<p>I'd dump Penn, Brown, Hamilton, Trinity, Dickinson, and Loyala (MD).</p>
<p>Keep in mind that there's cold and there's COLD...though if a campus is small and/or compact, the COLD can be less of a negative factor.</p>
<p>if you can, maybe sometime between now and senior year... have an IDEA of what you want to major in? it's okay if you don't, but it saves you a lot of frustration in college. plus, if you know what you want to do, you can apply for guaranteed grad programs and stuff. i feel like if you have an idea on what you want to do, you are more confident and know what to do when the time comes. just a thought :) also, i don't know a whole lot about most of the schools on your list, but from what i DO know, here are my suggestions:</p>
<p>[Reach: Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Penn, Amherst, Williams]
choose 2 colleges from this list, MAYBE 3. i'd say choose between Yale & Princeton. i'd probably keep Penn... and i have no idea about amherst or williams.</p>
<p>[Target: Georgetown, BC, Hamilton, Bucknell, Lehigh, Holy Cross, Trinity]
you have a good list going of targets, which is excellent! choose 3-4 colleges from this list. i would probably keep georgetown and eliminate holy cross & trinity.</p>
<p>[Safety: Lafayette, Gettysburg, Franklin & Marshall, Villanova, Dickinson, Loyola Maryland]
way too many safeties. you only need 1-2 safeties MAXIMUM. remember, these are your safeties, which means you well exceed the minimum requirements. so chances are, you WILL get accepted. save yourself from a buttload of application fees since most people don't want to go to their safety schools anyways.</p>
<p>Disagree with dumping reaches (applying to a ton of reaches is hedging your bet), but I've never heard of anyone with this many safeties.</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>anyone else have a suggestion?</p>