Dream school vs real life expectations

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Phanatic:</p>

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Dream: WPI + tons of financial aid.

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<p>My sister went there, and now she's probably going to go to Columbia or J.Hopkins for grad school :) They have a really good engineering program. And, I think she got a full ride there too.</p>

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<p>Hahaha! I love these domain names :D :D</p>

<p>I didn't know they existed...</p>

<p>Dream School: Stanford!
R/L Expectations: Stanford! (soz)</p>

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<p>Dream: Carleton!
Realistic: um, Grinnell or Macalester hopefully. Already in to Kalmazoo so I suppose that's realistic, isn't it?</p>

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<p>Dream : The Johns Hopkins University</p>

<p>Realistic - Loyola, University of Maryland, NYU</p>

<p>I am dead serious in that if not accepted into jhu i will probally need therapy. As pathetic as it is, I have loved the institution since I was six, and have basically set that as my goal in life.</p>

<p>I would still hope to go their for grad if I was potentially rejected.</p>

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<p>Dream: Stanford/Rice</p>

<p>Real: Rice =]</p>

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<p>dream: (Ive got many lol) - columbia. stanford (highly doubt it). Berkely (oos!). Northwestern.
likely: UIUC/Washu?/Umich</p>

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<p>dream: Harvard for neurobiology
likely: Vanderbilt or Rhodes.</p>

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<p>dream school: COlumbia
Realistic: Brown- i just think i'll end up at Brown for some reason. Mayb my family name? lol</p>

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<p>dream: UCLA
real life: penn state</p>

<p>I feel really inferior when reading all these posts and then looking at my level of colleges</p>

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<p>Dream: MIT
Realistic: maybe Cornell or BU</p>

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<p>Dream School: WashU
Reality: WashU (got in already)</p>

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<p>dream: brown/upenn
realistic: university of maryland/vanderbilt</p>

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<p>Dream: Middlebury or Bowdoin
Reality: Kenyon or Wesleyan</p>

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<p>dream: davidson
real life: UGA, gtech(maybe)</p>

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<p>Dream: TULANE!
Realistic: TULANE!
go me haha.</p>

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<p>dream: vandy or duke</p>

<p>realistic: lets hope i get into one of the two. if not id really be happy anywhere so</p>

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<p>dream: rutgers
real life: princeton.
god, life is so unfair.</p>

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<p>hookem168, barbaric "yawp". good call. Dead Poets Society is my favorite movie.</p>

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<p>Dream: Temple University Japan
Realistic: Rollins College or Florida International University</p>

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<p>dream:UCSB
real:UCSB </p>

<p>i have the credentials to get into a much more "prestigious" school and i come from a family with Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard graduates/current students, but there is no way i could find myself at any other school. no way.</p>