<p>Oh, I should have mentioned that. I am averse to leaving the eastern half of the US: the joke I tell my mom is that I don’t plan to go west of the Mississippi river, haha. That’s why Stanford and Pomona are not on the list, although I love all that the two have to offer, particularly Pomona. Schools like Hamilton and Colgate are too close to home for me to consider, though, if that gives you a good idea of my geographic area. I applied to the fly-ins at Macalaster and Amherst, as well as Williams. University of Chicago in my opinion seems like a place where fun goes to die, as awful is that is to say lol. Swarthmore should have been on that list, as well as Northwestern and Northeastern. </p>