<p>"List other schools you are applying to"</p>
<p>What is the purpose of this? And will it know if I only list 2-3 schools from my list? I think this question is kind of personal, and listing all the school could make me look like over-ambitious or even arrogrant.</p>
<p>Personally, I would “tone it down” and not list all your super-selective schools, if any.</p>
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<p>Disagree. Either leave the question blank or answer truthfully. Rice isn’t dumb, if you claim to be applying to Rice, Alcorn State, Mississipi State and Alabama A&M, that list doesn’t necessarily add up. If you are going to get creative with responses on this section, you may as well add a few EC’s to your list as well.</p>
<p>Many board members, including myself, put all the schools we applied to (including Ivy’s, Stanford, Hopkins, CMU, Caltech, MIT, Vandy etc.) and still got in.</p>
<p>My D listed all schools she has applied. All are very selective. Ivys, stanford, Duke, WashU etc. She started last week as freshman at Rice. In my option this gave an idea to Rice who they are competing against.</p>
<p>Colleges are also known to exchange applicant lists (especially to ensure that someone didn’t apply ED to multiple places etc.). Im sure they allow for some variance, but if you apply to all US News top 20 but list a bunch of safety schools, they may take notice.</p>
<p>Again, pure speculation.</p>
<p>Listed all my colleges, including two ivies and Stanford, and got very nice merit money (no idea if that had anything to do with it though).</p>
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<p>Most likely, this question is a non-factor.</p>
<p>I would bet that this is data that admissions uses after the decisions and enrollments have been completed for their own marketing purposes. It probably has very little to do with your application. Of course, I don’t know any more than any one else outside of the admissions office.</p>
<p>put down hogwarts 
but seriously, i think they use it to satisfy their curiosity more than to judge you.</p>
<p>I put every school I applied to. Rice knows that people apply to more than one selective college. I personally had 3 other schools with a comparable level of difficulty. Don’t worry about it, and just be honest.</p>
<p>I applied to several Ivies as well as many of Rice’s peer schools such as Vandy and Emory, and I listed them all. I’m a freshman at Rice right now.</p>