Class of '08: Kinda early, but any thoughts on where to apply?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I have a list of 15 (Kind of in order):</p>

<ol>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (match)</li>
<li>Duke University (high match)</li>
<li>Stanford University (reach)</li>
<li>Columbia University (reach)</li>
<li>Vanderbilt (match)</li>
<li>Georgetown (high match)</li>
<li>UC-Berkeley (high match)</li>
<li>Rice (high match)</li>
<li>UCLA (match)</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin (low match)</li>
<li>Northwestern (high match)</li>
<li>USC (match)</li>
<li>GWU (low match)</li>
<li>Purdue (safety)</li>
<li>Michigan State (safety)</li>
</ol>

82

<ol>
<li>Sciences-Po Paris: Iberoamerican program in Poitiers</li>
<li>London School of Economics and Political Science</li>
<li>University of St. Andrews</li>
<li>University of Edinburgh</li>
<li>University of Wales, Aberystwyth</li>
<li>King's College London</li>
<li>University of Warwick</li>
<li>University of Geneva</li>
</ol>

83

<p>ouch
many people put rice
and seeing as how there are only 750 spots
thats not good =/</p>

<p>thinking about (no order)
1. UT
2. Rice
3. Chicago
4. Cornell</p>

<p>still havent really decided =/</p>

84

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>University of Washington</li>
<li>Whitman College</li>
<li>Goucher</li>
<li>Mt. Holyoke</li>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
</ol>

85

<p>University of Chicago - reach
UMich - slight reach
Northwestern - bigger reach
UW-Madison - match
UPenn - reach
Stanford - reach
UC-Berkeley - reach</p>

<p>:)</p>

86

<p>Most, if not all, of the UC's, some CSU's, and some others.</p>

87

<p>I've posted my list before, but it has changed...</p>

<ol>
<li>University of Miami</li>
<li>UC Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Loyola Marymount</li>
<li>Univ. of San Diego</li>
<li>San Diego State</li>
</ol>

<p>My Super Safeties: ASU, U of A, Indiana (I want to narrow this down to one or two).</p>

88

<p>In order:</p>

<p>Georgetown
Tufts
George Washington
Johns Hopkins
American
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Marquette</p>

89

<p>OMG! Can ya'll believe that we're rising seniors?! I thought senior year would never get here!!!
Well here's my list.... </p>

<p>-Reaches
University of Chicago (I love this place!!)
Yale
Columbia</p>

<p>-Matches
Emory
Villanova
Boston College</p>

<p>-Safeties
American
University of Georgia (in state)</p>

<p>I want to major in History at a medium-sized college (4,000-10,000) in or near a metropolis with a strong, rigorous core curriculum and a prestigious history department...so if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know them!!</p>

90

<p>i'm an '09 and i'm already thinking about where to apply. maybe it's a little early but i hope if i start now, i will be able to come up with a list that actually makes sense for me. so my question is: even after researching and making a short list, it's still okay to have one or two "love-at-first-sight" colleges on the list, right?</p>

91

<p>In no particular order:</p>

<p>Yale
NYU
Middlebury
Kenyon
Ithaca
Juilliard
Boston Conservatory
Boston University
Northwestern
Shenandoah Conservatory (w00t to safety schools, although I can't find admission stats on the conservatory, just the university)</p>

92

<ol>
<li>BC</li>
<li>BU</li>
<li>Holy Cross</li>
<li>Northeastern</li>
<li>Umass Lowell & Umass Amherst (safety)</li>
</ol>

93

<ol>
<li>Cornell (ED)</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Syracuse (Newhouse)</li>
<li>BU</li>
<li>Emerson</li>
<li>Northeastern</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>SUNY Binghamton</li>
<li>SUNY Geneseo</li>
<li>American/Fordham/or Providence</li>
</ol>

94

<p>Just in alphabetical order:</p>

<p>Bowdoin College
Brown University
Hamilton College
Kenyon College
Knox College
Pitzer College
Princeton University
Swarthmore College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>

95

<p>"The ever changing list ..."
Wisconsin
UT Austin
Indiana
Ohio State
UC- Boulder
LSU Honors
Ole Miss Honors
Texas A&M</p>

96

<p>Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell
Middlebury
Princeton
Davidson
McGill</p>

97

<ol>
<li>Penn (Wharton)</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>NYU (Stern)</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Carnegie-Mellon (Tepper)</li>
<li>Boston College (Carroll)</li>
<li>Rutgers</li>
</ol>

98

<p>NO SPECIFIC ORDER</p>

<p>Mount Holyoke
Smith?
Wheaton (MA)
BU
GW
Bennington
Hampshire
Oberlin</p>

99

<p>I'm applying to...</p>

<p>Harvard (#1 choice!)
BC
Cornell</p>

<p>Safeties-ish:
Skidmore
Syracuse
St. Lawrence</p>

100

<ol>
<li>tied between Brown and Middlebury</li>
<li>Bryn Mawr</li>
<li>Oberlin</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence (safety, but not $$, I think they only offer need-based)</li>
<li>Beloit (safety)
Still have to visit UMich, UChicago, and Yale before deciding whether to add them.</li>
</ol>