<p>Schools I would REALLY be happy to go to:
Stanford
Williams
Penn
Princeton</p>
<p>I have different tiers for my schools. There’s tier 1, where I’d be thrilled to go. Tier 2 where I’d be happy, but a little sad since I feel like I could have done better (or maybe it’s a top school, but I just don’t like it that much). And tier 3, where I know I should have gotten into a better school, and I’ll be sad.</p>
<p>Tier 1
- Rice
- WUSTL
- Northwestern
- Duke
- Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Tier 2
- Emory
- UChicago
- Tufts</p>
<p>Tier 3
- Brandeis
- UMiami
- Tulane
- Rochester</p>
<p>These are all the schools still on my list. I’m getting rid of probably 1 from tier 3, and 1 from tier 1 (Chicago or Duke).</p>
<p>Definitely applying to UPenn and Brown.
Considering Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, UMary, UPitt, BU
And safeties: Drexel and RIT</p>
<p>I’m trying to cut down to 6 or 7 colleges. :(</p>
<p>I feel like I have my list now! WUSTL, Baylor, Belmont, Oklahoma Christian University, Southwestern, and UNT. I think I would probably be happy any of these places 
Still some visits to go on, though.</p>
<p>my top 3 are:
University of San Francisco
Western Washington University
George Washington University</p>
<p>Current list: </p>
<p>Stanford: I love Stanford aside from the obvious reasons–academics, opportunities, etc-- because a) it’s close to home, and b) it’s where family went.
Pomona: Great academics, love the campus, especially the community atmosphere.
Claremont McKenna: Kind of the same reasons as Pomona. For the most part, what you get at Pomona you can get at CMC across the street.
UC Davis: Love the campus, near where I live, great academics, I can get in.
UCLA: Not a huge fan of the city, but UCLA is such a bubble that you don’t feel overwhelmed. But a great school otherwise, I can see myself there. Also they have a nursing program.
UCI: Haven’t been there. I hear it’s nice, and they have a nursing program.
UCSC: I love the campus, it’s got a really relaxed feel, but great academics as well. Near home.
WUSTL: Haven’t visited (though got invited to Discovery Weekend) but looks really pretty, and has great academics. Also I like St. Louis.
Rice: Similarly, I haven’t been there, nor do I enjoy immense heat. Texas isn’t my kind of state (to put it lightly) but Houston is a nice city. And I know Rice is a great school with a lot of resources (i.e. Texas Medical Center right down the street, for those medically inclined). I get a great vibe, too, every time I read about Rice, and it’s a gorgeous campus from what I’ve seen.
U of Portland: A little unusual, considering the other schools on my list. But I love Portland, and it’s a nice school with a great nursing program (which is where I’m leaning), but honestly I don’t think I would go there otherwise. </p>
<p>Overall, I don’t like living in cities (more so the really tall cities than the really broad and spread-out cities, that I can do) and I like a good strong community vibe with a great academic atmosphere. Only 3 OOS schools.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Brown, and Yale for sure!</p>
<p>I have too many right now… but here goes, in no particular order:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>William & Mary</li>
<li>U Virginia</li>
<li>UNC Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>G’town</li>
<li>Yale (the YOLO application)</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>U Washington - Seattle</li>
<li>Tufts ??</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins ??</li>
<li>Bucknell ??</li>
<li>U Maryland ??</li>
<li>Rice ??</li>
</ol>
<p>And all the UCs</p>
<p>School I really want to go to:
Florida Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Second Choice schools that I wouldn’t mind going to:
Millersville University
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
California University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Third Choices:
Western Connecticut State University
SUNY Oneonta
Rutgers</p>
<p>Emory/Oxford.
Close to home, Atlanta city, Little Ivy, Best Top-notch education in southeast other than Duke, all my majors…Oh, and if I don’t get accepted into Emory I can always go to Oxford and transfer. :)</p>
<p>MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Columbia.</p>
<p>My safeties are Hunter College and Stony Brook. If I don’t get into my reaches, I’ll try to transfer from my safeties. Is anyone else in a position similar to mine?</p>
<p>Rice, WUSTL, Rhodes (the St.Jude program sounds amazing!), and Yale are my top choices currently! I have a few safeties, but these are my “dream” schools ;D.</p>
<p>I think I might apply for Northwestern also, I need to look more into the school :)</p>
<p>Reaches: Yale, UPenn
Targets: UNC, Duke, UVA
Safeties: App State, NC State</p>
<p>Probably going to end up at UNC because it’s so inexpensive.</p>
<p>I really want to go to NCSU! May not be Brown or Stanford, but that’s literally my dream school.</p>
<p>UVM, Pitt, UMaryland, Rutgers-Newark, NYU, Lehigh, UCB, UCSD</p>
<p>Not sure if I’m going straight to a 4yr from high school but I’m thinking of majoring in (marine) biology</p>
<p>Harvard
Wellesley
Boston College
Tufts
Yale
Barnard
UChicago
Northeastern
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Mount Holyoke
Brown
Princeton
SUNY Geneseo</p>
<p>There’s more schools I’d still like to apply to beyond this…I need help.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech
UGA
Which are likely because of the HOPE scholarship.
But I wanna go to MIT
Other options are the Ivies, or else I really have no justification for spending so much money on education.</p>
<p>Stanford, too!!!</p>
<p>Dreams that will never come true:
Harvey Mudd, Olin College</p>
<p>Schools that I’d still like to go to, but won’t–
Rice University, Northwestern</p>
<p>Schools I’d like to go to when the dreams don’t come true:
University of Washington Seattle (in state, woohoo!), Case Western University</p>
<p>School that I’d still like even when I get rejected from everywhere else:
RPI</p>