Class of 2012: Where are you applying to?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
601

<p>This is my extremely long list which has yet to be whittled down (final list will be about 17-18). Arranged by preference and in order of decreasing chance of rejection (the ones I’m not definite about applying to are in italics):</p>

<ol>
<li>Cornell CALS - AEM intended major - ED</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Duke - Trinity</li>
<li>LSE</li>
<li>UCL</li>
<li>NYU Stern</li>
<li>Northwestern
8. UChicago - EA<a href=“I%20met%20a%20really%20nice%20rep%20from%20here%20so%20that’s%20swaying%20me%20to%20apply,%20but%20the%20idea%20of%20living%20with%20masochistic%20pedants%20for%204%20years%20kills%20me%20a%20bit%20inside”>/i</a></li>
<li><p>Barnard
10. WUSTL</p></li>
<li><p>Georgetown - McDonough - EA</p></li>
<li><p>UC Berkeley</p></li>
<li><p>UVA McIntire</p></li>
<li><p>Vassar</p></li>
<li><p>UMich Ross - EA</p></li>
<li><p>Wesleyan*
17. Emory - Goizueta</p></li>
<li><p>Rice**</p></li>
<li><p>Boston College
19. UNC - CH*
20. Tufts</p></li>
<li><p>Wellesley*</p></li>
<li><p>Boston University
23. USC</p></li>
<li><p>Pepperdine*</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Other notes: I’m an international, not applying for fin-aid. Getting (or banking on getting) a fee waiver!

  • denotes schools unheard of to my immediate and extended family, friends.</p>
602

<p>Bowdoin is one of my new favorite schools.</p>

<p>In other news, might not be applying to Middlebury since I’m not too big on their language and international programs.</p>

603

<p>I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone complain about Middlebury and language in the same sentence. Isn’t that what they’re famous for? Just out of curiosity, what don’t you like about it?</p>

<p>Sent from my Vortex using CC App</p>

604

<p>Oh, no, their language programs are amazing. It’s just not so much a fit. The two main things Middlebury emphasizes are language/international studies and environmentalism. I find both important (planning on studying a language and I find nothing wrong with environmentalism), but they aren’t so much what I’m looking for in a college (I’m attracted to the themes of intellectual rigor and social activism of Swarthmore and Bowdoin).</p>

<p>That said, I may still apply to Middlebury, since I did enjoy my visit.</p>

605

<p>Early Action
University of Michigan
University of Miami
Louisiana State University</p>

<p>Regular Decision
Yale University
Cornell University
Rice University
University of Southern California
Kenyon College</p>

606

<p>Bard college
Trinity college
Bates college
Bennington college
Dickinson college
Bridgewater state university
Wagner college</p>

607

<ol>
<li>Unc chapel hill</li>
<li>UVA </li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>Elon </li>
<li>Wake forest</li>
<li>Unc Wilmington </li>
</ol>

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608

<p>UIUC
Purdue
Wisconsin
Iowa</p>

609

<p>Safeties: UT, Baylor
Mid- Reaches: Rice, Johns Hopkins
High Reaches: Cornell, Duke, UPenn
Also doing questbridge where I will apply to: 1.Yale 2. UPenn, 3. Brown (there application is sooo long…) 4. Northwestern 5. Rice</p>

610

<p>Williams is awesome.</p>

<p>Toured at Amherst but couldn’t make the info session. Campus was nice but there is surprisingly little to learn when the tour guide is too busy talking about stuff you already know like how there’s wifi everywhere on campus and how you can get books from other college libraries if Amherst doesn’t have the one your looking for and how the classes are discussion based and there’s an open curriculum. I’ll have to go back someday, maybe if I get accepted, to form a full opinion.</p>

<p>So my new list of colleges I’m applying to in their tiers:
Swarthmore / Bowdoin / Yale / Williams
Brown / Vassar
Bates / Colby / Amherst
UConn</p>

<p>Decision will probably come down to finances (or rejections). That would make it easy, at least. But I hope one of my top 4 is an option. :stuck_out_tongue: Need to find another safety.</p>

611

<p>Ok my list…I REALLY need help:</p>

<p>Barnard ED</p>

<p>UPenn
Georgetown
Northwestern
Cornell CHE
Tufts
UMich
W&M</p>

<p>…need some safer bets. Help guys!!!</p>

612

<p>OK, I think I’ve said “final list” in this thread twice already, so I’ll just say this is my current list, roughly by preference:</p>

<p>MIT (maybe EA)
Stanford
UChicago (maybe EA)
Caltech (maybe EA)
Harvey Mudd
Rice
WUSTL
CMU
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UC Davis</p>

<p>I decided not to apply to more because Berkeley is pretty darn good already (prospective math or physics or CS major) and this year is going to be busy.</p>

613

<p>treehugga maybe syracuse? safety for you?</p>

614

<p>University of Southern California
Loyola Marymount
University of the Pacific
Santa Clara
Chapman
Some match schools outside of California
and some California State schools. :)</p>

615

<p>So many great schools. :P</p>

616

<p>University of Notre Dame
UC Berkeley
Kalamazoo College
Elon University
SUNY Binghamton
UC Riverside
Cal States</p>

<p>Kalamazoo, UC Berkeley, and maybe UCLA are part of the Posse Foundation whose scholarship I was nominated for. Therefore, if I win, I choose one of them (I’m more inclined to Kalamazoo than Berkeley; I’m not sure about UCLA).</p>

<p>University of Notre Dame is my dream school <3</p>

<p>Elon and SUNY Binghamton are schools that I never visited but I’m pretty sure I would be happy in for four years.</p>

<p>UC Riverside and Cal States are my safeties.</p>

617

<p>Wisconsin
Ohio State Miami of Ohio
Minnesota
University of Cincinnati (safety)<br>
These are what i have so far</p>

618

<p>northwestern
uchicago
rice
UVA
w&m
jmu
cu boulder</p>

<p>still looking at my options but these are all pretty solid for me</p>

619

<p>I really can’t believe my life is going to be determined by one of these places.</p>

<p>Penn
Notre Dame
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Michigan
UNC
Emory
NYU
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western Reserve
University of Sciences in Philadelphia
Rutgers</p>

620

<p>Brown Early Decision :slight_smile:
UChicago
Northwestern
Columbia
UVA
UCLA
USC
NYU
BU</p>