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<p>Tulane is niiiiice.</p>

62

<p>That’s what I’ve heard. I have family that used to live in New Orleans as well, and they like the city. The only difficult thing for me to wrap my head around would be the lack of professional hockey in the area. I know it sounds stupid, but I’m a huge hockey fan, and I’m going to need some hockey in the area if I want to survive.</p>

63

<p>Ugh, too humid in LA.</p>

64

<p>I’m a prefrosh from somewhere.</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard and Cornell</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Uni of Chi</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
</ol>

65

<p>D senior from Mid-Atlantic.</p>

<ol>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Haverford</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>TCNJ</li>
</ol>

66

<ol>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon </li>
<li>Texas AM</li>
<li>Baylor</li>
<li>Mizzou</li>
</ol>

<p>3&4 are dreams because they are 10+ hours away and my mom would never let me be that far.</p>

67

<p>Baylor has hot Christian Girls</p>

68

<p>only the schools I think I can get into, otherwise it would by hyp, etc</p>

<p>UPenn, UChicago, JHU, Duke, UVA, Georgetown, W&M, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Emory, Rice, Northwestern, WUSTL, and then Temple and Syracuse.</p>

69

<p>[indent][indent]So I guess you voted…[/indent][/indent]</p>

<p>Top 25</p>

<ol>
<li>Stanford (19)</li>
<li>Princeton (19)</li>
<li> Harvard (16)</li>
<li>Yale (15)</li>
<li>Columbia (15)</li>
<li>Duke (14)</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins (13)</li>
<li>MIT (13)</li>
<li>Penn (13)</li>
<li>Northwestern (12)</li>
<li>Dartmouth (11)</li>
<li>Berkeley (10)</li>
<li>Brown (10)</li>
<li>UChicago (10)</li>
<li>Georgetown (10)</li>
<li>Caltech (9)</li>
<li>Cornell (8)</li>
<li>Vanderbilt (8)</li>
<li>USC (7)</li>
<li>UVa (7)</li>
<li>WUSTL (6)</li>
<li>Rice (6)</li>
<li>Emory (6)</li>
<li>UCLA (6)</li>
<li>Carnegie Melon (6)</li>
</ol>

<p>26-50. </p>

<p>Wellesley (5)
NYU (5)
Swarthmore (5)
Claremont McKenna (4)
Ohio State (4)
Amherst (4)
Williams (3)
Tulane (3)
Case Western (3)
Tufts (3)
UNC-CH (3)
W&M (3)
BU (2)
UM-TC (2)
Barnard (2)
Smith (2)
Bryn Mawr (2)
Brandeis (2)
Lehigh (2)
UCSD (2)
Reed (2)
Deep Springs (2)
UT (2)
Notre Dame (2)
Harvey Mudd (2)</p>

70

<p>Junior from Southern California.</p>

<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford </li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Northwestern
–drop-- </li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>CMU
–drop–</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>Northeastern</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>Cal Poly SLO</li>
<li>UC Davis</li>
</ol>

71

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<p>I personally know of one data point that corroborates but I’m going to need some evidence mister.</p>

72

<p>Pacific Northwest here,</p>

<ol>
<li>JHU</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>UTexas</li>
<li>UWashington Seattle</li>
</ol>

73

<p>

WOAH.</li>
</ol>

<p>Anyone remember MIThopeful16??? (turns out he’s at CMU now)</p>

74

<p>Junior from northeast

  1. MIT
  2. u Chicago
  3. jhu
  4. emory
  5. columbia
  6. brown
  7. Vanderbilt
  8. uw Madison
  9. Pomona
  10. Carleton
  11. middlebury
  12. umiami
  13. Hamilton</p>
75

<p>Junior from Illinois. If all costs were equal, and I could get into any school academically:</p>

<p>1) UW Madison
2) Stanford
3) Cal-Berkeley
4) UT-Austin
5) Minnesota-TC</p>

76

<p>Senior from California

  1. UCLA
  2. Harvard
  3. Pomona
  4. Williams
  5. Duke
  6. Columbia
  7. Claremont McKenna
  8. Bowdoin
  9. Yale
  10. Swarthmore
  11. Amherst
  12. Penn
  13. Stanford
  14. Brown
  15. UChicago</p>

<p>Don’t underestimate the undergraduate value of the liberal arts colleges! :smiley: (Something I wish I knew when I was applying. Thought liberal arts meant artsy-type schools and didn’t find out what it really meant until after college app season was over.)</p>

<p>And 2 more outside of the US just for fun :slight_smile:
-University of Toronto, Canada
-University of Oxford, UK</p>

77

<ol>
<li>STANFORD!!!</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>UW Seattle</li>
</ol>

<p>My list is weird…but I’d prefer to stay on the west coast.</p>

78

<p>1: MIT
2: Caltech
3: UChicago
4: Harvard
5: Princeton
6: Yale
7: UWashington</p>

<p>In all honesty, UWashington could be higher, but I’m playing it safe…</p>

79

<p>Reach

  1. Stanford
  2. Johns Hopkins
  3. UC Berkeley
    Midrange
  4. UW Madison
  5. Marquette
    Safety
  6. UW Eau Clarie</p>
80

<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UCD</li>
<li>UCI</li>
</ol>