<p>Okay, so it's time for me to start looking into colleges. The problem is, I can't narrow down!
Can someone help me sort these colleges into: hard to get in, medium competition, back up schools. Also, boot any colleges?</p>
<p>Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell university
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Johns Hopkins
Duke
UVA
New York University
UNC -- Chapel Hill
MIT
Tufts University
Berkeley College
Georgetown
W&M
Wellesley University
Rutgers University New Brunswick
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Tech
Randolph Macon College</p>
<p>Seems like you’re applying to the top level. That’s fine, but you’re going to get different feels from all those schools. Just go and visit everything you can and get a general feel of every type of school, and decide what you actually want.</p>
<p>Um, well this is assuming you’re the average CCer, i.e. a pretty strong applicant</p>
<p>Hard-to-Get-Into:</p>
<p>Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell university
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Johns Hopkins
Duke
MIT
Tufts University
Berkeley College-assuming you mean UC Berkeley and not Berklee
Georgetown
Wellesley University</p>
<p>Mediumish (Keep in mind, for the is for the average CCer):</p>
<p>UVA
New York University
W&M
UNC Chapel Hill</p>
<p>Safeties: </p>
<p>Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Tech
Randolph Macon College</p>
<p>And I second Student92’s advice, these schools are so incredibly different from one another, what’s your prospective major? Do you want city or rural? Large or small?</p>
<p>I would keep New York University, Cornell and a few others. Many that you listed sorta depend on your major.</p>
<p>VA Tech isn’t easy to get in to really…</p>
<p>Well, my major is going to be orthodontics & I’m from VA if that helps any.
I’m pretty much happy anywhere - big, small, city, rural. It doesn’t really atter too much to me,should it though? I feel like I’m too “carefree” about ym college environment.</p>
<p>That’s not a bad thing, assuming you havent visited. When I went into it, I was positive I wanted 40,000 people and for it to be the exact opposite of High School, in the middle of some big city. I ended up looking at 2k-10k schools population wise, all outside of cities but close. But you HAVE to visit a lot of places or you’re always going to just be going off of “oh, this brochure looks nice.” Even if you can’t visit your top places, visit a variety of places close to you to find out what you want</p>
<p>Brown University–HARD
Columbia University–HARD
Cornell university–HARD
Dartmouth College–HARD
Harvard University–HARD
Princeton University–HARD
University of Pennsylvania–HARD
Yale University–HARD
Johns Hopkins–HARD
Duke–HARD
UVA–HARD
New York University–Medium
UNC – Chapel Hill–HArd if you’re OOS
MIT–HARD
Tufts University–Medium
Berkeley College–UC? hard if OOS
Georgetown–HARD
W&M–Medium if OOS
Wellesley University–HARD
Rutgers University – New Brunswick–BACK UP
Virginia Commonwealth University–BACK UP
Virginia Tech–BACK UP
Randolph Macon College–BACK UP</p>
<p>I very much doubt that you can major in “orthodontics” at any of these schools. The closest you can probably come as an undergraduate is training as a dental hygenist. And not at Ivies or the like. So I’m going to assume that what you actually mean is that you think you might want to go to dental school eventually.</p>
<p>Tufts has a famous Dental School. You might check to see if they have any kind of cooperative programs with their undergrad program. I know they do with their Fletcher School.</p>
<p>Wellesley is a college, not a university, by the way, and Berkeley is a university.</p>
<p>Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale do not seem like obvious choices for someone who wants to be an orthodontist. (U Penn is more pre-professional, as is Wellesley.) Places like Rutgers and even Berkeley don’t make any financial sense to me for an OOS student who has the choices presented by VA state schools. Christopher Newport has some kind of “guaranteed acceptance to med school” program, I believe. You might want to look into it.</p>
<p>From my perspective, I recommend you ask yourself some simple questions:
- What kind of weather do I enjoy?
- What kind of environment do I like? i.e., city (congestion, lots of shopping, 24H nightlife, etc…) or country (quiet, lots of green fields and trees, and rivers, etc…)
- What kind of people do I want to be around? (diversity, ethnicity %'s are important.) i.e., if you’re Korean, you likely do not want to attend a school with 35% Asians like the UC’s.</p>
<p>Dorms and the quality of the food is important too, so ask which schools have good dorms, especially for incoming freshmen.</p>
<p>and lastly, which schools afford me the course of study I want to pursue?</p>
<p>Beyond these basic Q’s, you’ll also need to work out financial aid, acceptance rates, etc…</p>
<p>Much too much too include here…</p>