<p>Here is my list of schools I applied too in the order of my likeness:</p>
<p>1) Yale
2) Brown, Penn (Accepted), Georgetown (constant internal battle between the three)
3) Johns Hopkins (Accepted)</p>
<p>I am very grateful for the opportunity. So if I don't get accepted into Georgetown, Yale or Brown...worse case scenario...I attend Penn or Hopkins :(</p>
<p>I think you should consider Hopkins more equal to Gtown and Brown and move Penn down to slot #3. Penn is just blah. lol.
Hopkins is excellent for international relations and political science, surprisingly.</p>
<p>Thomas, we have very similar tastes in universities.
I'm also from Houston, but I attend school in the DFW area, and I'll be applying to college in the fall. So far my list is as goes:</p>
<p>1) Georgetown SFS
2) Brown
3) Columbia U: Columbia College</p>
<p>Stretch School: Harvard College
Safety School: Tulane University</p>
<p>Good luck to the both of us!</p>
<p>Similar to mine, too! :)</p>
<p>-Georgetown
-Brown
-UPenn
-Dartmouth
-(the UCs, since I'm in-state)</p>
<p>"worse case scenario...I attend Penn or Hopkins :("</p>
<p>You aren't sad about possibly attending Penn, are you?</p>
<p>I would be sad about attending hopkins.... too many premed students(even though I'm one) I still think there needs to be diversity</p>
<p>Tore...No, not at all. It was a joke :)
I was just referring to the fact that I was grateful to have the opportunity to already have two great schools in my back pocket (Penn and Hopkins). I would prefer to go to Yale or Brown, but I would thoroughly be proud to attend Penn or Hopkins.( I would have to go with Penn over Hopkins).
Fordham and Tulane were my safety schools (Accepted to both).
I wouldn't attend Tulane because it's too close to my home in Houston, TX.
I want the expereince of really "getting away".
Besides, doesn't the old saying state that "all the smart people live in the Northeast"? :)
It's so funny on these message boards...Penn is the ONLY school to where there are 50% of the posts saying it's a great school, and the other 50% saying it isn't good at all...I wonder why?</p>
<p>so of all the people that got into gtown EA, who is definetly going?</p>
<p>If I get into Gtown EA this december i'm definitely going unless I miraculously get accepted to Harvard =D</p>
<p>thats exactly what georgetown doesnt want. they hate when they lose EA kids to ivys, especially harvard</p>
<p>Nothing is definite untill I see FinAid and my other acceptance letters.</p>
<p>finacial aid is a good reason</p>
<p>Yep... I gotta wait to see where else I get in, and how the different aid packages compare.</p>
<p>honestly, if I get in and my finaid is equal to all my top chioces, I will most likely (80%) attend Georgetown, although there is a chance I will end up at Columbia. If the finaid is equally horrible for all three, I'll probably end up in McGill.</p>
<p>dressage chick....i dont understand ur reasoning, 3 totally different schools even if finacial aid is the same? Georgetown is a lot different from columbia, and mcgill, so what are you true intentions</p>
<p>Well I, too, have a very diverse selection of schools that are almost all equally high on my list. I like them all for different reasons.</p>
<p>You don't always apply to a slew of the same schools; people often apply to schools that seem very different to an outsider, but the applicant has their reasons. Unless they're applying to all of the Ivies, then they're just a prestige whore. ;)</p>
<p>"Unless they're applying to all of the Ivies, then they're just a prestige whore."</p>
<p>This sentiment is getting very old around here. Like hearing "the war on terror".</p>
<p>LOL I know... I was kind of being facetious (thus the "wink").</p>
<p>But seriously, applying to all of the Ivies simply means that you don't have much of an imagination in regards to where you want to go to college, and that you don't care about much except reputation.</p>
<p>You said it yourself: "people often apply to schools that seem very different to an outsider". I wouldn't be too quick to judge.</p>
<p>Tony - "thats exactly what georgetown doesnt want. they hate when they lose EA kids to ivys, especially harvard"</p>
<p>Yeah, but... well it's just how it is... there's no way i'd turn down an acceptance to Harvard, even for Georgetown... any of the other ivies... well that's a different story.</p>