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<p>No, I don’t consider anything a given. Besides that’s not the only advice I gave you…</p>
<p>I think I could’ve been “more successful” from my own personal subjective point of view. Stanford and MIT were my first choices. Duke was my 3rd.</p>
<p>For those wondering earlier in the thread about CMU, it was the 2nd place I visited this spring. It’s a nice mix of city and campus, kind of like Georgia Institute of Technology (that was the 3rd place I visited). You’ve got a well defined campus, but you are a little ways from downtown Pittsburgh, albeit still in an urban area of Pittsburgh. Nice city by the way, a lot better than I expected. The campus is nice but I personally think I am a better fit for Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>Also - Trufflie, I don’t like those safeties. Those aren’t safe for anybody. The only things guaranteed in life are the kindness of strangers, the betrayal of those trusted, and uncertainty.</p>
<p>(And if anybody knows who I got that quote from without cheating and can cite it [this gets rid of the cheating aspect I guess], I will give you my full respect).</p>
<p>I’m way too optimistic, haha.
I want to be a british diplomat. I live in the US, but I have dual-citizenship.</p>
<p>Oxford
Cambridge
London School of Economics
University College London
King’s College London</p>
<p>got it thanks</p>
<p>I thought I thought about this stuff too much. :P</p>
<p>@Trufflie You don’t want to go to Michigan, no one likes Michigan. Everyone knows “on the banks of the red cedar” is where it is. :)</p>
<p>gahh i dont want to think about this XD
ive been trying to put the future like in the back of my mind. already stressed DX</p>
<p>but i digress.
<p>Tentative and ranked in order of preference</p>
<p>MIT (but it barely beats…)
Harvey Mudd
UChicago
Caltech
UC Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon
UCLA
UCSD
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<p>I’m not sure whether my parents would want/allow me to apply to the non-MIT/Caltech privates, since</p>
<p>a) we’re in California
b) I have a very good chance of getting into one of Cal or UCLA (given our school’s record and my stats)
c) they don’t think we really qualify for much financial aid, so they’ll probably be paying a lot unless I get a bunch of merit scholarships
d) they don’t think much of colleges that they’ve never really heard of</p>
<p>^^ i decided amherst instead of yale 
since yale students are gods.</p>
<p>Brown
Stanford
Dartmouth
Williams
Swarthmore
Princeton
UC Berkeley maybe?
Northwestern maybe?</p>
<p>School only allows for 8 so I have to choose wisely.</p>
<p>what, no safeties?</p>
<p>I’m not a great student, so here it goes.</p>
<p>Indiana
Kansas
Iowa
Minnesota-TC
Ohio State (bit of a reach)
UIUC (bit of a reach)
Wisconsin-Madison (bit of a reach)
Missouri-Columbia (safety)</p>
<p>082349, what do you mean your school only allows for 8? Like your school mandates how many colleges you can apply to? Sorry if I’m totally missing something here and that’s not what you meant but I didn’t know schools did (or could do) that…</p>
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<p>Actually the colleges in my own country are safeties and I don’t want to list them down there because it’s not part of the 8 that I can apply to.</p>
<p>Princeton
Columbia
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Stanford
Caltech
Cooper Union
UConn</p>
<p>Mine is frequently changing. As well as what it is I want to do in college. </p>
<p>Is it possible to major in, say, psychology/social welfare/service with a pre-med focus? My “plan” as of right now is become a social worker after my undergrad and through med-school and then hopefully become a psyhiatrist of some sort.</p>
<p>My college list:</p>
<p>Competitive:
Northwestern
UNC
John Hopkins
Dartmouth
UMASS
Berkeley
USC</p>
<p>Reaches: (in my state mostly. not exactly so sure how i fare out of state)
U of I
Indiana University
Purdue
Bradley
Depaul
Loyola</p>
<p>Safety: (again. mostly in-state)
ISU
UIC
Milikin
Cornell College</p>
<p>I’m trying to become more familiarized with more less-known colleges out-of-state.</p>
<p>Skidmore College
Vassar College
Clark University
Bowdoin College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Colby College
Swarthmore College
University of Vermont
Brandeis University
Sarah Lawrence College
Wesleyan University
Ithaca College</p>
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<p>My school does that because there are 1200 students in my cohort.</p>
<p>ah, college. so unsure stilll :|</p>
<p>Georgia Tech (safety)
Yale (dad went there)
MIT
Caltech
Brown (just got back from Summer@Brown program)
Stanford</p>
<p>~maybe
UMich (brother went to grad school there; went to MMSS program last summer)
University of Georgia</p>
<p>and this list will probably grow I don’t really want to apply to more than 5 or 6 though…</p>
<p>sigh… only 1 and half more years until we apply =/
Here goes! in order!</p>
<ol>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>Cal Poly Pomona</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>
<p>Thats it soo far! I have to visit more schools this summer =) but UCSD takes the cake so far</p>
<p>Does anyone else think it’s crazy that we’re going to be juniors?
Anyways…</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Missouri-Columbia</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>University of North Carolina Chapel Hill</li>
<li>University of Oregon</li>
</ol>
<p>But pretty much I have my heart set on going to Mizzou</p>