<p>ED: Dartmouth--High Reach
EA: Notre Dame--High match
Boston College--High match
UNC OOS--Reach
UCONN instate--Safety
Fordham--Safety
RD: UPENN CAS--Reach
Duke--High Reach
Northwestern--Reach
UVA OOS--High match
Wake Forest--Match</p>
<p>Too many schools Too many reaches Need to cut it down and add more matches--although I'm satisfied with my safeties</p>
<p>COLLEGE CLASS OF 2013 <3
Upenn- high reach (top choice)
Columbia high reach
Cornell reach
Brown high reach
Jhop low reach/match
Northeastern -match
UCONN - match
Stonehill - safe
BINGHAMTON -low match/safe
STONYBROOK - safe</p>
<p>As of right now (everything but the first 5 are subject to change):
Williams, Bard, Columbia, Harvard, SUNY Binghamton, Wesleyan, Vassar, and Skidmore.</p>
<p>Cornell (ED)!!!!!! I love their campus and academic history!</p>
<p>RD:
Duke (reach?)
Johns Hopkins (reach?)
Emory (safety)
Tulane (safety)
Stanford (reach)
WashU (reach)</p>
<p>Good Luck with everyone else!</p>
<p>Florida State (top choice) match
Univ. Florida- slight reach
U. of Central FL- match
Penn State Univ. Park-slight reach?
Drexel- match? (not too sure about this one)</p>
<p>No safeties for me. It sounds stupid to you "intellectual" kids and your 4.3's , but sports play a large part in who I am and what I want to do with my life so a college with a great athletic program is a must for me. These are the schools I want to go to and if I get in nowhere on the first pass, I'll just go the route of Comm. College.</p>
<p>ED: Occidental (match/reach, mom and uncle alumni)
RD:
NYU (reach)
American University (match)
Robert Morris (safety)
Quinnipiac (safety/match)
Colorado College (match/reach cousin is alumni)
I'll probably add/subtract a few more in the coming months...</p>
<p>this thread would be so much more helpful if people put their stats. Of course, ECs and the essays will probably make or break some of these applications, but still.</p>
<p>Forizz,
Where is your safety college? There are expected to be even more applicants next year for selective colleges. You might want to add a couple of other names to that list.</p>
<p>Cincinnati - match/reach
Iowa State - match
Oregon - match
Washington - high reach
Arizona State - safety
Virginia Commonwealth - safety</p>
<p>University of Kentucky (full ride)
Western Kentucky University (full ride)
Centre College (free to apply)</p>
<p>There is a 99.99% chance I am going to one of those schools.</p>
<p>But I'll also be applying to places like Northwestern, UChicago, Cornell, etc.</p>
<p>Just so I can cry if I get in =)</p>
<p>Georgia Tech
Emory
Virginia
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford</p>
<p>Stanford is my top choice and I think I'll end up at Virginia.</p>
<p>i havent finished visiting schools and im not even sure what type of school i like best but my approximate list would be:</p>
<p>Duke (legacy)</p>
<p>reach/slight reaches: stanford, northwestern, Vandy, Georgetown, UVA, UCB, emory, rice, davidson, pomona</p>
<p>Matches/safeties: USC (so cal), wake forest, BC, Umiami, UCLA, elon, furman prob other places but i have no idea yet</p>
<p>EliCash 91 seems to have the right idea in NOT applying to 10 or more schools. What is the point? My daughter is a sophomore and I suspect she will apply to 5 to 7, tops. Otherwise, applicants are spending SO much time in the application process, garnering all the requisiste recs, etc. What happened to 2 reaches, 2 or 3 likelies and 2 safeties? Can you say, "save some time to enjoy your senior year?"</p>
<p>Let's get a dialogue going here. I really want some diverse input from students and parents. After looking at some of the waitlist threads and other commentaries, it would appear that many of our kids are much too stressed and much too invested in this whole process?</p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Brown
Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison
Univerisity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Boston University
Stanford
Emory
University of Rochester
Indiana University at Bloomington</p>
<p>The first seven are for sure, and the other four are question marks. I still have research to do on Stanford, Emory, and URochester, and Indiana is just a question of whether I should bother, though it would be nice to get in somewhere early on (because they have rolling admissions).</p>
<p>UPenn ED (if it doesn't work out)
UCLA
UCB
UC Davis
WUSTL
The Ivies except princeton and columbia</p>
<p>Very, very rough draft--my list changes every day!</p>
<p>The definite ones so far: </p>
<p>U Mich (2x legacy and in love with the school; match?)
Berkeley (reach)
Northwestern (legacy and dad's a prof)
CU Boulder (safety)
Colorado College EA (match)
Tulane EA (match)</p>
<p>Haven't decided/visited yet:
Tufts, Emory, Brown, Cornell, Penn, WUSTL (all reaches), Scripps & Wisconsin (matches), Pitzer (safety)</p>
<p>It's also possible that I'll hear back from Michigan by November and only apply to Northwestern plus any schools that might give me lots of cash $.</p>
<p>Reaches:
U of W-Madison
Trinity University(TX)
College of Charleston</p>
<p>Matches:
Ripon College( My #1 school as of right now.)
St.Johns University(the one in Minnesota. My #2)
Texas A&M University(Legacy)
Hamline University</p>
<p>Safeties:
Westminster College
University of Minnesota- Morris
Montana State University-Bozeman </p>
<p>My list will change alot but these are just the first ideas.</p>
<p>Taken from my other thread, and still tentative. But here's the list, accurate as of today, May 17 2008</p>
<p>Grouped by my chances of getting in...</p>
<p>MIT (Likely will EA this one)
Stanford (Curse you restrictive EA...)
Princeton
Cornell</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd
Caltech
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Cal Poly
Rensselaer</p>
<p>Georgia Tech (Safety)
U of Washington (In state, if all else fails)</p>
<p>Pending changes: Might take out RPI and add Northwestern. Need to think about that more.</p>
<p>Why do you think Cornell is easier to get into than Caltech and Carnegie Mellon? Well, it depends on which colleges within the university you are applying to but Caltech is not a match really for anyone and CMU has large rising apps and lower acceptance rates, and its tech and business programs are very hard to get into.</p>
<p>summerinthecity - Pitzer had an acceptance rate of 22% this spring, same as UCB; careful if you consider it a safety.</p>