<p>Pretty much of all them. One of them (Harvard) EA.</p>
<p>For me, I just wanna go to a college with a good admit rate for med school. The ivies have the best med school admit rates in the nation so it's really a no-brainer.</p>
<p>upenn, columbia (?) and princeton - though that one'll be a reach</p>
<p>3 ivies for me! Harvard EA, then Princeton and Cornell RD. I didn't like any of the others.</p>
<p>Maybe 1, Penn</p>
<p>The thing with applying to all of them is that if the adcoms can see that you're applying to all 8, then they probably think you're just spamming the ivys and hoping that at least one will take you. It's silly, each school has its strengths, and people who don't look for the +'s and -'s of each are going to be sorely disappointed.</p>
<p>I'm applying to 2 now. It was a hard decision, but it came down to I realized...I didn't like one of my safeties. After my visit, I just go the feeling I didn't belong there. And I said I'd cut my list off at 7, and yale was #8, so it now moves up a space. :D</p>
<p>"The thing with applying to all of them is that if the adcoms can see that you're applying to all 8, then they probably think you're just spamming the ivys and hoping that at least one will take you."</p>
<p>Yeah, but they won't see that I'm applying to all eight. And anyway what's wrong with applying to all eight?</p>
<p>"It's silly, each school has its strengths, and people who don't look for the +'s and -'s of each are going to be sorely disappointed."</p>
<p>Ummm, yeah, I've done that, and I like all of them. Some, like Harvard, are better than others which is why I'm putting them higher up on my list. </p>
<p>IMHO, all that find the college that "fits you" crap is way overrated...</p>
<p>harvard is way overrated...</p>
<p>Oooh, ouch, I just got SMACKED DOWN ;)</p>
<p>For one, the FIRST QUESTION I was asked at my interview for MIT was "where else are you applying, what's our competition?". Don't some apps also have a space for you to put down the colleges which you will apply to?</p>
<p>I agree with your last comment, people will fit in wherever they go, I'm actually a big supporter of "finding your match school is BS". BUT I'm saying that people should take time to research them, because then they'd realize that, for example, Brown has a weird diploma (where you don't get a specific degree, just a brown diploma (I'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong)) and accepts APs for only elective credit. And that's reason enough for me not to apply there. Or that some Ivies don't have strong programs for the subject they want to major in. They can only save time and money.</p>
<p>"For one, the FIRST QUESTION I was asked at my interview for MIT was "where else are you applying, what's our competition?". </p>
<p>Well, here's how you can handle that question. If it's in an interview, you give them a selection of where you're applying i.e. say something like "well, i'm applying to a couple of other places, Caltech, uhhh, Brown.." but then you end with " but MIT is my first choice". If you're applying EA or ED then that last one will be self-evident, and they wouldn't ask you the question to begin with. If it's RD, they might ask the question but you need to end with "MIT is my first choice". It doesn't matter if it really isn't, you just tell them that it is. After all, how are they gonna know? They have no way of knowing that it really is your first choice, and if you get accepted but decline to enroll; what are they gonna do about it? After all, people change their minds all the time.</p>
<p>The whole question of "Where else are you applying" is B.S., because it encourages colleges to practice strategic admissions where they're not admitting the best ppl but rather only those who they <em>think</em> will go there if accepted. Princeton does this in their admissions process and it's total crap.</p>
<p>"Don't some apps also have a space for you to put down the colleges which you will apply to?"</p>
<p>If an app asks you that, list colleges that are <em>lower</em> in ranking/prestige than the one you're applying to. i.e. if applying to MIT, you might list RIT and Cornell. Of course, you can always neglect to put any colleges down. It probably won't count against you. Again, if you're applying ED then none of this matters since you're bound to go the college anyway. </p>
<p>"I agree with your last comment, people will fit in wherever they go,"</p>
<p>Wow, I'm surprised, I thought you were gonna chew me out for that. Glad to see that there are other people on CC who feel the same way.</p>
<p>"I agree with your last comment, people will fit in wherever they go,"</p>
<p>to an extent i agree with this, there'll always be similar people, but in some schools, these people are a lot harder to find. going to a school that you truly fit/truly fits you is the difference between being satisfied and being really really content. while someone'll fit in at first, they might not like the overall experience as much as they could. ie, i think that i could be happy at a lac or small-town school (middlebury or princeton) but i think i'd be HAPPIER in a city school, where there's a lot more to do..</p>
<p>^I agree. I know I could be happy anywhere, but I want to go somewhere where I belong the most. Where I can be at my full potential of fitting in and happiness. Personally, I think transferring is stupid (in most cases) and I want to get it right the first time.</p>
<p>Okay take it from an older person, fit is really important.</p>
<p>If you want a city, diversity, liberal students, to not need a car, large school, there are certain places where you will be happy and certain places where you will be miserable.</p>
<p>Even amongst the Ivies, there are differences - if you like Penn odds are you won't like Cornell because Penn is in Philly and Cornell is in, well Ithaca.</p>
<p>It's really important that you choose a school that you can really see yourself at, and isn't just ranked high or has pretty buildings. There's a lot more to it than that. You are spending the next 4 years there so you need to look at the entire environment and decide what you want and don't want.</p>
<p>maverach......</p>
<p>I know that you HAVE a major, but is it true that you don't get a specific degree :(</p>
<p>could anyone elaborate on this?</p>
<p>Honestly, there are schools just as good and some better than the Ivies. Sure, they are the cream of the crop, but some people seem to have a narrow thought process when it comes to applying to schools, meaning they have to get into an Ivy.</p>
<p>whartonalum, mystic merlin - agreed with both points. i know people who are applying to all the ivies..and just going to whichever will accept them, which i think is silly. a waste of application money etc. however, their argument (which's brought up on the board) is that they'll fit in anywhere...so whatev, applying everywhere is not for me, but it's their money...</p>
<p>personally, i want a city school with good ir/politics and gov' classes...which explains columbia, penn, gtown, as well as ut-austin, gwu and american for safeties</p>
<p>I was told I was too concerned with fit- I was a rebel. hehe. :)</p>
<p>I'm only applying to one ivy, Brown University. I like the no core and no distribution requirement policies, and based on what I read, I really like the environment..hopefully I will get to visit it before applying.</p>
<p>one cornell.. regular</p>
<p>two, Upenn and Yale EA</p>