<p>As of now...</p>
<p>Princeton
UPenn
Georgetown
Northwestern
Michigan
Virginia
Bowdoin
Rochester
Rutgers (safety)</p>
<p>Son is considering:</p>
<p>WPI
RPI
RIT
Stevens Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman
Missouri S&T
UT-Dallas
Clarkson
Allegheny</p>
<p>philoglossia & vhoidz: thanks for the explanation. i really didn't know what made a school a "match". (my list was partially categorized by an online generator; i guess it doesn't take into account the spazzy admission patterns some schools have.) </p>
<p>in that case, this means that all of the very selective schools are reach schools for everyone, correct?</p>
<p>poli yes! Try collegedata.com and to give you a more accurate picture. No one gets "good bet" for the most selective schools</p>
<p>ED: Wharton at UPenn</p>
<p>RD: hopefully, I won't have to :D</p>
<p>EA (i'm pretty sure all are nonbinding early action? if any are binding, i'll wait)
university of michigan ann arbor
university of wisconsin madison
michigan state university (safety.)</p>
<p>i am trying to think of some reaches?
maybe carnegie mellon since i want to go into engineering</p>
<p>FSU
UF
Emory
Wake Forest
UChicago (where I want to go)
Penn
Cornell</p>
<p>Obviously, the list will change. But there's a reason that "rough drafts" exist.</p>
<p>EA: MIT, WPI</p>
<p>RD:
BU
Tufts
U. Rochester
Brown
RIT
RPI</p>
<p>ED: NYU Stern </p>
<p>EA: UChicago
Fordham (maybe...)
Somewhere with a good finance program that I know I'll get into </p>
<p>Regular:
hopefully none, but some high reaches and more east coast match schools.</p>
<p>Reach:</p>
<p>Lehigh
Fordham
NYU
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Rochester</p>
<p>Matches:</p>
<p>Babson College
Bentley College
Muhlenburg College
Uconn</p>
<p>Safety: Bryant University</p>
<p>I think I change my list every week. Or every two days. ... But this time I'm actually pretty sure. (Just watch, it'll change about eight times before the weekend is over.)</p>
<p>Georgetown SFS EA (reach)
Lewis & Clark EA (low match/safety)
Middlebury (reach)
Brown (reach)
Stanford (reach)
Wellesley (match)
Colby (match)
American (safety)
UC Berkeley (reach)
UC Davis (safety through ELC, people from my school get into Davis and Merced)</p>
<p>I will not apply to Colby, American, UC Berkeley (I guess it'd be too late, but I'd try to pull my application), and MAYBE Wellesley (or maybe not) if I got into Georgetown.</p>
<p>I might apply to UChicago EA (reach) if I can get over its core, which I happened to love five months before so who knows.</p>
<p>I really don't want to go over 8 schools (excluding UCs, since they don't ask for teacher recs.) as to not bother my teachers (I know one would be like "y u 'pylin' 2 so many skools go 2 da jr. college yo" ... okay not really.) But at the same time I am paranoid and don't want to be rejected to all my reaches/matches and become a victim to Tufts Syndrome with my safeties. ...</p>
<p>D's list thus far--very short since she's not yet taken the SAT. (Probably not our smartest move, but we decided given her winter schedule, etc. it would have been a waste of time to take it in March. January was impossible because of EC/sports commitments) Her matches/etc. are based upon her PSAT's and a couple of practice tests, so our best guess. </p>
<p>Loyola-Chicago--safety/match
St. Louis University--safety/match
IU-Bloomington---safety/match
U of Colorado--Boulder
Northwestern and/or Notre Dame--reach probably</p>
<p>Until we know those scores, it's a bit tough to make decisions.</p>
<p>UCLA
Chapman
UC Irvine
UC Davis
CSU Long Beach</p>
<p>Safetys:
UC Riverside
CSU Fullerton</p>
<p>I'm going to be a dance major, so I don't really care about the school's ranking. These all have the best dance programs in SoCal, I think. Chapman is my number 1, UCLA's dance program deteriorated after they turned it into World Cultures, so i'm just going to audition for fun. :)</p>
<p>rrah~ I didn't take the SAT I till November of my Senior Year, so I wouldn't sweat it overmuch. :)</p>
<p>i am seeing a distinct lack of barnard love from the city-oriented girls here. nyu has a total of 13 mentions, columbia has 12, and barnard has 4. what's the turn-off? it's an lac without cutthroat competition, and with clean dorms, a research university, and a diploma that says "columbia." what's not to <3?</p>
<p>This is my plan (might change though): </p>
<p>Reaches - Rice, U Michigan</p>
<p>Matches - NYU, Georgia Tech, UT Austin</p>
<p>Safeties - Boston University, Illinois Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Yea, I don't really think that I'll be getting in anywhere with all the reach schools I'm applying to:</p>
<p>Safety:
UGA (in-state...actually, in athens)
Wake Forest</p>
<p>Matches/Reach:
College of the Holy Cross
Colgate U
Emory
Lehigh
Middlebury
Union College
Rochester
Vermont
Vassar</p>
<p>Reach:
Boston College
William and Mary
Brown
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Chicago
Notre Dame</p>
<p>Woohoo, let me take a breath first before I launch myself to my realm of "impossible college list".</p>
<p>Columbia ED
UChicago EA
UPenn
Yale
Stanford
Brown
Georgetown
Williams
Dartmouth
Northwestern
JHU
Duke
Emory
Tufts
McGill (safety)</p>
<p>meh. Just need to get into at least one :P Hope that's either Columbia or Georgetown SFS</p>
<p>As of now, probably...
Brown ED
UChicago EA
Columbia
UPenn
Cornell
Amherst
Vassar
Wesleyan
Williams
Middlebury
Bowdoin
Skidmore
NYU
SUNY Binghamton</p>
<p>And maybe Princeton, just for kicks. But probably not. It's a little reach-heavy, I'll probably come up with some more low matches/safeties soon, and narrow down the LACs a little.</p>
<p>Notre Dame
Boston College
Holy Cross
Georgetown
William and Mary
Davidson
Wake Forest</p>