<p>What schools would you apply to?</p>
<p>I would apply to:
UCLA
UCB
Stanford
UPenn
Colby
Duke
Vanderbilt
UMichigan
Columbia
Georgetown</p>
<p>(I originally applied to NYU, Barnard, GWU, American, USC, UWisonsin-Madison, UMass- Amherst)</p>
<p>Basically, I think I sold myself short. I didn't apply to any ivys or really selective schools. Its always worth a shot.</p>
<p>Stanford, UCLA, Duke.</p>
<p>Maybe UC-San Diego and Tufts.</p>
<p>But I'm not going to regret anything. I recently got into McGill University and that is exactly where I wanted to go.</p>
<p>If I could do the college application process over again....I wouldn't. Once is enough!</p>
<p>But yeah I guess if I knew then what I know now, I'd have applied early action to a number of schools rather than going single choice with Harvard. I really don't like the waiting....</p>
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<p>YES! I couldn't agree more. ;)</p>
<p>But honestly, I would have kept my list the exact same...except I would have added one more, USC. That's my only regret. :(</p>
<p>I wouldn't have applied early decision to the school i'm going to and i would have applied several more places, some "better", some "not better". I cannot get over the feeling that I completely limited my choices. It may be because I am one of the most indecisive comitment-retarded people in the world, but there it is.</p>
<p>ED may limit your horizons too early, but EA and SCEA can be wonderful.</p>
<p>I would apply to Vanderbilt, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Cornell, and Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>I applied to Case, Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, MIT, Princeton, WashU, Vanderbilt, University of Tennessee, and Rice.</p>
<p>I wasted my time with some schools I wouldn't want to go to because I thought I might get merit aid, but I was pretty sure I could afford Vanderbilt anyways, and I'd choose Vanderbilt over them anyday.</p>
<p>And I would apply early action somewhere rather than nowhere to get an acceptance to make myself feel better. Heading into mid-March with an acceptance from a school you despise is not pleasant.</p>
<p>I would apply to Pitzer Early Action and maybe Pomona EDII.</p>
<p>Don't apply to any schools you despise. In fact, show some restraint in applying to schools that might give you "merit" aid if you really don't want to go there, unless your parents absolutely insist, at least if you have seriously looked into it.</p>
<p>I went through a weird situation. Around application time, my parents were like, "You absolutely must get a FULL-TUITION scholarship! Otherwise, you ain't going to college!" So I only applied to the schools (MIT, Princeton) that don't offer merit money for kicks, I guess. Then after application season was over, they were like, "MIT! Princeton! You must go!" ??? I wish they had told me sooner because I have a darn good chance of getting rejected from both.</p>
<p>i would have applied EA to my first choice school. but yeah i'd rather never do this again thanks.</p>
<p>I Definitely Would Have Applied to UCLA.</p>
<p>I was Accepted to Penn State in like October and then I just sort of though HEY, that's a good school. top 50 I don't think I really need to apply to any other ones. I'm from PA, so I though In-state tuition was great,, so I didn't apply to UConn or Notre Dame, which I have no regrets about since I knew I probably wouldn't get into ND and I think PSU is better then Uconn.</p>
<p>BUT one day on Princeton Review I checked out UCLA and I see the SAT range was exactly where I was,,, I had a 1260 and bad EC's and I guess PSU was a Match and UCLA would have been a close reach.</p>
<p>I know I might not have gotten in but that application would have been fun just to fill out, and say that ""yeah I applied ((or possiably accepted)) at UCLA""" so even if I had gotten into that school I probably would have Ended up at PSU,, BUT as I said it would have been cool to try.</p>
<p>So when I went on the Website to see how to apply,, It was like 1 week after the Deadline to apply.. :(</p>
<p>if i could do it over, not apply anywhere else</p>
<p>go somewhere else that i got into.....
such as.......</p>
<p>ED to Harvard....i mean what the heck....what would i have lost</p>
<p>^ Harvard doesn't use Early Decision</p>
<p>But, considering I applied SCEA to Harvard this year (and got deferred), I'll take a shot at answering your question (yes, I know it was rhetorical). I think I lost a better chance at schools I had more of a shot at...schools that were reaches but aren't necessarily as "random" in terms of admissions. Not to mention, there are a number of schools that I like significantly better than Harvard and probably should have applied there early instead; I think I got tired of fighting my mother's obsession with name-brands so I succumbed to her insistence that I apply there early.</p>
<p>At the last minute I dropped Brown and Yale from my list and added Princeton. I don't know what I was really thinking because by mid January I realized Princeton wasn't really for me, and the other two would have been much better fit (I can't even remember why I dropped them). Oh well...</p>
<p>I wish i had found CC sooner. I've learned so much just browsing these forums, I wish I had found them when I was still choosing colleges verses now when I'm waiting for decisions. I would have looked more for merit aid, applied to harder schools, and just applied to more in general. </p>
<p>But there's something to be said for being DONE!</p>
<p>I'm very happy at Vandy. But if I were to change something I probably would have tried to apply to one school EA.</p>
<p>i wish i wouldved applied to rice and cornell</p>