Share Your Dream-School Preference Ranking

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<p>Junior from the southeast</p>

<ol>
<li>DUKE</li>
<li>DUKE</li>
<li>DUKE</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>UF</li>
<li>UMiami</li>
</ol>

<p>Ironically, I plan to apply to ALL of these. Although I’ll probably throw some other fillers in to distance myself from the Florida schools.</p>

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<p>Rising senior from the Northeast</p>

<p>My dream school is Yale (I plan to apply SCEA next year)
2. Princeton
3. Duke
4. Vanderbilt</p>

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<p>Junior from northeastern Ohio</p>

<p>If I had any chance at Ivies or similarly prestigious schools, that’s where I’d go, because I’m shallow. But I’m not applying.
In real life, I want to go to Reed because I like the idea of a small intellectual college and (for better or worse) I have some hipster inclinations that run contrary to my secret desire to brag about having gone to Harvard. Also, I love rain and want to be a Ph.D someday.
Other than that, I don’t know. I’ll definitely be applying to Ohio State but I don’t know what else. I can’t visit schools, so they all seem the same to me.</p>

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<p>Wow, I guess I’m the first northwestern besides OP…</p>

<p>I already eliminated a lot of schools I used to want to go to, since my grades are less than stellar. </p>

<p>But here goes, anyways:

  1. Brown
  2. MIT and Caltech
  3. University of Rochester
  4. Smith College
  5. Johns Hopkins (mostly because school spirit is not focused on football but lacrosse)
  6. UCSD
  7. UCSC
  8. UC Berkeley
  9. CMU
  10. SUNY Stony Brook
  11. Oberlin </p>

<p>Well, those are my top schools that I’m thinking of. Probably will add UPitt and UAB as safeties. </p>

<p>I can’t decide if Brown-like schools or if MIT/Caltech like schools are for me. I’m leaning towards the Brown-like schools because I want to do science research yet still be able to pursue my artisitic activities.</p>

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<p>Colby, Bates, Lewis & Clark, and Willamette might help. </p>

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<p>So, may I ask, why Smith but not the others?</p>

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<p>I’m only a sophomore, so this probably won’t be this way for long. I’m from the Midwest.</p>

<ol>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Case Western</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
</ol>

<p>I don’t really know. Maybe all of these schools are completely different and I dunno what I’m talking about. :b</p>

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<p>Sophomore from the west coast</p>

<p>With the exception of the first three, a rough ranking:</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>JHU</li>
<li>U Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UCSD (for bio)</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>UNC Chapel Hill</li>
</ol>

28

<p>Sophomore, East Coast. Rough ranking at this point:</p>

<ol>
<li>UVa</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>University of Alabama</li>
<li>Ohio University</li>
</ol>

29

<p>From the Midwest. Illinois to be specific. </p>

<ol>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>New York University</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>University of Southern California</li>
<li>Wesleyan University</li>
<li>Ohio State University</li>
</ol>

30

<p>1)Princeton
2)Dartmouth
3)Ball so hard university</p>

31

<p>LOL on Reed comeback (I’m from Portland)</p>

32

<p>@JuniorMint, nah, I’d probably hate Brown. Too hippy and liberal.</p>

33

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Awesome! I especially like how the Webb Institute has such a specific focus.</p>

<p>Now I’m reminded of Deep Springs college, probably the most interesting school in the world. And I mean that in the sincerest way possible. I want to go there just to see what it’s like.</p>

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<p>Midwest FRESHMAN!
Omg I said sophomore earlier. I’m such an idiot.</p>

<p>YY’s T10 Dream Schools:</p>

<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>CalTech</li>
<li>Hah-Vahd</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>UW-Madison (I used to live in Madison a couple years back, so heh xD)</li>
</ol>

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<p>Haha! Did you join to tell me that?! :)</p>

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<p>Northeast (NY) Junior </p>

<ol>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins </li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna</li>
<li>Stanford </li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Harvard </li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
</ol>

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<p>Southern California Freshman</p>

<ol>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
</ol>

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<p>Well, it’s not in the “high reach” category yet it still has a pretty good science focus. Bryn Mawr and Wellesley could be good fits to me but I’d rather not have a reach heavy college list. I don’t really like Mount Holyoke because it seems too motherly (yes, weird word to describe). I may apply to Scripps, but I need to visit it to be sure. Apart from the schools I mentioned, I don’t think my parents will let me apply there.</p>

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<p>Junior from Texas</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>University of Texas</li>
</ol>

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<p>International Freshman</p>

<ol>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>New York University</li>
<li>Stetson University</li>
<li>Florida Southern College</li>
<li>Butler University</li>
</ol>