<p>I heard that a bunch of people from our school got into Stanford and Cornell today… Now I’m considering putting one or both on my list. xP (Probably won’t stay there for long, though…)</p>
<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>UC San Diego</li>
<li>UC Irvine</li>
<li>Cal Poly Pomona</li>
</ol>
<p>still exploring =D</p>
<p>Loyola Marymount
Boston University
Cal Poly Pomona</p>
<p>Not totally sure yet. I’ve got a decently-sized list, but I definitely wanna apply somewhere Early Decision… Oh, decisions…</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Harvard? [still have to visit]</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
</ol>
<p>I think I need more safeties…</p>
<p>@CPU: Yes, I’m applying ED for sure! I’m not exactly sure where though… lol
How was your visit to Smith??</p>
<p>@sine: Yeah, you might want another safety or two! All those schools have acceptance rates under 15% (i’m not sure about Lehigh)…but still apply for sure! You never know!</p>
<p>1 more to my list… sigh lol</p>
<p>USC
Vanderbilt
Johns Hopkins
Chapman EA
Santa Clara EA
CSU Long Beach
San Diego State</p>
<p>Mandy- I FELL IN LOVE! where are you considering applying ED?</p>
<p>Final list, took off some schools:</p>
<p>ED:
Smith</p>
<p>RD:
Cornell
UMass
BU
NEU
MIT
RPI</p>
<p>Wow. A lot of you are applying to some big name schools haha</p>
<p>Here’s my undazzling list lol</p>
<p>Since I live in FL:
UMiami
UFlorida
UCental Florida
USouth Florida
Florida State U</p>
<p>Since I want to leave FL:
Pepperdine U
Loyola Marymount U
UAlabama
Auburn U</p>
<p>Because I’m crazy and have an affinity for rejection:
UPenn</p>
<p>Let’s hope 4 years of the IB program and ridiculous amounts of AP exams gets me accepted into at least one of these schools.</p>
<p>Revised, based on rumors of people getting owned by UCLA/Berkeley/UCSD at my school.</p>
<p>Super reach: MIT
Reach: Harvey Mudd, UChicago, Rice
Match: Carnegie Mellon (MCS), Berkeley, UCLA
Safety-ish: UCSD (I saw an Intel semifinalist get rejected on the UCSD board, so NOTHING IS CERTAIN)
Safety: UCSB (CCS), UC Davis, UCSC</p>
<p>I will apply to a few of: Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, WUSTL, Northwestern, Swarthmore, Carleton, Grinnell. I will be a National Merit Semifinalist, so I might pick a college that provides a lot of money for that for a safety.</p>
<p>I wish I was class of 2012, but,sadly, I am class of 2013. Oh well.</p>
<p>ED: Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Reaches: Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, UPenn (Wharton), Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>Targets: Haverford, Swarthmore, William & Mary, Middlebury, Vassar, Wesleyan
(though they are all pretty tough so it’s more like high targets)</p>
<p>Safeties: Binghamton, Stonybrook, I need 1 or 2 more</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1118617-chances-getting-into-ucsb-uci-ucr-ucla-usc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1118617-chances-getting-into-ucsb-uci-ucr-ucla-usc.html</a></p>
<p>please reply to my Thread …</p>
<p>Question: How does someone people add Ivies and/or SuperDuper Tier 1 schools to their targets/matches? Do they know of a secret almost-assured way in that the rest of us were never informed of?</p>
<p>*Don’t mean to be rude. Just honestly curious…</p>
<p>@born URM with great stats, and ECs</p>
<p>It’s really not a match.</p>
<p>It’s a crapshoot for a lot of people, if not everyone. It might be a match in terms of values and offerings, but in admissions chances, no. At least in my point of view.</p>
<p>Just a word of advice to prospective college applicants:</p>
<p>Don’t be strict about the colleges you are going to apply to. I understand if you don’t want to pay for the extra application fees or whatnot, but if you decide you don’t want to apply to a school or do want to apply to a school even with only one week left just go ahead!</p>
<p>Now that my app season is over, I regret not applying to a few schools I was looking at (including a couple schools like Cornell, as well as a financial safety that I know I wouldn’t attend anyway), and I can also say for certain that I’m glad I applied to a couple of the schools that I did last minute.</p>
<p>What I’m getting at is that once you have a list and begin your applications, don’t feel as though the list has to be final. The CommonApp and other newer tools have made this not only possible, but also quite simple to accomplish, so why not take advantage of it? Hopefully I’m getting my point across well.</p>
<p>Another thing: if you have already been accepted to a school that you know you can afford and would be happy to attend, then you don’t have to apply to any other safeties if you don’t want to. I only had one safety, so I had much more time to devote to applications to schools I was really passionate about.</p>
<p>This list changes like every day. But right now.
All RD:
Harvard
Stanford
Emory
Vanderbilt
UChicago
UTennessee, honors college</p>
<p>Sent my SAT/ACT scores to UPenn, Columbia, Duke, and Auburn, as well</p>
<p>For those of you who have only 1-3 ivys on your list, what made you eliminate the others? Did you visit them and not like them? Just wondering as I’m putting my list together and reading this thread :p</p>
<p>@elizaruns: You must live in Tennessee! Not a lot of people outside of TN apply to UT knox ■■■■■. Unless you live in a nearby Southern state.</p>
<p>@FallenAngel: That’s such sound advice. Thank you :)</p>
<p>HYPMS, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, JHU, UChicago, UC Berkeley, Caltech, Dartmouth. Possibly RPI, Rice, RIT, UIllinois Urbana-Champaign, Wash.U St.Louis, Carnegie Mellon, Duke… Penn State as a safety?</p>
<p>EA to Chicago, MIT, and Caltech. Providing I get one acceptance out of the three (hint: it’s not likely going to be MIT or Caltech), I might drop a lot of the possiblies for RD.</p>