<p>Nine or so. I get an application fee waiver, so I was going to go crazy, but then I (sensibly) decided to only apply to schools I really want to go to.</p>
<p>Starfruit: what’s the question that’s crucial to applying to Wesleyan (you can PM me, if you like)?</p>
<p>
Really? I thought the rule also applied for internationals. I guess that’s good news for some people then.</p>
<p>Redoing my list. Made some final cuts. My mom wants me to apply to 4, and I say she’s crazy. She’s a cheapo on app fees. Doesn’t even want to learn about the Financial Aid process, and refuses to listen to me.</p>
<p>So</p>
<p>MIT
Carnegie Mellon
Virginia Tech
George Mason
Yale
UVa
William and Mary
Cambridge
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor</p>
<p>Early Action:</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>UNC Chapel Hill</li>
</ol>
<p>Regular Action if I am admitted into one or both of above:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Possibly Johns Hopkins</li>
</ol>
<p>Regular Action if I am rejected at both early:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Possibly Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>UMD College Park</li>
<li>Villanova</li>
</ol>
<p>Hopefully I get in somewhere early.</p>
<p>Right now it’s between 6 and 9 </p>
<p>MIT
UPenn
Stanford*
CMU
Lehigh
Northwestern*
BU*
Northeastern University
UMass Amherst</p>
<p>*(I’m not sure if I’ll like Northwestern or Stanford and BU is probably going to be too expensive to be my safety)</p>
<p>Right now, I have 14 colleges on my list that I want to apply to. In reality, I don’t want to apply to so many… I want to apply to around 10 colleges. However, since most of the colleges on my list are reaches that my parents are forcing me to apply to, I don’t think it would be wise to eliminate any more colleges from my list.</p>
<p>My list is now:</p>
<p>Northeastern University
NYU
Belmont University
Boston University
William and Mary (my dad went there so he’s encouraging me to apply…)
Drexel University
University of Arizona</p>
<p>I’m pretty much in at Belmont which makes me happy since I like the school and they have a great music business program 
UofA is like my back up safety in case I randomly get rejected everywhere else, lol.</p>
<p>So, am I the only one <em>not</em> applying to an Ivy League or HYPSUM?</p>
<p>
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<p>Ahhh what’s with all these youngins making such final decisions!!! Chill out guys, you still have another year and you will likely change in the next year…</p>
<p>^^ That’s not necessarily true. People should prepare for paying for college, ie saving money so it won’t be such a huge surprise when acceptances/rejections roll in.</p>
<p>I think it’s incredibly silly and funny when one just lists the top 20 schools and adds a safety like BU. Actually pretty naive. BU is insanely expensive, it’d make a horrible safety school (safety schools are meant to be cheap… spend same money as you would with HYP??)</p>
<p>I only know what school I will def. apply to:</p>
<p>Upenn</p>
<p>Other schools I have yet to visit:</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Yale
Stanford
Columbia
Umich</p>
<p>Current plan:</p>
<p>EA to Umich (sorta safety), MIT
RD to Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia</p>
<p>I ask all of you who have more than eight schools on your list.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>I am not applying to HYPSUM (what’s the U?) or Ivy leagues.</p>
<p>@CharlesCO-no, I’m not, either.</p>
<p>
I’m not applying to more than 8 schools or any HYPSM, but when you get to the top tier of colleges admission tends to be a crapshoot, and people think that if they apply to all of the top-tiers they’ll make it into at least one…more often than not I just hear of those kinds of people not getting into any top tiers or most of them rather than a few, though. So yeah, I agree with that question.</p>
<p>With the number of applications per person rising I wonder if the process will be different in a decade or so, or if it’ll just be more competitive (or less since the economy may be better).</p>
<p>That being said…I’m considering a couple of UCs (ranging from safety to reach), one or two top tier privates (I have a subpar unweighted GPA, almost no ECs, and a half-decent SAT score for top tiers, so I’m heavily relying on my essays/arts supplement to distinguish me there), one or two lesser private(s) for merit aid (and a small chance at going out of state), and a Cal State for super-safety. I’m pretty calm about the admissions thing because I figure if I get into one of my safety schools (all of which are fine with me location-and-personality wise), with or without the honors program I can always double-major if I don’t find the academics challenging enough.</p>
<p>I agree with @LaTina as well. Applying to every single Ivy isn’t going to help anyone. I also have a hard time believing that everyone who applies to multiple HPYSM et al feels that s/he would truly fit in at any of those (beyond just the fact that it’s HPYSM).</p>
<p>I have less than a year before I start applying. I made MIT my top choice at the age of 8.</p>
<p>I’m pretty positive of my other 8 choices. And I would love to be apart of all of them.</p>
<p>Early decision: Amherst College</p>
<p>But if I’m deferred or rejected</p>
<p>Maybe Early decision II: Pomona College
or maybe I’ll stick it out for regular decisions at</p>
<p>Wesleyan University
Bowdoin College
Vassar College
Swarthmore College
Stanford
University of Virginia
(greatest to least desire to go)</p>
<p>With safeties at</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr, Haverford, SUNY Binghamton, and SUNY Albany</p>
<p>for a total of 12 schools I suppose.</p>
<p>Reach: MIT, Caltech, Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>high match: Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Easy match: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Northeastern, Georgia Tech, NYU-Poly</p>
<ol>
<li>10 in USA 5 in Canada (all Canadian ones are safeties except McGill which is a match)</li>
</ol>