<p>My list is:</p>
<p>Columbia ED
Penn-Wharton
Cornell
NYU-Stern
UVA
Northwestern
USC or Stanford (one west coast…)</p>
<p>Backups: UIUC Business, looking for one more</p>
<p>I hate all of you that started essays already. =</p>
<p>Ugh Common App out in a few hours. (Not that many of my schools use it :rolleyes:) I’m so nervous.</p>
<p>Bradley University
Catholic University of America
Clarkson University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Fairfield University
Florida Institute of Technology
Hofstra University
Manhattan College
Marquette University
Ohio Northern University
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Rochester Institute Tech
SUNY Buffalo
Suffolk University
Temple University
University of Alabama
University of Dayton
University of Evansville
University of Hartford
Valparaiso University
Western New England College
York College of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>I need to take a few schools off. My GPA is a 2.89 so RIT, SUNY Buffalo, Fairfield, NYU Poly, and Clarkson are probably coming off. Unless I wait until after the first semester of senior year to see how I do. As for the rest I’ll apply to as many as possible in August/September.
And then my safeties will be community college and some Penn State satellite campuses.
Does anyone see any other schools that immediately stick out as reaches?</p>
<p>@Sophistry</p>
<p>what’s your ACT/SAT? If they’re low, Marquette is a bit of a reach. I don’t know much about most of the other schools though.</p>
<p>1790, which seems to be right in their middle 50%. Yeah, Marquette doesn’t seem too safe to me either. I’ll think about it. I’m not sure on anything atm. But it’s still early.</p>
<p>I hope my math score goes up when I retake it in October, because when I took it in the spring I was only in Algebra 1. I’m taking Algebra 2 this summer and I’m learning about some topics that I recall I didn’t know too much about in the spring.</p>
<p>@sophistry, still apply to Marquette. A friend of mine got an 18 on her ACT but had an okay GPA (3.0ish?) with very few honors/AP, and got in with some merit aid.</p>
<p>My tentative list is ever-changing, but for now, here are the preliminary choices, likely to be cut down to around a dozen:</p>
<p>Amherst
Bowdoin
Brown
Carleton
Dartmouth
Hamilton
Harvard
Kenyon
Macalester
Northwestern
Pittsburgh
Pomona
Rice
Stanford
SUNY Geneseo
Swarthmore
Yale
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan</p>
<p>A lot depends on how much work I feel like doing, if I get in somewhere early, and Questbridge. 
$$$ is an issue. I’d like some good film departments too (hence Wesleyan, Northwestern, etc.). Food’s also a factor, LOL! Size of the school actually doesn’t matter to me, but I seem to be drawn to the LACs. :D</p>
<p>Of the schools I’ve visited, I liked Yale, Swarthmore, and Wesleyan the most.</p>
<p>@Chicago701 Oh, really? That doesn’t sound too bad. But obviously I don’t know the full story.
Although now that I think about it I guess I can just apply to wherever I feel like since community college is my backup. Which includes RIT, one of my favorites atm. Maybe I’ll put RIT back on.</p>
<p>I actually have the Common app for 2011 because Harvard sent me their application early haha. so no anticipation for me 
I’ve tried starting my essays, but I get so bored of it that I stop after like five words LOL</p>
<p>My list are all pharmacy schools:
UC: Berkeley, Irvine, SD
University of Pacific
Rutgers
Pittsburgh
URI
Northeastern
MCPHS
USP
ONU</p>
<p>Since most of the colleges I listed require teacher recs, should I have asked them for it before summer started? or will they be ok with me asking them to write 6 or 7 letters for me in the fall, in time for the early action deadline (around November)?</p>
<p>^I’m in the same situation as you concerning the teacher recs…</p>
<p>Right now my list is still hovering around 20. There is no way I’m applying to more than 13: 12 + the state flagship. I really want to just apply ED to my top choice & hopefully be done with it, but I’m concerned about the financial aspect. I don’t think I’ll be getting tons of aid from anywhere, so it would be nice to have the option of comparing costs from wherever I get in.</p>
<p>I just found out my state safety/flagship ditched rolling admissions in favor of pooling applicants. so much for applying early there</p>