<p>I hit my first choice, Dartmouth. But it would be interesting to know everyones 2nd, 3rd, etc choices.
Not only for those already in, but those who are still searching, wondering, worrying. </p>
<p>If you like Dartmouth, what else do you/did you like.</p>
<p>For me, </p>
<li>Dartmouth (Awsome, everything I wanted–lucky girl! no more apps.)</li>
<li>Swarthmore (intimate, friendly, loved Dean of Adm.)</li>
<li>Princeton (great school, too close to home, intense)</li>
<li>Brown (beautiful camus, liberal, too liberal?) </li>
<li>Williams (nice size, more sports than I wanted, but beautiful Mount.)</li>
</ol>
<p>Safties:</p>
<li>Wellesley (all girls, good-bad)</li>
<li>Penn (my school puts alot in Penn, I was #1 in my class so,)</li>
<li>Boston College (love Philosophy Dept.)</li>
<li>UMich (did an internship 2 years, love Ann Arbor)</li>
</ol>
<p>I don't think that anyone can really put Penn as a safety, but whatever. Same actually goes for Wellesley, IMO.</p>
<p>But here's me:</p>
<p>1) Brown, Dartmouth, and Georgetown are all now tied.
2) UPenn</p>
<p>I like Brown because of the campus, the mentality (liberal), the lack of requirements, and the area (I like Providence, and it's close to Boston and NYC).</p>
<p>I like Dartmouth because of the "community" feel, the gorgeous campus, and the undergraduate focus.</p>
<p>I like Georgetown because of its awesome location (IMO, best of all 3), its great connections/opportunites in relation to politics, the campus, and the feeling that I got from the students.</p>
<p>I don't really like Penn as much as the others. It's got a nice campus, but I didn't think it was spectacular. It's also too pre-professional and competitive for me.</p>
<p>I don't mean to say Penn is'nt great, it is. It's just that guidance told me that Penn was a sure thing for me, I believed them, so in my decision making, Penn was a saftey.</p>
<p>You're probably right about Wellseley though. I just liked it and it wasn't in my top 5 so it was bumped to the second category.</p>
<p>Okay, I understand. I just think that it is not possible to call Penn a safety (for really anyone), no matter what your GC says. This is just my opinion, though. Good luck! (We'll all need it!)</p>
<p>I agree, I shouldn't call Penn a safety, it was just lower on my list. Really the same is true of the whole list because they are all great schools.</p>
<p>Let's see, my list would look something like this:</p>
<ol>
<li> Yale. Yes, I'm a bad, bad person for not having Dartmouth here. But I love Yale's Residential College system, and the Directed Studies Program is ideal.</li>
<li> Dartmouth. (The D-Plan, Good size, Nice and wintery.)</li>
<li> Amherst. (Great English department, the consortium will ensure that I don't ever feel stifled.)</li>
<li> Wesleyan. (The students.)</li>
<li> Vassar. (Ditto Wesleyan.)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Dartmouth (perfect size, beautiful campus, visited and really liked the people, great foreign languages, freedom with designing majors, great social life, rush not till soph year...okay I could go on, but I'll stop)</li>
<li>Amherst (small classes, really liked the campus, liked the people, good japanese department, loved the town, but a little afraid of the smallness even with the consortium)</li>
<li>Duke (known for both social life and academics, tons of resources, amazing campus, school spirit, warmer than other places, but maybe a little too big-- plus apparently the social life is about to suck thanks to the administration's insane cracking-down)</li>
<li>Pomona (nice weather although after visiting this became a con--I wouldn't know how to study in it, five-school consortium to make it feel bigger, beautiful campus, everyone there or who's ever gone there apparently loves it, very lax administration)</li>
</ol>
<p>Brown was somewhere on that list, but I wasn't sure since I hadn't visited. Same with Middlebury. Middlebury might have been right before Pomona. The other schools I was planning on applying to were Vanderbilt and Kenyon (safeties). Schools I was planning on applying to but then dismissed were Penn, Princeton, and Williams.</p>
<p>I guess it's not too suprising that most people who are applying/were accepted to Dartmouth all had similar schools in mind. My list went (I got in!) as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>U of Washington (yay safety.)</li>
</ol>
<p>I think everybody already mentioned why they also loved the other schools that I was about to apply to. Up until visiting Dartmouth I was convinced that Harvard was the school for me. I had visited it and loved it, my mom wen there (for grad) and loved it, and with that legacy I felt like I had an ok chance. But Dartmouth was on a completely different level from anyone else as far as how completely "me" it felt. It was perfect. Cheers.</p>
<ol>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>(not a typo) Washington & Lee University</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Univ. of MD</li>
<li>St. Mary's College of MD (public liberal arts school, pretty cool)</li>
</ol>
<p>I didn't apply to any school that I would not be happy attending, so I'm not going to analyze it as reach and safety, etc. I'm sure the group will thin itself out in April with a few disappointing letters, so I'm not even going to analyze that either.</p>
<p>From Maryland? Where? I used to live in Severna Park and I miss it.
Sometimes, when I'm reminded, I wish I could go back there. The first college I ever thought about was Washington & Lee.
I sent them a letter in 9th grade and they sent me back a very nice letter saying they would wait to hear from me in my junior year. I was flattered and star struck by it. I've had a soft spot for W&L ever since.</p>
<p>Thanks, FountainSiren. Well, I'm from that strange little part of Maryland that no one seems to know about (but I guess that could be anything besides Montgomery County, Baltimore city and the outlying suburbs of it), the eastern peninsula. Most people would be surprised that it's such a world apart from the other areas of the state, but it's not so bad.</p>
<p>W&L and Dartmouth are similar in many ways, so it should really be no coincidence that they're both "it" for me, but I want to keep my options open.</p>
<p>Not really. It's about 150 miles away by car (according to Mapquest) but that's only because of the shape of Maryland. It's probably around 100 miles away. If there's only one Port Tobacco, then it's in Southern Maryland, still on the main shore.</p>
<p>Hi all,
I just learned about this forum last week through my GC.
I was already accepted ea to yale, but Dartmouth is where my heart is and I'll go if I'm accepted and can afford it (financial concerns kept me away from ED at Dartmouth--Yale was non-binding--but I've heard that financial packages are pretty similar)</p>
<ol>
<li>Dartmouth (need I say anything?)</li>
<li>Yale (there's something about Yale...)</li>
<li>Cornell (sooo pretty)</li>
<li>Columbia (shrug)</li>
<li>UF(free!)</li>
<li>Emory (they had a scholars program that would have paid all 4 yrs tuition)</li>
</ol>
<p>Kalid. I almost did what you did. Congrats on Yale.</p>