<p>I don’t feel bad at all LOL. anything on the internet is fair game :p</p>
<p>@david: I love UC schools! but I’m OOS + I hate the essay prompts.
if I actually liked them, I’d apply to UCLA and Berkeley.</p>
<p>@naitou: Central Arkansas? where do you live? lol</p>
<p>@drinksuited… Tbh… all the schools in my area that I can afford that can be considered safeties… I hate with a passion. Like a deep passion. So… I’m deciding to apply to the schools I like, and hope for each one.</p>
<p>seriously I feel the same way.
I can’t imagine myself ever being satisfied going to one of my safeties.
let’s just jump in with our fingers crossed!</p>
<p>If I don’t get in, I have no qualms with going to a CC.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>i’ll just feel shame. I’ll lay in bed for days, eating icecream.</p>
<p>You’d prefer a CC to a safety school? That’s not a choice I personally would make, but if that’s what you want…
I would still apply to one safety school, even if I didn’t like it. You can always transfer.
Do you even have match schools? Or they all reaches?
I still suggest applying to a SUNY school. Their prices for OOS aren’t as insane as those of other state schools <em>coughcoughUCcoughcough</em> and at least the two I’m applying to are good schools.</p>
<p>I’ll still have IB Exams to take lol, so if I end up going to my local CC… I just wasted 2 years of IB Diploma.</p>
<p>EA:
MIT</p>
<p>RD (if rejected/deferred from MIT):
Stanford
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
UCSD
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>i can’t wait to apply! want to get out of HS soooo baddd >__<</p>
<p>O__o</p>
<p>man, IB better take me to better places than my local CC.</p>
<p>^^^ I hate all schools in my state. And transferring’s a process I don’t want to go through.</p>
<p>Don’t like SUNY’s either. A few of the schools on that list are matches. I’m expecting to get into 2-3 schools on that list.</p>
<p>@MIT CC is just like high school. You might want to consider that.</p>
<p>EDIT sorry, I just saw that you do have some matches at least.</p>
<p>I’m simultaneously super excited and freaked out for the whole application process in the fall.
I’ve been debating what to write for my essays and such since sophomore year. 
</p>
<p>That said, my preliminary college list is:
Northwestern (HPME!)
Brown (PLME!)
University of Chicago
University of Rochester
Cornell
Boston U
Tufts
…maybe Dartmouth</p>
<p>Those and then my in-state university (guaranteed acceptance; if I have a 3.0, I don’t even need to submit an standardized testing. They’d also give me loads of scholarship money. Definitely a last resort though)
This list is bound to be edited many, many times before fall 2011. :D</p>
<p>May change:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Georgetown
Dartmouth
Few state colleges</p>
<p>san diego state, cal poly pomona, san francisco state, san jose state</p>
<p>for sure:
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UCSD</p>
<p>that’s about all I have right now. still looking around!</p>
<p>don’t bash CCs.</p>
<p>that’s rude/disrespectful.</p>
<p>Long List for now:</p>
<p>-Dartmouth (ED)
-UChicago
-Northwestern
-Amherst
-Pomona
-Yale
-UCLA
-Berkley
-Boston College
-UPenn
-Cornell
-Columbia
-Duke
-Georgetown
-Swarthmore
-Johns Hopkins
-Washu
-Brown
-University of Washington (Safety)
-Stanford</p>
<p>^Dear god.</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>I’m look mostly at women’s colleges so my current list is:
Smith
Scripps
Barnard
Mount Holyoke
Mills
Simmons</p>
<p>^^ I said the same thing…</p>
<p>^ You and CPU should become friends. :)</p>