Should I Keep Applying?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi. Here's the deal: on Saturday, I got into MIT EA. MIT has been sort of my dream school for ages (sort of because I haven't visited). Now, I'm torn between continuing my RD apps and calling it quits, thus moving on to plan out my life in Boston for the next four years.</p>

<p>Here's the status of my apps:
Accepted 5/5 so far, full ride scholarships pending at a couple places.
3 more applications submitted.
5 more uncompleted apps:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
Cornell</p>

<p>Pros of stopping/going to MIT:
It's tops in literally every field I'm interested in.
The student body is awesome.
It's in the middle of Boston which sounds like a vibrant place.
Even if the student body is less awesome than it appears, there're tons of other schools/students/people in Boston.
Getting this process resolved now instead of April.
Not having to stress about grades/write more essays.</p>

<p>Pros of submitting more apps:
More options come April.
There will never be "What if...?"
???</p>

<p>I don't know, can you guys help me think this through? What would you do in this situation?</p>

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<p>First let me say that I’m seriously jealous of you. I wish I could stop applying now, but I was deferred from my first choice school. :(</p>

<p>It’s too bad you didn’t visit MIT before now (it’s a little late at this point, unless you feel like spending Christmas there). I think that if you have any doubts at all about MIT being your first-choice school, you should apply to other colleges. If, OTOH, you’re just second-guessing a decision you made for sound academic and personal reasons and still feel confident about, it’s probably not a good use of your time and money.</p>

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<p>If you aren’t worried about financial aid or MIT gave you plenty of money, then I would stop applying and focus on your dream school! I know it’s hard to stop applying to colleges, I’m having that problem right now. I keep wanting to add colleges to my list xD.</p>