<p>ilovebagels: Thanks haha, yes I really like Business. To me it’s more fun than it is work. Wharton is awesome because I would be able to receive a great liberal arts foundation as well as excellent Business resources and opportunities.</p>
<p>eatsalot: Is that true? I hear Brown is just as much a target as Duke is.</p>
<p>Haha Harvard1009, these two quotes are from you:</p>
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<p>it definitely struck me that you hadn’t listed the university of chicago.
i can’t say all that much about it (i’ll only be starting now in september,) but the economics program is world-renowned. yes, said program is a more “conservative”/classically liberal one, but the UC as a whole is a university that prides itself on critical thought. and the place is quirky as hell. in any case, as far as admissions sells it, you’ll actually end up having those nobel prize winners as your professors as well.</p>
<p>-might be too cold for what you’re looking for, though. XD though i’ve never really been to new hampshire in deep winter… i don’t know how it gets there. then again, i don’t know how bad it is in chicago, either.</p>
<p>-that whole “where fun comes to die” thing is bull. i met a group of girls on an april overnight <em>chicago asked me to pay like twenty? bucks, thirty at the most, and they flew me out there. i live in western mass.</em> so these girls really bought into that idea, and were all like, yeah, we’re going to northwestern, because they party. at the end of the day, i partied harder than they did, as did a bunch of other already-at-chicago cats.</p>
<p>-a lot of uc also looks like hogwarts. and some of it doesn’t. i think it’s rad.</p>
<p>-if you make 20,000 a year, you go free.</p>
<p>check it out for yourself, though. =)</p>
<p>my list at the end of my sophomore year was at like, 30. i did a study abroad thing in germany for a year, came back junior summer, and was at around 15 at that point. i only ended up completing the app process for six.</p>
<p>that was to you, flyingllama, for #38.
i think you’ll be alright. =)</p>
<p>Actually, my bad. I did some research to reaffirm what I said and it seems that Brown does get some recruiting… but it’s supposedly weaker than all the other schools on your list (minus USC).</p>
<p>Here’s a couple of links regarding target schools…</p>
<p>[Comprehensive</a> List of Target Schools | WallStreetOasis.com](<a href=“http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/comprehensive-list-of-target-schools]Comprehensive”>Comprehensive List of Target Schools for Investment Banking | Wall Street Oasis)
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/investment-banking/459445-best-undergraduate-college-investment-banking-hedge-funding.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/investment-banking/459445-best-undergraduate-college-investment-banking-hedge-funding.html</a></p>
<p>eatsalot: Really awesome, thanks. Brown definitely seems to be shaky as a target, while Duke stays strong for IB</p>
<p>aduckonthethames: Thanks for the breakdown. UChicago seems to be a cool school with an amazing econ program, but I don’t think I would fit as the typical UC student… I don’t know. I’ll keep it in my mind, research, and think about it some more.</p>
<p>Can anyone else confirm what Harvard1009 is saying? Are they really going to reject me because I’m applying to these schools at the same time? I’m going through the questbridge process… this kind of list is pretty common for people going through it. Besides Harvard1009, the point of this thread is to shorten my list, I’m probably not going to apply to more than 7 schools or something. And the example you gave doesn’t really confirm anything…haha.</p>
<p>Questbridge application:
MIT
Yale
Princeton
UPenn Wharton
Stanford
Amherst</p>
<p>Common App:
Duke/Brown/Dartmouth</p>
<p>^ If I remove schools, I’d rather do it from these 3. QB schools are free to apply to and I get more essays.</p>
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<p>How is that working for you?</p>
<p>^ Well it’s tough.</p>
<p>Visiting would make things much easier but that’s not possible.</p>
<p>So far I’ve removed Columbia and Harvard.</p>
<p>I’m thinking of removing Brown once and for all, based on “fit”, if that can even be determined without a visit hah. I don’t trust myself at Brown. For some reason, I have this impression that I wouldn’t work hard at Brown. I also still have the impression that the majority is hippy, smokes weed, protests, etc. And apparently, it is not a strong IB target school.</p>
<p>Duke seems great but I’m still partial to spending 4 years in Durham, North Carolina. </p>
<p>Maybe I could remove Duke/Brown because I have to pay for those apps? And I think I have good reasons to cut them.</p>
<p>Yeah, still confused and trying to cut schools, if anyone has direct advice on that.</p>
<p>1) Hardly any hippies, way more hipsters.
