<p>OK, I'm dropping Amherst, Bates, Macalester, and Haverford.</p>
<p>However I want to do more research on Dartmouth, and maybe a couple others.</p>
<p>And Matt- thanks for elaborating, however I hate UM(both parents went to MSU, I was born to hate them), and their belief that they are Ivy caliber, when they aren't, and a few other things really bug me about them. However, I do like Ann Arbor. Also Cornell, I have visited and liked it a lot, beautiful, a mix of modern and ancient, and intellectual. Rice is frequently compared to Stanford, which blew me away, so that intrigues me.</p>
<p>I have visited Syracuse, Cornell, Pitt, PSU, Maryland, OSU, MSU, UM, Stanford, Cal, UCLA, and USC so far. And that is definitely the best system to evaluate schools, but it is expensive. Obviously you can see who I like from that list(Stanford, Cornell, MSU, UM).</p>
<p>So here is my list as of now:
Bowdoin
Brown
Claremont McKenna
Colgate
Cornell
Emory
MSU
Middlebury
Northwestern
Pomona
Rice
Stanford
UChicago
UM</p>
<p>And I am going to look at Dartmouth along with a couple others.</p>
<p>Reasoning for drops:
Amherst - if I am getting into that level, I would rather go to other schools on my list.
Bates - Didn't really seem to fit.
Haverford - Too small for me, and doesn't have something like the Claremont Consortium to make it feel bigger.
Macalester - out of place. My only reason for looking at them was their location.</p>