<p>So…what colleges are you interested in?</p>
<p>I am currently thinking:</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd
Caltech
MIT
Stanford
UC Berkely
Rice
Yale
NYU
Harvard
Case Western
Georgia Tech
U Chicago
UCLA
Texas
UNC</p>
<p>There is also Cornell, Columbia, Michigan and Duke, but this list is sorta accurate.</p>
<p>I just have three so far…</p>
<p>Harvard
Cornell
Stanford…maybe?</p>
<p>I think that about 30 relatives of mine have attended Cornell.</p>
<p>Wow! Must help with legacies</p>
<p>Stanford is my #1 because:
-Top Engineering Department
-Top Humanities Department
-Great Financial Aid
-California Weather
-Silicon Valley Nearby
-Great Networking Opportunity</p>
<p>What would you major in there? I think I’d go with economics or Computer science</p>
<p>Yeah I was thinking that or Electrical Engineering+CompSci or EE+Economics or Theoretical Physics and Game Theory.</p>
<p>Applied Mathematics also sounds good and I’d likely get a PhD in most of those subjects.</p>
<p>Or start a company.</p>
<p>hi everyone! 
new member - been lurking for awhile and finally decided to join :D</p>
<p>Harvard: dad went to the medical school after graduating from Peking University in China
MIT: I have a bunch of relatives who go there
Johns Hopkins
Tokyo University: impossiblru haha but I love the idea of going overseas esp in Japan
NYU
Columbia
Boston University: A more realistic choice.</p>
<p>@Apollo11: at school I’m not terribly popular. I’m mostly known for being the brains of the class. Oh, and my friend says I’m the quiet type that can get away with things. I think that describes me accurately.</p>
<p>I think I’m fairly popular, like I’m not like the person who gets invited to all the parities but everyone knows me and I usually have people to talk to or hang around. But I don’t care enough about people to really get myself involved. My top schools so far are
Stanford university
Upenn
Northwestern
UCLA
Duke
Rice
Emory
Boston college
Georgetown
Rutgers
My choices are pretty much all over the place but all except one are D1 schools with good-great academics. The first 5 are like my top schools exactly in that order</p>
<p>Rutgers is like a safety school for me, it’s a state college</p>
<p>I don’t have much of an idea of where I want to attend college yet, but I guess that’s okay since I’m only a freshman. I’ll definitely be applying to Penn State though since I’m a PA resident and it would be a good safety. </p>
<p>Just curious, what year do you typically start searching for colleges, like attending information sessions, going on campus tours, etc.?</p>
<p>I’m trying to keep my options open for now. However, I know that Ohio state will be my safety school.</p>
<p>Do you guys know what you want to major in? I’m thinking about majoring in biology and then minoring in computer science.</p>
<p>It’s been a week since I’ve been on CC!!</p>
<p>I would like to go to Eastern Michigan University to Major in Secondary Music Education (high school band director) :)</p>
<p><em>bump</em>
<em>bump</em></p>
<p>@rykun At my school (private school) people typically get into college stuff junior year but I hear that pressure starts sophomore year, when the courses get harder and your grade actually matters. The administration is very adamant about the college process, if you don’t go to college everyone will think there’s something wrong with you. Which explains our 100% college acceptance rate.</p>
<p>So…
Are any of you in EPGY @ Stanford or CTY @ John’s Hopkins?</p>
<p>EPGY and CTY are gifted youth programs that allow students to take challenging courses like Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra. We also go to summer camps where we have intensive courses and there is a whole international group of us and we talk often, kinda like CC.</p>
<p>I was in CTY, I’m pretty sure it ends in 9th or 10th grade. I took the SAT in 7th and 8th but this year the SATs counts like it on my permanent record</p>
<p>CTY ends in 12th grade, but yeah the SAT for that is excused by colleges</p>