<p>Today my list is something like...
Barnard ED</p>
<p>Brown
Tufts
Johns Hopkins
Amherst?
UC Berkley?
Swarthmore?
Lehigh
Union</p>
<p>It kind of changes every day. The top 3 are the only ones I'm really sure about. I'm afraid to fall in love with them though (kind of already am) because I don't want to just end up rejected and depressed...</p>
<p>Any safety/match suggestions for those 3?</p>
<p>As of now (in order of preference):</p>
<p>Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Yale
maybe Brown</p>
<p>Maybe</p>
<p>Stanford SCEA
Columbia
NYU
Northwestern
U of Chicago
USC
Brown
Harvard
Yale
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Maybe
MIT
Boston College
Georgetown
Boston University</p>
<p>and some safeties that i have yet to fall in love with.</p>
<p>Updated list (order of preference)</p>
<p>Notre Dame
Rice
Boston College
University of Texas (in-state, safety)
JHU
Georgetown
Northwestern
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Washington
Texas A&M (safety)</p>
<p>It's a little reach heavy, but for me UT is both a safety and a match; I will get automatic admission and it's a very good school. Wouldn't mind going there at all :) I will also likely be going there if I don't get good finaid from any of the schools I get accepted to. Only 7,500 a year for tuition at UT, it's a great deal.</p>
<p>I'm sorry for interrupting this thread, but I have some advice to give to all of you.</p>
<p>As a person, who has been rejected or waitlisted to my top choices, I would like to say that everybody should apply to back up schools, which you would definitely like to attend. I applied to some good back up schools, but I am not as enthusiastic about them as the universities that waitlisted me.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, good advice. I still don't know what safeties schools I want. I was going to do Penn State, but If all else failed, I wouldn't want to go there.</p>
<p>My High Reaches:
Johns Hopkins University
Washington University @ St. Louis
Duke University
Cornell? Not sure I'm applying there
Rice University</p>
<p>Low Reach
Emory University</p>
<p>Safeties
Georgia Tech
Tulane</p>
<p>I'm a kid who has a 4.27 weighted so far, ranked top 6% very competitive school, takes most rigorous courses, No SAT taken yet</p>
<p>As an addendum to the above, do not choose schools with <30% acceptance rates as your safeties. It doesn't matter whether it's a state school, or if your school sends 50 students there each year. Many people this year made that mistake and were rejected from schools they considered "safeties." Don't be arrogant and choose a school that's really a safety--one that can realistically be a safety. Look at the average SATs, average GPAs, % students in the top 10%, acceptance rates, CC stats profiles, CC "actual results" thread, mychances.net, etc. to decide what really is a safety for you.</p>
<p>For UCs, SAT scores don't mean a lot. It's mostly your GPA.</p>
<p>W&L and some other preppy skools with ok baseball teams i spose.....</p>
<p>Aiming at:
Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
Yale
Berkely
Cornell
Columbia
John Hopkins</p>
<p>Probably:</p>
<p>Vassar
Boston University
Temple
Oberlin
Sarah Lawrence
Oklahoma City University
NYU
American
Swarthmore
UPenn (because I fell in love with it, never mind that it's a huge reach)
Hendrix
University of Tulsa
Rice
Carnegie Mellon
Emerson</p>
<p>There are a few more that I'm considering. And, of course, this can (and probably) all change by the time I apply.</p>
<p>(Order of Preference):</p>
<p>Yale (EA)
Harvard
Columbia
Brown </p>
<p>Matches:
NYU
UCLA</p>
<p>Possibilities:
Princeton
Penn</p>
<p>Safeties:
Fordham
USC?</p>
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<p>Would you like a cookie?</p>
<p>In order of preference:</p>
<p>Rice (plan on applying ED, so hopefully it's the only one)
Vanderbilt
Wash U in St. Louis
George Washington
William & Mary (it's the only in-state school that I really like)
Tulane</p>
<p>I need to find some safety schools, but I really don't want to go to a state university.</p>
<p>reaches/matches
columbia
cornell
cooper union
nyu
northwestern
carnegie mellon</p>
<p>My daughter's current list:
match/reach
Carleton
Swarthmore
Amherst
Dartmouth
Wesleyan</p>
<p>safish?
Wheaton (MA)</p>
<p>reach:
Cornell
UPenn
UNC
UVA</p>
<p>match:
Villanova
Northeastern
Bentley
U on Maryland
U of Michigan</p>
<p>Safeties:
UConn
Penn State</p>
<p>California resident here.
Reaches
U Penn
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Northwestern</p>
<p>Possible Matches
UCLA
NYU Stern
Michigan Ross
Notre Dame
USC</p>
<p>Safeties
UCI
UCSD</p>
<p>My daughter is very interested in the Hotel School at Cornell (stretch)and also liked Bentley when we visited briefly. We are from the West Coast with almost all family back East. I am interested to hear what you thought of Bentley and/or how your heard of it. It was a school my daughter's c. counselor recommended.</p>