<p>I finished a couple days ago, but here goes nothing!</p>
<p>These are in order of preference (or rather…the ones I would choose if I were to get accepted to all)
<p>My relatively short list:</p>
<p>Stanford (Accepted REA)
UT Austin (Accepted)
MIT
Harvard
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell</p>
<p>I’m pretty set on Stanford though.</p>
<p>Dang, and I thought my list was long. Most folks at my school are applying to 5-6.</p>
<p>Stanford
MIT
Duke
Chicago
Cornell
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Harvard
McGill
UNC
NC State</p>
<p>Some people have listed only reach schools. Does that mean you’re holding an EA admit or did you not bother to list your safeties?</p>
<p>If you have no acceptances, and have applied only to reaches, no matter how wonderful your stats are, read this thread and heed the lessons from the experience of Andison, who was an outstanding student who applied only to reaches and received only rejections:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/47867-were-picking-up-pieces-but-what-went-wrong.html?highlight=picking+up+the+pieces[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/47867-were-picking-up-pieces-but-what-went-wrong.html?highlight=picking+up+the+pieces</a></p>
<p>Thankfully, for California students, we have the Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) which guarantees admission into at least one UC if you place in the top 4% of your graduating class. So the UCs turned into safeties for me.</p>
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<p>Be sure to consider financial safeties as well.</p>
<p>Financial safeties, for those who don’t know, are schools you know you’ll be accepted to and can afford. Make sure you are rock bottom sure that your parents can afford those schools. Many students have been disappointed after parents told them not to worry about college costs and then – after acceptances, the parents realized that colleges cost far more than they ever had imagined. Costs have gone up a great deal since your parents went to college.</p>
<p>Example of a list with no safeties unless the student got an EA admit already:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Dartmouth
Vanderbilt
WashU
Tufts
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Amherst
Williams
Wesleyan</p>
<p>In comparison to you guys, my list sounds rather short. I applied to all “match” schools.</p>
<p>Clarkson University
Lafayette College
Northeastern University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
SUNY Binghamton
Union College
Villanova University</p>
<p>I’ll partake
Tulane(deferred EA)
Florida State university
University of South Florida
Georgia State University
University of Georgia
Mercer University
Rhodes College</p>
<p>Stanford (accepted)
Harvard
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC San Diego
UC Davis (accepted)</p>
<p>Columbia SEAS
Carnegie Mellon
NYU Stern
UOP
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD</p>
<p>Wish I had applied to Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, Stanford</p>
<p>Yale - deferred
Pitt - accepted, safety
Vassar
NYU
CMU
Brandeis
BC
Wesleyan
Williams
Barnard
Brown</p>
<p>Temple U
Boston U
Rutgers –> accepted
Loyola Maryland
Northeastern
University of Maryland –> #1 choice
Howard U</p>
<p>Notre Dame
University of Florida
Miami University - Oxford
Florida State - Accepted Honors
University of South Florida - accepted honors
Central Florida - accepted honors
St Mary’s College - Notre Dame - accepted.</p>
<p>Applied to Florida schools due to$$$$ reasons. Have not yet heard about reach schools.</p>
<p>Accepted Honors to all safety schools. Waiting on the reaches</p>
<p>Finished all my apps around Dec 1~</p>
<p>NJIT
USC
WPI - in with money (:
Rutgers - in
U of Chicago
Harvey Mudd
Swarthmore
Rice</p>
<p>Northstarmom:</p>
<p>Thanks for pointing out that very interesting thread on “no safeties”. It was fascinating and I agree that it is a must read for every applicant.</p>
<p>CUNY Queens
SUNY Stony Brook
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY New Paltz
Amherst (TOP CHOICE)
CMU (second top choice)
Cornell
Columbia
NYU
Union College</p>
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<p>And it does make that list that Northstarmom posted a little worrying. A quick glance through post history suggests it doesn’t include any EA acceptances…</p>
<p>UPenn (top choice)
Grinnell College
UMichigan
Bucknell (accepted)
URichmond
Tulane
Case Western
UMaryland College Park
Washington & Jefferson (safe, accepted) </p>
<p>Really like Bucknell, but im kinda worried about fin aid. I probably go there if Penn rejected me and/or the school offers me good aid.</p>