<p>New list, though this is also subject to change:</p>
<p>Yale
Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Harvard
Columbia
UC Berkeley
UPenn
Cornell
Chicago
Georgetown
Brown
USC (CA)
Hopkins
NYU
UIUC
UMich - AA
Brandeis
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
George Washington
Rutgers</p>
<p>Haha I need to cut that down...</p>
<p>Princeton & MIT are definitely my top choices! (Definitely Reaches)<br>
The others are:
Harvard (Reach)
Duke (Slight Reach)
Stanford (Reach)
CalTech (Reach)
Johns Hopkins (Match)
U of Chicago (Match)
U-Penn (Reach)
Columbia (Reach)
Cornell (Match)
Carnegie Mellon (Match)
U of Michigan (Slight Match/Safety)
Notre Dame (Slight Match)
SUNY Binghamton (Safety)
SUNY Stonybrook (Safety)</p>
<p>Am thinking of doing Princeton ED.... then if Deferral/Rejection comes, Spring 2007 will be an interesting season.</p>
<p>OK I think I've finally figured it out.</p>
<p>Reaches:
Stanford - SCEA
Cornell (tied for first choice with Stanford)
Yale
Brown
Pomona</p>
<p>More Realistic:
Chicago
NYU
Michigan
William and Mary</p>
<p>Safeties:
Michigan State
Indiana
Macalester</p>
<p>Other schools I'm considering (will be visiting):
Vassar
Wesleyan
Oberlin
maybe Grinnell</p>
<p>I'm getting closer to my final list
Reaches
-Cornell
-MIT
-Cooper Union
-Olin</p>
<p>Matches
-Brandeis
-University of Michigan?</p>
<p>Safeties
-University of Washington
-Washington State University</p>
<p>I'm in the class of 2009, but I'm posting anyway.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard (A genuine dream since 5th grade. I'm not a pathetic dreamer like most of my peers; I work hard. I want to be a lawyer/politician, and maybe I'll get admitted into the stellar law school if not undergraduate. I bet you the admission rate will drop to 5% come my time to apply...). If I got admitted to any other Ivies, then I guess they'd replace Harvard if I didn't get accepted there.</li>
<li>University of California at Berkeley. High Asian population. I'm Asian, so that's wonderful. But other than that, it's a very good school that earns my admiration.</li>
<li>University of California at Los Angeles. I am fascinated with California. </li>
<li>Stanford. Kudos to California!</li>
<li>Rice University. It's only four hours away. But then again, I want to get out of Texas as soon as possible.</li>
<li>Vanderbilt. Nashville has always appealed to me.</li>
<li>Amherst. Something intrigues me about the East coast.</li>
<li>Pomona. </li>
<li>University of Texas at Austin, which is my safety. But I'd hate to go there along with everyone else.</li>
</ol>
<p>Stanford, MIT, and Caltech</p>
<p>Is IIT ( Indian Institue of technology) better than MIT? I heard it is like MIT in competitiveness</p>
<p>I'm hoping to go to UofM-Ann Arbor...but in other schools i like are
UIUC
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>...yeah...I definetly need more reach + safety schools...<em>shrug</em>...anyone know any other good engineering schools that arent ungodly hard to get into?</p>
<p>excel:
Search among the posts of shash_rao for the answer.</p>
<p>o MIT - but doubtful as i've been screwed beyond belief these past two years</p>
<p>o UC Berkeley - may be a possibility as coincidentally, my dad just finally got back from unemployment, and the job's in CA. the timing is just enough for me to be considered in-state when i start apps. again, totally coincidental and the idea of in-state only arose when we first starting to realize that we'd need to move. i'm not sure about how my chances are affected by the fact that i'll be an asian male in CA, though.</p>
<p>o Olin? - just found out about them and they sound interesting. I have no idea about its competitiveness, but from the looks of it and its size i suspect they are probably no cake either.</p>
<p>o UW - probably a safety. it's also huge though, which eh. i don't know.</p>
<p>o Carnegie Mellon / Cornell - meh. I need to read up on them more, and I'm just not sure about them in general. I think they're decent.</p>
<p>i obsses about this constantly but my top schools are:
1. Stanford (my DREAM)
2. U of CA at Berkely (my 2nd dream)
3. Brown
4. Harvard (its great if i get in, but i really don't think i'll be able to)
5. U Penn!!! ( and my 3rd dream)
6. UVA (but i don't wanna be in state with everyone else..same people, same drama.)</p>
<p>cooper union or Olin</p>
<p>Caltech/MIT if for some miraculous reason they decide to give me a full ride! otherwise, no</p>
<p>You know, I was wondering, how do you all make your choices as to Universities, I'm an Int'l student, and from the internet sites I've visited, its a really perplexing job to decide where to apply.</p>
<p>I mean, obviously, I've heard of HYPMS, the other Ivys, Rice, Caltech, GeorgiaTech, Michigan et al through some of my friends who've been accepted to these, but what else is out there? (apart from little green men that is :) )</p>
<p>It amazes me how so many of you have such high goals. I'm going to be a bit more realistic ;)</p>
<p>1.)SUNY Oswego
2.)Plymouth State University
3.)Lyndon State College
4, 5, and 6 would be Oneonta, Brockport and Cornell, but I would probably only apply to them if I didn't get into Oswego.</p>
<p>Reaches
Harvard (SCEA)
Princeton
Yale
Dartmouth</p>
<p>Match - Reach
UCLA
UC Berkeley</p>
<p>Match
UC Santa Barbara
UC Irvine</p>
<p>Safety
I have a garanteed admission to a UC</p>
<p>I REALLY want to go east, so I need to look at more easy-to-get-into east coast colleges (that sure isn't half of the ivy league).</p>
<p>CalSci</p>
<p>Professor Charlie Eppes is dr3amy.</p>
<p>First Choice: Grinnell College
Second Choice: Vassar College
Third Choice: Oberlin College
Fourth Choice: Reed College
Fifth Choice: Kenyon College (safety)</p>
<p>for me:
UVA
DUKE
U Michigan
UMD-College PArk
Georgetown
UNC</p>
<p>I love you all, but you are all friggin' crazy. I'm thinking about University of Minnesota or University of Wisconsin - cheap, big, and lovely. Minnesota is a pretty big safety, and Wisconsin is a good match, so we'll see. Instate/reciprocity - wooo! I went through a stage where I wanted to go to a pricey private school, but then I realized that there is a 95% chance I'll be heading to grad school, and that your UG degree doesn't matter as much as your graduate, so if I'm gonna go pricey, I'll go pricey for grad. Reality checks = your friend.</p>
<p>dream school upenn wharton
most practical-wustl
others Rice, UCB, northwestern</p>