<p>First choices are probably Reed, Barnard, Swarthmore, Pomona.</p>
<p>Pops wants me to apply to 3 UCs even though I only really like 2 just so I could get into a college we could afford no matter what so I sort of have to add UCLA to that list. I don't mind SoCal but if I really had to go there I'd prefer to be in Claremont. I've visited there about half a dozen times because my sister is a senior at Scripps. </p>
<p>If I and my dad have time/money this summer we would like to fly into Portland and visit Reed and then rent a car and drive up to Seattle and see UW. We really cannot afford to go back east and check out Swarthmore, et.al., unfortunately.</p>
<p>I feel like the list is way too short. On one hand, it's good to know what one wants, but I don't, really: I just find so many reasons to dislike a school that it's hard to keep any one on the list. I want to add another safety (one that I like!), certainly, and maybe exchange Yale (because it's pointless to apply), Reed, and Macalester for others. I'm pretty set on Brown, Chicago, and CU, however.</p>
<p>It's hard to say.... I won't have a lot of time (nor money, ahem) for visiting these schools.</p>
<p>In order:
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Northwestern
Indiana University-since I live in Indiana
Ball State University-since I live in Indiana</p>
<p>I'd like to apply to Columbia just for fun but I don't really want to go there. NYU sounds okay but I heard their financial package isn't so good.</p>
<p>Top 4 (In order):
Rice
Northwestern
Washington University in St. Louis
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Other Good Matches (But not top choices):
Georgia Tech
Duke
Chapel Hill
University of Chicago</p>
<p>I'm also going to apply to University of Alabama as a safety in case all the others fall through financially. (Both parents graduated from U of A so there's some family interest in applying there too)</p>
<p>I'm looking into medical research and the small school/big city combo is what I'm leaning toward. Rice is my top choice by far, and if given the choice that's where I'll be going.</p>
<p>I am looking at the following for sports management:
University of Dayton
Xavier University (OH)
Ohio University
Indiana University - Bloomington
Bowling Green University
Syracuse University</p>
<p>and:
University of Notre Dame</p>
<p>Not sure where they all fit as far as reach/safety stuff, but those are schools that interest me now.</p>
<p>University of Washington (Seattle)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland-College Park</p>
<p>All these will be my matches and in order of preference. I will have no reaches/safeties. Are these schools quite similar? I want to major in architecture and minor in mathematics.</p>
<p>I've visited about 7-8 schools and there are only two that i like enough to consider applying
Skidmore College (a very do-able reach)
James Madison University (safety)</p>