.1% of Early Decision applicants against 3.8% of everyone else — a 11.2x difference (2024-2025 Common Data Set).
11.1% admitted
Your 1450 sits inside the admitted middle 50% at Boston University (1420–1530).
Family income $75k–$110k: $22,517/yr · sticker $86,285/yr
Boston University admitted 31.4% of Early Decision applicants against 11.0% of everyone else — a 2.8x difference (2025-2026 Common Data Set).
15.6% admitted
Your 1450 sits inside the admitted middle 50% at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1360–1530).
Family income $75k–$110k: $10,869/yr · sticker $33,345/yr
This school does not report an Early Decision breakdown, so no ED advantage is claimed for it.
24.2% admitted
Your 1450 sits inside the admitted middle 50% at University of Florida (1320–1480).
Family income $75k–$110k: $12,905/yr · sticker $22,523/yr
This school does not report an Early Decision breakdown, so no ED advantage is claimed for it.
36.5% admitted
Your 1450 sits inside the admitted middle 50% at Case Western Reserve University (1430–1540).
Family income $75k–$110k: $26,159/yr · sticker $85,851/yr
Case Western Reserve University admitted 25.0% of Early Decision applicants against 35.6% of everyone else — a 0.7x difference (2025-2026 Common Data Set).
Average paid by students receiving federal aid, by family income (College Scorecard). International students are not eligible for U.S. federal aid, so they are not in this cohort and typically pay closer to the sticker price.
7 of 13 schools had at least one figure withheld for missing data. Those gaps are printed on the cards above rather than filled in.
3 schools below your score and below the median price of what you already chose. Take 2 of them and keep everything else exactly as it is.
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Sealed 2026-08-15T00:00:00.000Z
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