<p>Lulz, no Gtown EA for me, you can’t EA to Gtown and ED somewhere else.</p>
<p>Gawwd life is rough sometimes.</p>
<p>And yeah, runallday that would be cool if you could.</p>
<p>I actually saw penn when i was visiting my brother at villanova and my friend goes there so he gave me a private tour and showed me the dorms and its really nice! I personally liked it but my parents didnt bc it definitely had a bit of a cold atmosphere, but the campus especially the freshman dorms are gorgeous (freshman live in this quadrangle that looks like a castle!)…the dorms are nice but they have coed floors so i had mixed feelings about that.</p>
<p>Lol haven’t posted on here in a bit. ^.^</p>
<p>This summer I’m definitely visiting MIT (doing a one week summer program there) and Cornell (same reason as MIT)… Probably will visit Harvard, BC and Northeastern while I’m there…</p>
<p>I’ll probably also visit JHU and Gtown because my uncle lives down there, so I can just go visit him and we’ll go together. ^.^ </p>
<p>I really want to visit Yale and Wesleyan, but I probably won’t be able to… <em>sighs</em> They’re some of my top choices…</p>
<p>I don’t understand the hype about the Ivy League…they’re great colleges in all but I feel like you have so many equal or better opportunities elsewhere. Plus I feel they’re not exactly the most exciting campuses around the nation.</p>
<p>Oh well. Must be my inner Midwesterner speaking.</p>
<p>For my common app I think I’ll write a few drafts, one for each topic, and then go with the best one. I was told by my counsellor 250-500 words, try not to go over by much (he has a lot of experience, and from what I can tell is good, he’s worked as a college admissions officer and a high school college counsellor for around 20 years). I was just wondering what you guys thought since most people I’ve heard on CC have essays over 500, like around 800, and say that they don’t really care since 500 was a suggestion.</p>
<p>I’m actually going to visit a lot of colleges this summer:
Trip 1: JHU, Georgetown, Penn
Trip 2: Northwestern and UChicago
Trip 3 (Not in the summer, more likely around september or october): Rice
Trip 4 (close enough to be a day trip and just randomly decide to go): Tufts and Brandeis</p>
<p>I’m in a really good location for college visits, although not for much else. Boston is only 2 hours away, and Penn is only 4-5 hours away by car. The only one that’s far for us is Rice, but that’s my top choice, so we’re gonna fly down.</p>
<p>I’ve never posted on this thread before…hi! ^^</p>
<p>I live right next door to Stanford (my dream school), but this summer I’ll be in Nantucket so I’ll get to visit schools in NY, Mass, maybe Connecticut.</p>
<p>Hi welcome to this thread. Senior '13 FTW.</p>
<p>@runallday: CCers are overachievers. You should just let your essay flow naturally (don’t count).</p>
<p>Obstructions, I don’t see that much hype here. I mean my reach list is about half Ivies (4 of them), half similar schools (Georgetown, Williams, Amherst, etc.). Ivies are some of the best in the country so of course people want to go there. But of course we realize that they aren’t the ONLY top schools.</p>
<p>I really don’t even like the ivies that much. When I was there a lot of them seemed strangely “fratty” for having kids that smart. I was on a tour at Dartmouth, and our tour guide seemed like he’d been drinking a little, but not too bad, but then his drunk frat brothers were shouting things at our tour group from across the quad. It’s not really the drinking I had a problem with, more the meathead frat guys.</p>
<p>^ Then you don’t like Dartmouth, not all the ivys… right?</p>
<p>So should I send scores from the Subject Tests from a few days ago? The four free ones. If I have them I might as well send them now while I won’t have to pay $10 for each.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how many of you are also female, but I’m curious:</p>
<p>Anyone looking at women’s colleges? I really love Wellesley, and I’m looking into Barnard and Mount Holyoke.</p>
<p>No. The thought of going to school with only females is not appealing.</p>
<p>I love Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke’s campuses. The loving stops there.</p>
<p>I’m sorta looking at women’s colleges. They aren’t ideal for me, but Bryn Mawr is very good for what I want to major in and I really like Wellesley. However, I would rather go co-ed.</p>
<p>See, I don’t really mind either way. I just want to go where I feel I’ll fit.</p>
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Well, I visited Brown expecting that to be one of my top choices, since I’d really liked the things I heard about it, but then once I was there the tour guide and the girl in the information session were both really weird, and I didn’t think that campus was that great.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have a chance at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.</p>
<p>Cornell seems to be pretty fratty, but I don’t know. It’s all the way in isolated and freezing ithaca though.</p>
<p>Columbia didn’t make my list for some reason, don’t even remember why.</p>
<p>Visiting Penn in a couple of days.</p>
<p>Overall I don’t hate them, but out of all the top schools I like other top schools more than I like them.</p>
<p>^Yeah, but the point is that you should like or dislike each school individually, not as a block because of their name. </p>
<p>I personally love Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, and Brown. Each has something to offer that I find extraordinary. </p>
<p>I do not think I would enjoy Princeton, Cornell, or Columbia, so I’m not applying. </p>
<p>This all really has nothing to do with whether or not they’re ivy.</p>
<p>I was thinking about woman’s colleges, but then I realized that I would HATE that. Lol. I like Wellesley and Smith, but not enough to overlook the whole no boys thing… lmao</p>
<p>I’m not gonna lie, I HATE people who hate the ivy leagues; I feel like their reasons are never good enough… I can understand if you hate some or even most, but really? Out of 8 of them, you don’t like even 1 of them? >…></p>
<p>Btw, applying to HYP definitely, and possibly (depending on how EA goes) UPenn, Brown and Dartmouth… Poor Cornell and Columbia… Kind of funny how the two ivy leagues I dislike are the ones in the state I live in… (I may change my mind about Cornell though since I’m spending a week there. ^.^)</p>