<p>@ivygolfer: Omg, I thought I was the only weirdo who loved their traditions… 
They seriously do have the best traditions… Dartmouth’s traditions are pretty cool too. :P</p>
<p>Brown, Georgetown, or Carnegie Mellon :D</p>
<p>UC Berkeley but I’m OOS so even if I was excepted I wouldn’t be able to afford it.</p>
<p>Whatever makes me GM of the Boston Motherf****** Red Sox.</p>
<p>Duke, Notre Dame, Brown, Northwestern, Williams…of course, these are all reaches for me. But that’s why they’re called “dream” schools.</p>
<p>Harvard 
Life sucks.</p>
<p>I know. ):^^^</p>
<p>UVa and College of William & Mary. :)</p>
<p>^^^im just curious. Why is Harvard everyone’s dream school?</p>
<p>Cause it’s #1</p>
<p>(like Smitty Werben Jager Man Jensen)</p>
<p>^To keep myself from writing an essay, I’ll limit myself to a small five-point list:</p>
<ol>
<li>I love the ambition that seems to drive all of the students there.</li>
<li>It’s the center of everything academic. There are constant research opportunities and forums being held throughout the year.</li>
<li>It’s very progressive as far as financial aid.</li>
<li>The campus is so beautiful. I know some may not think so, but of all the colleges I visited, I felt the best at Harvard. It’s historic, quaint, and accessible.</li>
<li>Boston is a fine city. It’s not too overwhelming, such as New York City, but it is still large enough that I feel like I would never get bored.</li>
</ol>
<p>Again, this list is very ambiguous and is no way a representation of all that I see in Harvard. I just love the place. I could go on for hours about it.</p>
<p>Well said… ^</p>
<p>Duke University for sure. I got deferred from there unfortunately.</p>
<p>Everything happens for a reason don’t worry. 
^</p>
<p>^i hear that. And you’re right. Boston is awesome. BC is my number one for sure. And financial aid is always important so you’ve got a point there too. I just know a lot of people at my school that want to go to or go to Harvard for all the wrong reasons.</p>
<p>I want to go to a college in Boston definitely, I’m just not sure which one! Any tips? I plan on majoring in biochemistry.</p>
<p>Right now, I’m thinking MIT or U of Chicago but my parents are from Hyde Park, Chicago, so they don’t want me going to U of C because they know how boring it is social life-wise.</p>
<p>I doubt I’m getting in to either though…</p>
<p>Chicago is boring for social life? O.o I thought it’d be the opposite…</p>
<p>UChicago is great too… But I swear, they keep teasing me with the constant mail they send me… </p>
<p>They probably don’t realize I don’t stand a chance ^.^ Or they want me to apply so their acceptance rate lowers. XD</p>
<p>My dream school doesn’t exist. It would have the location of NYU with the academic structure and culture of Bard. And it wouldn’t be called Sarah Lawrence.</p>
<p>Well to be specific, I love Yale’s campus because of it’s mixture in architectural styles, its design (the layout of the academic and housing buildings and graduate schools), the energy and excitement I felt while on campus because of the types of people I saw and the more urban feel. I love Yale’s housing system because I really wanted a small community feel and the house systems seems perfect for that. I like how the houses have unique “personalities” and perks that come along with each one (practice rooms, theatres, and other things underground). I was astounded by the few students from Yale I was able to talk to! They all did incredible things, participated in many diverse groups and organizations, were incredibly friendly, seemed opposed to the Ivy pretentiousness (is that spelled correctly?) and wanted everyone to like Yale not for its name but for what it actually was, an incredible school! Also, Yale has great FA, so that was a big factor for my rapturous relationship with Yale.</p>