<p>I’m gonna apply early to UChicago…
other reaches: Swarthmore, Brown
slightly more match-y (only slightly): Tufts, Oberlin (legacy), Bryn Mawr
safeties: ??? SUNY Purchase??</p>
<p>@Etuck </p>
<p>I really like some of the aspects of Penn State such as the enormous amount of school spirit, good athletics, good engineering department, etc. But I hate how there’s so many kids. It’s like its own small city. I feel like the class sizes would be huge and you wouldn’t even get to know any professors and it would be hard to do research with them.</p>
<p>@Yankee Oh thats what I love about it. I want to have thousands of kids around me, more opportunity for making some amazing friends, and participating in the ridiculous amounts of clubs they have there. The average class size really isn’t that big though, you’ll have one or two massive lecture classes, but after that it’s not too bad, I spoke with some students while I went on my tour. And according to a lot of students there, professors office hours are really under-used, so the opportunity is there. </p>
<p>And it’s the 3rd largest city in PA during a football weekend, yep, everything in Centre country revolves around PSU. They told me though at an information session that 1 in every 120 something college graduates has a degree from Penn state. So it’s a huge alumni network, a big bonus. Add that to it being a top 50 school in the country, as well as a top 5 party school, I don’t see where you can go wrong.</p>
<p>Maybe you’re right. I still haven’t completely ruled it out. I still have to go for a campus tour. I also don’t really like the location, it seems miles away from any main cities. I feel like there’s nothing to do off-campus, which is why I preferred Boston and Philadelphia. But I’ll have to see for myself.</p>
<p>Oh that’s absolutely true. If you don’t like being in your own little bubble you probably won’t like it. I like the idea, but it’s a good 2 hour drive from any major city like Harrisburg. I drove from Lehigh to PSU and it was an exhausting drive…nothing but mountains for 3 hours…then all of the sudden you see beaver stadium over a mountain and theres like 70,000 people out of no where.I’m glad I visited though. Since I’m an NC resident, I want to be really sure if I go that far from home</p>
<p>I was wondering if I could get a little feedback on mine and my perspective on it.</p>
<p>University of San Francisco with intentions of dental school</p>
<p>I learned a valuable lesson recently: Networking is the key to everything. And the key to networking is seizing the opportunities and to gain experience and proper socializing.</p>
<p>USF is 2 miles away from UCSF Dental School and UOP’s Arthur A. Dugoni Dental School, so the web is pretty well spun and tossed. I’ve talked to admissions counselors and students alike from USF and they tell me that because of the location and how everything works out, there will always be opportunities to intern at UCSF’s facilities, receive references from those who are actually connected in either schools, meeting alumni from both, etc etc.</p>
<p>Buut that’s not the main selling point for me. My focus is that it’s in freakin’ San Francisco. College can be referred to as the first four years of one’s independent life, or if you consider getting your Bachelor’s as the marking point, then college is the gray transitional area where you find out what you want. SF is practically the Mecca of diversity and the flagship of new ideas. I would like to think that those years in SF would help me develop in a well-rounded Renaissance man. ya’know what I’m trying to say?</p>
<p>Plus USF is a great school in itself. Above average to great academics, small class sizes, new facilities when our class enters, over 90% of the staff have terminal degrees, large variety of majors(and subsequently, variety of students), honor’s programs for most of the popular majors, appropriate variety of classes, etc etc. once more.</p>
<p>And as a final note, as much as I would like to say I’d love to go to the Stanfords and Harvards of this world, I want to be somewhere where I’ll also be happy, and I don’t think I’d be that happy in a research-focused academically intense. Aaand I’m not the most studious person ever. My GPA would drop faster than Putin’s approval rating.</p>
<p>Pretty much decided I’m do QB… I’ll rank MIT as my first, then Yale and then Princeton… (Don’t really want to apply anywhere it’s binding)</p>
<p>If I don’t become a finalist then I’ll just do my original plan of applying EA to MIT, BC and Gtown. (Along with some safeties/matches)</p>
<p>Looking into Carnegie mellon, Georgia tech, UMD, Cooper Union, RPI, Purdue, Umich, VT for mechanical engineering. My ultimate reach would be MIT</p>
<p>I’m applying to Barnard (reach but I’ll give it a shot!), NYU, BU, Northeastern, Sarah Lawrence, Pace, Suffolk and Simmons (:</p>
<p>Lol read my last post… Meant “pretty much ima do” instead of I’m do… Lol.</p>
<p>And plans are the same; only difference is i’m considering putting UPenn on my QB match list…</p>
<p>I’ve made a list, but I think so far my realistic reach is Penn. Other colleges I’d like to apply to include Cornell, Williams, UChicago, Brown, NYU, Stanford… I actually like a lot of colleges haha.</p>
<p>And of course I’ll take a shot at HYPS, but not putting too much hope in that haha.</p>
<p>NYU Stern but I have like a 0% chance of getting in. Guess I’ll be going to my state school of Rutgers!</p>
<p>My reach is Columbia but I highly doubt I can get in. Others I like are nyu stern, uchicago, northeastern, and Baruch. Yeah I like business.</p>
<p>I’m looking into Wellesley, Vassar, Smith, Bryn Mawr, NYU, BU, Michigan (in-state, but don’t really want to attend), Alabama (safety), and Clemson (safety)</p>
<p>Early Decision to Vanderbilt!</p>
<p>I’m still looking for another match/safety, but here’s my list so far:
- MIT (total dream, EA)
- UPenn
- CMU
- Lehigh/Tufts/Georgia Tech
- Rose Hulman
…guess what major I’m going for!</p>
<p>Let’s see…</p>
<ol>
<li>U of Minnesota - Twin Cities</li>
<li>U of Cincinnati Connections Program</li>
<li>Case Western Pre-professional program</li>
<li>University of Iowa</li>
<li>University of Kansas</li>
<li>Augustana College (SD)</li>
<li>University of South Dakota</li>
</ol>
<p>I’d only go to Case Western or Cincinnati if I get into their combined BA/MD programs…if not it’ll probably be either UMinn or UIowa.</p>
<p>MIT, upenn, Stanford, rice, ut Austin, university of Alabama (safety)</p>
<p>The following schools are the options that I will be applying to for admission, in order of preference (either SCEA or RD):</p>
<p>“REACH SCHOOLS”:
- Harvard University (SCEA, of course)
- Yale University
- Princeton University
- Columbia University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Brown University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Stanford University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- California Institute of Technology (CIT)</p>
<p>“SAFE AND UN-DESIRED SCHOOLS”:
12. Hampden-Sydney College
13. Samford University
14. Other unmentioned safe schools that are providing me with special waived applications.</p>
<p>*Everyone wish me luck for admission into Harvard and I wish you luck for admission into your dream schools. You’ll do fine! I promise.</p>
<p>Amherst (ED, most likely)
Pomona
Rice
Carleton
Williams
Middlebury
Grinnell
Swarthmore</p>
<p>Not really into the whole “big college” thing that everyone in Miami seems to love.</p>