<p>Plan to study either Chemical or Electrical Engineering. SAT practice tests have been around 1480-1500 out of 1600. Ranked 32/550 in public hs in MD. </p>
<p>Visited so far:
Carnegie Mellon (one of my top choices)
Tufts (one of my top choices)
Michigan (will probably apply)
BU (will probably apply)
Maryland (will probably apply as a safety)
MIT (hated it!)
Pitt (hated it!)</p>
<p>Plan to visit:
Chicago
Brown
Case Western Reserve
Penn State
Cornell</p>
<p>Planning on Applying in No Particular Order </p>
<p>UCLA
UCSD
Michigan State University
Indiana University
Purdue University
University of Iowa
University of Wisconsin - Madison
USC
Mizzou
Culinary Institute of America
Institute for Culinary Education
Northern Illinois University </p>
<p>im planning on doing something involving either secondary education, business/economics, or culinary arts. its a nice feeling to have options open. </p>
<p>(as if you already didn’t know, im from the Midwest.)</p>
<p>Visited:
Williams – Beautiful campus, but too much like my prep school.
Amherst – A bit too small for me.
UPenn – Visited a million times by now. (Parent is a professor.)
Barnard – Very pretty, but I don’t think I want to be in NY for college.
Columbia – Ditto. ^</p>
<p>Planning to visit:
Princeton
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
Wheaton College
Vanderbilt
American University
George Washington University</p>
<p>Know I’ll Apply:
Wheaton College (legacy)
UPenn CAS ED (legacy)
Georgetown</p>
<p>Those are the only definite choices for me. I’ll definitely need to visit more places before I decide the others.</p>
<p>My list so far is as follows (I haven’t had a chance to do a lot of visits yet):</p>
<p>MIT
UPenn
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
RPI (visited, seemed nice. probably will apply as a safety)
Lehigh (visited, liked it. probable safety)
GA Tech
UC Berkely
Penn State</p>
<p>Usual HYPSM-esque stuff I’m not going to get into
Wellesley/Smith/Mount Holyoke and other women’s colleges
Harvey Mudd
Reed
Case Western Reserve
Ohio State
University of Michigan
Georgia Tech
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Have not visited any of them.</p>
<p>Harvard-visited, pretty nice,-probably will apply(won’t get in)
MIT-visited, loved it,-definitely applying
UPenn-visited, very nice,-applying
Penn state-visited, really like it,-definitely applying
Tufts-visited, didn’t like it at all- not applying
Brown- haven’t visited, sounds/looks nice with good programs
UConn- haven’t visited, good math program
Northeastern-visited, really nice campus, probably won’t apply though</p>
<p>I feel like I have a lot of reaches, off the top of your head do you any good Northeastern/Atlantic colleges for math/physics that could be safeties? Pennstate and Uconn are probable safety/matches, along with northeastern. Upenn, Brown are mid reaches, with Harvard and MIT being pretty far off.</p>
<p>So far I’ve visited:
Wooster- nice, actually loved it, would consider applying if it weren’t so close to home lol
Kenyon- People seemed super smart, but the campus was way too small and people actually seemed too studious to me. Like, they would read Homer for hours and never take any breaks.
Miami (OH)- (dad’s alum) probably my in-state school, safety. Gorgeous campus and small school feel but with lots of people.</p>
<p>Plan on visiting:
in February- Stanford, Santa Clara, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Occidental
Spring Break- American U, Georgetown, William & Mary, Duke, Davidson, Wake Forest</p>
<p>And I’m really starting to be interested in Barnard or Columbia maybe? I never thought I would want to go to school in a huge city, but something just keeps drawing me there… dunno if I’ll have time to visit though.</p>
<p>Visited
NYU
LIU
Harvard
MIT
Pace
Stonybrook
RPI
Howard
Northeastern
Plan on visiting
Columbia
Fordham
UChicago
Northwestern</p>
<p>University of Montana! 
