<p>What is your favorite school, that you applied to, after UChicago?</p>
<p>Or, in the bizarre case that UChicago is not your first choice college, what is?</p>
<p>I haven't applied yet I'm a junior, but after Chicago I really like Columbia (haha to most people that would be backwards) and also St. Johns College (the Annapolis campus).</p>
<p>Second choice- Michigan State</p>
<p>Polar opposites, I know. </p>
<p>MSU is winning me over with its scholarships.</p>
<p>MIT is my first choice college, but I haven't a chance in hell. Chicago probably ties for second on my list with Caltech, and you may all now laugh at how my college list is very obviously a list of complete opposites. ;)</p>
<p>Barnard College...a pretty close second, but if I get into Chicago I know I'll go.</p>
<p>Chicago, JHU and Michigan are all tied 1st :)
If i got denied at all 3, I'd be verrrrrrry sad.
If I got accepted at all 3, and I had to choose, I wouldn't really be able to. My parents will probably try to push me into Michigan because it's cheaper than the rest. Michigan doesnt really fit in with the other 2 schools but yeah... I love it. And chicago. And jhu.</p>
<p>I don't rank my schools individually, but these are the general categories...</p>
<p>First choice: Chicago, Princeton
Second choice: Amherst, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Williams
Third choice: Bryn Mawr, Macalester, Wellesley</p>
<p>It really depends on financial aid awards, though.</p>
<p>^DannonWater, there are a lot worse 2nd choices (to UC) than MSU, lol.</p>
<p>True. My initial reaction to college choices was Chicago or Bust.
My true second choice is UMich- but that is far to pricey for my being out of state and is thrown out because 40k a year is far too much. I did apply to a community college in New York (I live in Chicago). That would be a worse 2nd. </p>
<p>NoFX- Chicago pays 100% need. Even if your family makes a decent amount of money you can still get a large grant from chicago. Even family incomes of 100,000 receive an average of 24k a year. If you haven't- check Chicago's Financial Aid site. They have a calculator to figure out how much you will most likely get.</p>
<p>^
I don't want to pop bubbles, but 100% of need doesn't always make it affordable. I chose my second choice because Chicago</a> was too expensive, even with financial aid.</p>
<p>^C'mon, DannonWater, what's so great about U-M? I mean, even you have decided it's not worth the Ivy-like prices they charge... and on the other extreme, I seriously doubt you are community college material judging at the quality of schools you are looking at. Besides, you wouldn't travel 800+ miles to go to one, anyway. I'm sure your a better quality student than that...</p>
<p>true- but it helps bring the cost down. Sorry that yours was not enough.</p>
<p>Dannonwater, I didn't apply for financial aid since I'm an international student and if I did, my chances would've gone down the drain haha</p>
<p>I studied for a summer at UMich- got to know a bunch of profs and the campus really well. I know a lot of people going there and I got attached. Their focus on research also intrigues me. </p>
<p>Ok.. so it was not a community college- but it felt close to it. It is an environmental school out in NY- SUNY-EFS. I applied because I had no clue where I stood when I was applying for schools. My college counselor told me I could never get into any of them. Luckily I didn't listen to him. I applied to a whole range of schools (feeling broke from all the fees) and when i got in my counselor said- I knew you could do it. <em>rolls my eyes</em></p>
<p>If I didn't get accepted,
I planned to apply to Reed, UT Plan II, Mcgill, St Johns College, Columbia, NYU, Pomona, MIT, Swarthmore. I would be happy to go to any of these schools,
but I'm thrilled about University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Dannonwater,
my guidance counselor also told me I wouldn't get accepted at some point.</p>
<p>If everyone listened to his or her counselor- we'd all be crazy.</p>
<p>My university counselor told me that all colleges give merit scholarships except the Ivies (patently untrue), and that it would be a good idea for me to apply to public universities (nonsensical, considering I'm out of state everywhere and don't qualify for financial aid because I'm not a US citizen). She was pessimistic about my chances to begin with, stopping just short of calling me an elitist, arrogant prestige whore with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement, but now she's more optimistic than I am, saying that Wellesley is a safety and Chicago a match. I don't really listen to what she says anymore. I think I'm better off.</p>
<p>For the record, this is at a $25,000/year private high school.</p>
<p>Well, I do love Chicago, but there is a reason it is called the Ivy Safety.
Princeton is my number one choice, and Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, and Rice w/ money will get considerable consideration.</p>
<p>Davnasca: My d's boyfriend is a freshman at St. Johns in Annapolis and loves it.</p>