2) Weed is as accepted socially as alcohol but not consumed as widely and matches other campuses I’ve attended, personally. </p>
<p>Both 1 and 2 I think are holdovers from things that may have been true at some point but is no longer.</p>
<p>3) Very few protests at Brown, much less active than say, Columbia. People often lament the lack of activism relative to our reputation for being political.</p>
<p>That being said, you need to make a choice that makes sense for you, but make sure now that you have like 10 schools on your list that you extensively research them to cut down to 4 or 5 that make sense (if you ask me).</p>
<p>Btw, I thought Common App just lets you check off schools for one price or something like that… Brown wasn’t common app when I applied and I never filled out one so I don’t know how that works.</p>
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<p>this is coming from the kid who is applying to 11 top tier colleges and is going to talk to his school officials to see if he can become valedictorian even though he has a 3.6 gpa.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/747492-chance-me-new-i-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/747492-chance-me-new-i-will-chance-back.html</a></p>
<p>edit- oh and this is if anyone wants a good laugh</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/758352-valedictorian.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/758352-valedictorian.html</a></p>
<p>Yup… Harvard your name is Harvard, and you don’t even go there. You’re pretty eccentric too by trying to be val with a 3.6whatever. You chase prestige just as much as llama. Even worse than llama, you are hypocritical. This is a problem with college admissions: I have a hard time believing certain people are likeable… (not directed at any particular person)</p>
<p>I don’t know much about “Harvard1009” but honestly, this guy is chasing prestige more than I am. He doesn’t need the financial aid and he’s not looking for IB target schools.</p>
<p>I wish I could fast-forward 9 months into the future, to see the results of all this chaos and madness.</p>
<p>Harvard1009 never said he was applying to 11 top tier schools, he asked what people thought his chances were at those schools in one particular thread. I don’t see how he is chasing prestige and I don’t see how he is hypocritical. It sounds to me like he is trying to come up with a list of schools to apply to.</p>
<p>Harvard1009 has just as much right as anyone else to apply to Harvard. I don’t think he’ll get in either, but I don’t think most people will get into Harvard, but if he wants to go there then I think he should apply.</p>
<p>You’re going to tell me that people on an online forum know the difference between a Harvard and Princeton admissions office? If Harvard1009 wanted to know his chance relative to tiers, then he wouldn’t have posted almost all tier 1 schools. He did in fact ask his chances for each school that he plants apply to in the future. In reality, no one is going to accurately say “accepted to Harvard, denied Yale, waitlisted Princeton.” No one would just make up random schools on their chance thread… That being said, it would be rather injudicious of Harvard1009 to base his applications based on people sitting behind a computer screen, so either way Pea your argument is weak (either Harvard 1009 is hypocritical or he demonstrates poor judgement in allowing a computer forum to dictate his future applications and potentially his future). Atleast llama is using this thread as an opportunity to research various schools.</p>
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<p>There are things called fee-waivers. Looking at your income, I’m pretty sure if you contact Duke, they’ll wave your application fee. One of my friends did this when he applied. Duke was pretty accommodating about it.</p>
<p>Alright, I’m pretty sure this is my final list. I’ve been thinking through all of this for the past few days; I cut quite a few schools and added Columbia.</p>
<p>Questbridge CollegeMatch
<p>+Harvard
+Brown
+USC
+100% full-ride big-state safety</p>
<p>I doubt it’ll change much, but if anyone still has comments for whatever reason, I’ll listen.</p>
<p>Why do you only have bunch of reaches and 1 safety?</p>
<p>Because I’m happy with it. Why would I need multiple safeties where I am guaranteed entrance and scholarship? That would only signify lack of research.</p>
<p>I can only attend a University where I would receive a full ride; no loans. That means either top schools (that I would like to attend) and a guaranteed safety / full ride. I’m also applying to USC which is in the middle, just to see what they do.</p>
<p>It’s different when you’re making as much as we make. I don’t want any debt; I’d rather go to a super-safety and do well there</p>
<p>I appreciate and understand your comment; this isn’t your typical strategy, but I feel it suits my situation best.</p>