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<p>If you haven’t looked at Montana schools DO IT!!!</p>
<p>I did apply to CSU Chico.</p>
<p>Regards,
BettyfromCA</p>
<p>Visited:
<p>Plan to Apply:
<p>@halcyonheather, I live in the Columbus area and i have a sibling who goes to OSU. She went to Miami her freshman year and hated it, transferred to OSU and loves it. So I’ve been there like a hundred times so if you have any questions I could probably answer some for you.</p>
<p>I’ve visited:
Cornell
Columbia
Princeton
Yale
MIT
Harvard
UMD</p>
<p>I have a lot of dreams as to where I’d like to go, but I’m not sure how practical (or where I really stand in the pool of applicants), but I’d like to apply to Princeton/Yale (probably too much of a reach), Columbia, MIT, and Duke. UMD for safety.</p>
<p>@efeens44 Would you mind sharing what your sister hated about Miami University? I’m actually considering applying there.</p>
<p>So I posted a while back but I’ve already changed my mind 
Here’s my list now - no particular order:
UCSD
Pomona/Scripps/Pitzer
Brown
Yale
UCLA
Wellesley
Tufts
Rice
Wesleyan
U of Rochester
Vanderbilt
UWash in St. Louis
Macalester
Case Western Reserve
UChicago
U Puget Sound</p>
<p><em>Possible Safeties</em>
CSU Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
CSU Cal Poly Pomona
Sonoma State University
San Jose State University
CSU Long Beach
CSU LA
CSU San Diego
UA Birmingham</p>
<p>I should probably add safer safeties.</p>
<p>I’m in California, so I’ve only visited California college/universities…</p>
<p>I just remembered I did visit UC Berkeley (on a school fieldtrip, but still, there were students there so I got the feel of it. There was this dude with a cool computer set up… he didn’t have to get out of bed to use it. hahaha)</p>
<p>I’m probably just going to visit Penn and Carnegie Mellon. Penn (Wharton) because it’s my first choice and CMU because it’s not too far and it factors in demonstrated interest. I don’t want to waste the time and money in visiting other colleges that I know I’ll enjoy.</p>
<p>I’ve visited The City College of NY
Queens College
Pace university ( westchester)
Hofstra university
SUNY cortland
SUNY oneonta
SUNY New Paltz
The College of saint rose
Russell sage </p>
<p>If anyone would like to know about these schools feel free to PM me!</p>
<p>@FollowtheReaper, to be honest I don’t really know. She had gotten the top scholarship they offered at the time (half tuition i think) and roomed with a good friend from high school. I guess they had problems and she ended up hating her entire living situation.</p>
<p>She also hates the Greek aspect. Something like 75% of kids there go Greek and she didn’t want to, so she kind of felt left out of the “social loop” when she didn’t rush. So maybe it has a high school-type vibe? I don’t know. Personally, Miami seems to me like a bunch of collar-popping preppy guys and bimbo chicks; regardless, I’ll probably apply there too.</p>
<p>It should be noted my sister is really dramatic and probably made a big deal out of something that didn’t warrant it haha.</p>
<p>So far, I’ve visited…
George Washington University (meh.)
George Mason (I felt like I was in a bubble)
Goucher (don’t even get me started)
I visited these with my grade, so I didn’t have much of a choice. I’m planning on visiting some more on my own in March.
Anyway, this is my list of schools I’m planning on applying to:
UChicago
Columbia University
Carnegie Mellon University
MIT (maybe)
UGA
NYU
Emory University
Rensselaer Polytechnic</p>
<p>From New Jersey, So I am looking at NJ and PA.</p>
<p>So far…</p>
<p>TCNJ- loved it, my mom didn’t but I liked it a lot
Rutgers (New Brunswick)- been there for games, a little too crazy for me
Montclair- my sister goes there, love it. brand new dorms and many new facilities for freshman
Lehigh- soon to visit!
Lafayette- beautiful, but very old</p>