There are also schools just 2 are applying to. Like me and another are applying to JHU. Me and another are also applying to UPenn (I want the huntsman program there, the other the AI program). Me and another are also applying to Brown. We certainly haven’t put all our eggs in one, or even four, baskets lol.
My D is a URM junior at Penn, and there are URM triplets in her class!
But like I said, my personal dream schools are: Princeton (Woodrow Wilson), U Chicago, and Georgetown SFS. I’m applying to these schools independent of my siblings, because they don’t aling with their interests.
I would consider UPenn’s Huntsman program among my tops, becuase it combines intense language, cultural, and poltical study with business studies and math… and my Arabic background would be great for it, but the acceptance is so low and average test scores so high I’m only applying just to see what happens. Plus getting rejected from that program doesn’t mean you’re rejected from penn.
OP, please say you have match and safety schools?
Of course. Match: OSU, U Mich (more of a low reach), Boston University, Miami University of Ohio
Safety: Jackson State (an HBCU my parents went to… with my stats id get a full ride), University of Cincinnati
If I don’t get into any of my dream schools/ don’t get enough money, I’ll probably go to OSU.
Will they actually pay that much?
I don’t have unrealstically high hopes for actually being able to attend these schools… although I would absolutely love to, it just isn’t super realistic. I have financial safeties and targets I’d be more than happy to attend if these schools end up being too expensive. My family and I are not delusional… it will likely end up being too expensive. That’s okay. It was worth a shot. I’d still like see the outcome.
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Thanks @skieurope. I just wanted to know how to send in tax returns without killing all the trees. I’ve already got the DL on the money situation
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I just wanted to wish the best of luck to you and your brothers. Nice to see you (and hopefully your brothers) have such nice balanced lists with safeties, matches and reaches. I do agree with the other and think you and your brothers will get admitted to some of the reaches. Please keep us update on the results, very interested as a Mom of 4 boys, but only one set of twins.
OP Here!
Thanks for the feedback ya’ll have given. I’ll let ya’ll know this: One of my bros got an ROTC scholarship to Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Cal Berkeley this round (now he just has to get into the schools, but I’m fairly certain he can… he got a call fro Stanford admissions!) I didn’t get one at any of my top 4 (GU, Chicago, Princeton, and Harvard) this round, but the recruiting officer at Harvard called me on the phone and told me not to worry, and that he has attached a very recommendation letter to my Harvard application (we have been in touch extensively, for 6+ months). He is sure I’ll get a scholarship the second round, since only 250 were given the first round total for all schools in the U.S., and Harvard had no scholarship recipients. (Second board scholarships will be announced in January). I will keep ya’ll updated as to what happens with our acceptances and such.
Great news! Congrats!!!
They should apply to the school that gives them the most money and they like the most … regardless how prestigious it is. I tell people all them most of the brightest and most fascinating people I know DID NOT attend an Ivy League or Top 20 school. Academic elitism is just that academic elitism … it doesn’t promise opportunity (I know under and unemployed elite college grads), career-fulfillment, self-fulfillment, great college experience, great salary, etc
I hear you @NuScholar, these are some of the best schools for what I want to study. I’d be lying if I said prestige didn’t matter, but it really is only a small consideration.
Also, just found out today I got a full ROTC scholarship at Georgetown, Princeton, and Uchicgo. (They said the game made a mistake of something not giving it to me originally).
Congrats! I think you will get into at least 1 of those schools.
If you get a decent (but no full tuition) financial aid package from Georgetown (non-ROTC), would you still want to do the full ROTC scholarship? Do you want to go into the military?
OMG that’s awesome. I’m sure your proficiency in Arabic and DoS experience would be highly valued.
Fingers crossed for Georgetown or Princeton Woodrow Wilson. 
@suzyQ7 Yes! Money obviously is a huge factor for the rotc scholarship, but my end goal is diplomacy or intelligence work, and the army is a great route for both of these things. We crunched the numbers, and though the calculator said I’d receive a VERY generous amount of aid from GU, it wouldn’t be as much as ROTC.
@MYOS1634 Thanks! At Princeton, ROTC is tied to admissions, and the officer told me that it is very similar to recruiting athletes, and those who get the scholarship typically are admitted, or at the very least get a huge boost in admissions!