<p>I was in the same position as you last year. Aside from my EA application to Yale, I had decided all of the other schools I was or wasn't going to apply to if I didn't get in, except Harvard. At first I was very anti-Harvard, but one of my teachers whose husband was a Harvard alum and one of my friends who was a freshman at Harvard started pushing me to apply. When I got deferred EA, I was still sort of ambivalent about Harvard, but I figured that there were things I liked and their application wasn't too much extra work so I decided why not apply? I guess what I am trying to say with all this rambling is that if you are ambivalent about applying to a particular school and the cost (in both time and money spent on the application) of applying isn't too great for you, it wouldn't hurt to apply on the off-chance that you end up getting in. By the time April came around and I was accepted at both Harvard and Yale I ended up giving Harvard a much closer look than anticipated and I came very close to choosing to go there instead of Yale.</p>