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Originally Posted by techforn10
Can you please tell me which are safe and ambitious from the above list?
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I really don't know enough about PhD admissions to comment, though I think it's a good list for now. Regarding California Institute of Technology, I did get the impression somewhere that they are even more selective than their rank would indicate. For all I know, it may even be possible that it's easier to get into Berkeley than CIT.
I did see at TheGradCafe.com where one guy who was admitted to Stanford and Berkeley was rejected from University of Washington. That seems to be a good, though possibly uncommon, example of the unpredictability of top PhD admissions.