<p>Ok @Esat936, I am not one of the posters that will try to convince you to limit your application pool. If you have the money for fees, the time for supplemental essays, and you genuinely like all of those schools, I don’t see why you wouldn’t apply.</p>
<p>What I have a problem with is students who apply to all the “top” schools, instead of top schools that are a good fit, which I think you may suffer from.</p>
<p>For example, in another comment on this thread, you indicated you liked the “open curriculum” concept, but your first choice is U Chicago, which has one of the strictest core curricula of highly selective schools. Brown is on the opposite spectrum, one of the most open. Those two schools have nothing in common but smart kids and great profs. Culturally/socially they are pretty different also.</p>
<p>Let’s assume you like the open curriculum concept and that Brown is actually your first choice. People have there reasons, but I would say that these schools don’t totally match up with Brown/open and you could reduce your workload by removing some of these:</p>
<p>-Harvard
-Princeton
-U Chicago (First choice)
-Dartmouth
-Duke
-Georgetown</p>
<p>Again, I’m not saying you are unqualified, I just think they don’t go along with the more “open” schools like Brown, Yale, UofR.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about the international finaid situation, but as an International that needs aid, UofR might be your best shot as they give out lots of merit aid to high stats students and I think that applies somewhat to internationals.</p>