<p>PRetty much the opposite of the post below, my mom is yelling at me because I am not applying to enough schools.</p>
<p>UMD College Park (in state) Safety
UCLA target
Georgetown low reach
Columbia or Brown high reach</p>
<p>Without knowing your stats, I like the advice of applying to two safeties so that if all else fails you still have a choice. Add a safety. Make your mom happy. She gave you life.</p>
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<p>soooo true. Try to find a match or two. UCLA can be a toughie.</p>
<p>Plus, since you are out of state for UCLA it almost automatically becomes at the very least a low reach. OOS admissions can be bizarre and much more difficult.</p>
<p>why not university of virginia instead of UCLA or in addition to UCLA?</p>
<p>Bear in mind that getting into UCLA is going to be tougher than ever next year, as the UCs are cutting freshman enrollment.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with most of the aforementioned sentiment. So many kids I know only applied to HYP … & State. And they ended up bummed out because the only choice they had at the end of the process was State.</p>
<p>I’m curious what your deciding qualities were. Columbia and Brown have VERY different curricula. Brown is open whereas Columbia is quite strict with its CORE.</p>
<p>Georgetown can be tricky too, especially when you are in Maryland. I agree with those who suggest two more matches or another match and another safety.</p>
<p>If you were my kid, I’d be delighted with this short list of yours. The only addition that I would insist on is that you research the community colleges in Maryland and pick one for your absolute financial and admissions safety. Since you like U of MD, any one of the community colleges would serve as decent (and in the case of Montgomery College better than decent) places to get the first two years out of the way before transfering elsewhere in the public system to finish. </p>
<p>Since you don’t say anything about how much money you have for college, or about what you want to study in college, or what you want to do for fun in college (are sports important? frats/sororities?) it’s hard to advise further. Your mom may just be suffering from a bad case of keeping-up-with-her-crazed-PTA-pals, or she may actually have your best interests in mind. Have you asked her why exactly it is that she thinks you need a longer list?</p>
<p>I would be OK with this list, assuming you would be really, really happy to go to Maryland. If any of those other schools are the places you really want to go, you don’t have enough, and you don’t have enough of a range. (I’m assuming Maryland really is a safety for you–for many instate kids, it’s knowable.)</p>
<p>you can certainly handle more, but if you don’t want to don’t. i know kids who applied to only 1.</p>