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<p>Crap. Maybe I should tell my parents to hold that off for the trip then even though I’m kind of tempted now.</p>
<p>I just noticed that I was wearing a Fighting Irish shirt. !!!</p>
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Well, that was just me. As odd as it is, some people actually visit and don’t like it, so maybe you still should go. It’s probably the cold that does it. … It’s definitely the cold that does it.</p>
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<p>I remember writing one of my essays, including how since I supported the IRA, “The Fighting Irish” would have another meaning for me. Man, did they let a lot slide…</p>
<p>I picked Yale for three reasons:</p>
<p>1) An awesome, less cutthroat community than most other top 10 schools.
2) A pretty distinguishable pre-medical program (Major: Biology/Chemistry)
3) An AWESOME music program</p>
<p>@Dolorous: If you’d actually read my post, you’d have seen that I never said ‘expect’, I said ‘surprised [that more people didn’t include HYPSM]’. I also cleared up that it wasn’t just Harvard or Yale (one or two schools), but a generalization of the top schools in America. I don’t understand why you think it would be foolish to assume that many/more students on this website would want to go to the some of the most academically acclaimed schools in the world (versus a state school when they have the option to go anywhere). Can you tell me why this thought is illogical? Keep in mind that there is a difference between logical and correct. Sometimes, an unexpected result happens when a more logical one doesn’t.</p>
<p>USC, it’s just an all around awesome place.</p>
<p>Here are the results so far, in case anyone is curious. They are merely tallies of the number of times a school has been mentioned positively in this thread, disregarding repeats by the same user or references meant only for graduate school preferences.</p>
<p>Stanford - 13
Yale - 10
Harvard - 9
Brown - 8
Oxford - 7
Columbia - 7
Duke - 7
Cambridge - 6
Penn - 6
Princeton - 6
USC - 4
MIT - 3
Johns Hopkins - 2
Chicago - 2
Rice - 2
Michigan - 2
UCLA - 2</p>
<p>Stanford++;</p>
<p>Needs more 
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<p>POMONA plx !</p>
<p>I’d personally like to see what college everyone would like to go to, if prestige was not factored in.</p>
<p>If all of the Ivy’s, Stanford, MIT, UCLA/UCB and Oxford were regarded the same as the local state school, would you still want to go?</p>
<p>Gotta put this one on the board: Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Princeton, Princeton, Princeton, Princeton ^_^</p>
<p>Stanford, Columbia, MIT</p>
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<p>Are we assuming that these schools’ prestige would be able to dramatically decrease without a commensurate or even significant decrease in quality? Perception is not independent of reality.</p>
<p>Silverturtle, I’m not sure if you’ve responded yet, but if you could go to any college, where would you go?</p>
<p>^ For undergrad and in meaningless order, I said Stanford, Brown, and Yale as my top three. But if anticipated financial aid were taken into account, my top choices would (in descending order) probably be Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, and Columbia.</p>
<p>UChicago for me.</p>
<p>Harvard. Harvard. Harvard. Has all the classes I might want to take.</p>
<p>@silverturtle: Well then it’s fortunate that you were accepted to Brown! I hope you have a great four years there.</p>
<p>Columbia’s in a really bad area</p>