<p>Safeties:
UC Riverside
CSU Long Beach
CSU San Luis Obispo</p>
<p>Matches:
Johns Hopkins University
UC San Diego
UC Los Angeles
UC Davis
Swarthmore
Rice
Carleton</p>
<p>Reaches:
Cornell
Northwestern
Yale
Dartmouth</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Okay I'll bite and add in my ever changing list. :D It'll be final January 1st, 2009!</p>
<p>Reach:
Princeton
Stanford (SCEA)
Olin
MIT</p>
<p>Match:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Rice
CMU</p>
<p>Safety:
UCSD
UCD</p>
<p>Right now, I really like Carleton, Grinnell, and Macalester. I'm also considering Oberlin. Carleton's probably my biggest reach at this point.</p>
<p>For safeties, I'm applying to Knox and Kalamazoo.</p>
<p>haha i fold
I'm business oriented so</p>
<p>Reach:
UPenn Wharton
MIT
Cornell AEM</p>
<p>Slight Reach
UVA
NYU stern
Carnegie Mellon Tepper
UC Berkely</p>
<p>Match:
USC Marshall
UM</p>
<p>Safety
Indiana kelley
MSU</p>
<p>Reach: Yale (SCEA), Penn, Columbia, Georgetown, Wash U
Match: BC, GWU, maybe BU
Safety: Fordham, Pitt</p>
<p>Applying for Engineering aith a 30 ACT, 3.7(w) GPA with an extremely tough courseload and MAth2c of 740. Just took the Chemistry last week. Will do the ACT again aiming for a 32.</p>
<p>Safeties: UConn, Purdue, Penn State</p>
<p>High Reaches: Cornell, Nortwestern (ED)</p>
<p>Reaches: University Of Rochester, Lehigh, UMich, UIUC, GeorgiaTech, Uva</p>
<p>ugh...I need a good safety school...AND MATCHES!</p>
<p>So far, my list consists of only reaches; unless I can consider Johns Hopkins as a match.</p>
<p>Reach:
UCLA (Only because out of state is very competitive)
MIT (Possibly?)
Georgetown (Low Reach)</p>
<p>Match:
UVA
NYU</p>
<p>Safety:
I have no idea yet =p</p>
<p>Papanda_Bear (post #61): I'm sorry, but how are Rice, Swarthmore, and Hopkins your "matches" while Northwestern is a "reach"? That doesn't match up.</p>
<p>Unless your numbers are extremely excellent, Rice is not a "match" for anyone. That's like saying Duke is a match. It's a low reach, to say the least. I'd imagine Swarthmore and Hopkins are the same level of difficulty to get into as well.</p>
<p>Applying to Texas A&M Honors (safety), UT (safety), Baylor Honors (safety), Rice (reach), UChicago (reach), Barnard (reach or match? not sure...)</p>
<p>Oh, and for UT, I'm applying to Plan II, which is a reach.</p>
<p>EA: A&M, Baylor, UT, UChicago
Regular: Barnard and Rice</p>
<p>Safeties
Texas A&M
Penn State
Rutgers</p>
<p>Match/low reach
UT-Austin</p>
<p>Reaches
Rice
USC</p>
<p>um well i do crew.
im looking at:</p>
<p>Georgetown
Brown
Princeton
Harvard
BC
BU
UCLA
USC
USD
LMU
UVA
GWU</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Applying to @ 17 schools here. Yes, I know, I"m crazy, but I'm not taking any chances:</p>
<p>I'm going to apply all Regular decisions b/c I want to compare financial aid packages since I have no money for college education (parents can't afford to pay at all):</p>
<p>No order at all:
1) MIT
2) Caltech
3) stanford
4) yale
5) princeton
6) UPenn
7)harvard
8) Northwestern
9) University of Chicago
10) Columbia U
11) Carnegie Mellon University
12) Brown
13) Dartmouth
14) UC Berkeley
15) Uconn (safety)
16) Rochester Instutite of Technology (safety--b/c they accept a lot of deaf people...or so I"ve heard)
17) Cornell</p>
<p>SUPER REACH:
Stanford (maybe EA)
U Penn (Wharton)</p>
<p>REACH:
Georgetown
Cornell
Wash U </p>
<p>PROBABLY MATCH:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
USC
NYU (Stern..so probably REACH)</p>
<p>SAFETIES:
UCSD
UCI
CalState LB
Any other UCs</p>
<p>UPenn (1st Choice)
Maybe Harvard...
Georgetown
Dartmouth
Wesleyan
Swarthmore
Maybe Williams or Amherst...
UW (safety)</p>
<p>wildchartermage, you do realize that you'll be paying about $400+ on college apps alone, right?</p>
<p>wildchartermage, you can EA at schools like Chicago and MIT. I also think CalTech. If you get into one of those early, it might save you from thousands by applying to the other 14 schools.</p>
<p>yes, I do Ealgian..I'm probably either going to apply for fee wavier or have my relatives to chip in.</p>
<p>really? I could do EA at Chicago, MIT, and caltech?? But is there any signifanct difference in admissions between the EA and RD groups in those schools?</p>
<p>Yeah, those three schools allow non-restrictive early action. I also think that even if you don't get in EA, you are deferred to RD instead of rejected, so you can also send updates on your academic improvements. Plus all those schools give 100% demonstrated need. They probably all have different methods, but at least you know you'll be getting a substantial amount of money if you need it.</p>