<p>I’m not really sure what my top choice school is. I’m applying to a bunch of really selective schools, so i’ve decided to try not to fall in love with a particular school until i found out if i’m accepted or not.</p>
<p>that being said, MIT would probably be the most painful rejection. but let’s not think about that!</p>
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This is, I think, the optimal philosophy to have.</p>
<p>Agree with mollie and dancemuse. I just wish I’d figured that out before falling in love with MIT. But I think it’ll be easier to detach if I actually get the rejection letter - as of now I still have hope. ;)</p>
<p>If I don’t have a break with reality before the decisions come out, I’ll consider it a success, regardless of the outcome.</p>
<p>actually, I have days where I feel really optimistic in addition to days where I feel like I’m never getting in anywhere. Does anyone else have that too, or do you all feel the same all the time?</p>
<p>lol i’ve had those days… which is why i’ve applied to like 5 safe schools :)</p>
<p>@dancemuse5
i wish i could say that i have not completely fallen in love with MIT… :-(</p>
<p>with that out of the way. i’m already nervous… man. i thought i wouldn’t be nervous until late november/early december… i can’t even imagine how nerve-wrecking it will be when i’m actually checking my decision. :-/</p>
<p>I think we’re all that nervous. 
I don’t know if you can tell, but my resolution not to think about MIT until around December 10th has failed rather miserably.</p>
<p>out of curiousity, where else are you guys applying?</p>
<p>caltech, harvard, duke, notre dame, northwestern college (small school in minnesota), wooster, and minnesota</p>
<p>Hopefully nowhere else if I get into MIT EA =]</p>
<p>Caltech and Princeton. 3 UC’s (Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSB?)</p>
<p>Oh maybe Stanford</p>
<p>i’m applying at MIT, notre dame, princeton, harvard, northwestern, emory, vanderbilt, wash u st. louis, and clemson.</p>
<p>take a wild guess at which one’s my safety! :P</p>
<p>dancemuse - I know. It’s Harvard for sure. :]</p>
<p>MIT, Caltech, Stanford, UCLA, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Swarthmore, RPI, Whitman, Tufts, Occidental. </p>
<p>I would drop Occidental, Tufts, Whitman, and Swarthmore off the list instantly if I get into MIT EA, just because those are second-level schools in terms of my interest and if I get into MIT then that is like a safety mechanism of a school that I really like. Then I can be choosy about whether I want to even apply to some other schools. A lot kinda depends on how my baseball situation works out. I wouldn’t play at UCLA or Stanford, and I’d walk-on or have a spot at the others.</p>
<p>MIT is about ranked 10th out of 16 colleges I’m applying to.</p>
<p>Eh, not in love, just wanted an early response</p>
<p>lol the thing that kept me from applying to more than 7 or 8 schools has been the application essays… i’ve expressed my interest in math and science so why must they pain my by forcing me to write so much??? lol, glad it’s over</p>
<p>Definitely nowhere else if I get in EA, but if I don’t:
Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Stanford, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, Boston U, Northeastern, RPI.</p>
<p>MIT, yale, princeton, penn, cornell, carnegie mellon, u of c, case western Ohio State (go bucks!)</p>
<p>MIT is definitely head and shoulders above everything else…</p>
<p>Stanford, HMC, Columbia, RPI, GIT, U of Chicago, UCLA, Yale, Cornell.</p>
<p>If I get in EA to MIT, I’m not applying to any of them.</p>