<p>Altsustar, that has to be my favorite list of colleges. It just looks so aethestically pleasing, and it’s not full of ridiculous reaches. You are pragmatic, so you win.</p>
<p>Haha IV. People who go to Vanderbilt have lives. People who go to Emory… yeah… ;)</p>
<p>hilsa, was that sarcasm? Or are you seriously smart enough to not consider any of those reaches…</p>
<p>^lol I don’t consider them reaches either?</p>
<p>I said ridiculous reaches. YEESH! 
I meant schools like HYPSMABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.</p>
<p>There are several ridiculous reaches. Chicago, Rice, and maybe Georgetown are major reaches. But at least I’m better than the guys who write down every single Ivy, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, and then a local state college as their apps. (The majority of people do that here. :p)</p>
<p>^Exactly! You are different. I approve.</p>
<p>(and my approval means A LOT) :P</p>
<p>Yeesh, I feel like a moron not having any ridiculously prestigious or high-rated places in my list… </p>
<p>UT Austin, Trinity University (San Antonio), University of Arizona… I haven’t really even though beyond those three because I’m lazeh. I could also add University of New Mexico to that list, but it’s not somewhere I want to go (in fact, I just WON’T go there), just somewhere my dad wants me to think about it because I could go for free if I’m still val at the end of next year.</p>
<p>high five buriedalie!</p>
<p>I’m not applying aywhere uberly reachy either. And UNM looks really nice, IMO.</p>
<p>
:[ I applied to HYPS, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Emory, and a local state college… whatever. I turned down Harvard. gotta count for something.</p>
<p>Except most of those guys don’t get into any of those private schools and end up attending local state schools with 2300 SATs, 3.8 GPAs, and enough cred to have gotten them into any of the schools I’m applying to.</p>
<p>They make me sad. Kind of.</p>
<p>LoonLake, it has a nice campus and Albuquerque is a nice place. My brother went to UNM, in fact… I’ve just heard from my brother and from a few other people that not many of their programs outside of photography and anthropology are especially good, and that it’s a big time commuter campus (and even though I guess I’m the stereotypical “antisocial” type, I still want to meet people when I’m in college…)</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure about 93.6% of CC’ers lie about their acceptances. None or very few of these people are actually getting into HYPMSABCDEF…</p>
<p>buriedalie… agreed… any college being a commuter campus is an instant turn off. with the exception of Washington.</p>
<p>Actually, I think most of my schools excluding one are severe reaches when I think about. I just have to look at the acceptance rate of students applying from my school.</p>
<p>Chicago - 4%
Georgetown - 5%
Notre Dame - 0% (everyone got rejected)
Vanderbilt - 0% (everyone got rejected)
Emory - 0% (everyone got rejected)
Boston College - 0% (everyone got rejected)
Rice - 10%
USC - 60%</p>
<p>
I got rejected from Yale, Princeton, and Stanford.</p>
<p>^ Then you’re in that 6.3% ; )</p>
<p>6.4… percent</p>
<p>^ aw shucks. That’s embarassing.</p>
<p>My list is:
Yale (dream school!)
MIT (close second!)
Duke
Emory
Tufts
UPenn
Georgetown
Northwestern
Boston University
University of Florida</p>
<p>Duke, UNC, UVA, Stanford, Georgetown, Princeton, Northwestern, Dartmouth, maybe Yale</p>