What are your top ten universities?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
101

<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Reed</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>John Hopkins</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>University of Washington</li>
</ol>

102

<p>Upenn
Cornell University
Johns Hopkins
Franklin and Marshall
Macalester College
Emory
Boston University
Rice University
Colgate University
Trinity</p>

<p>These are my dream schools</p>

103

<p>Well I’m a senior and I know where I’m going (unfortunately not one of the schools on the list), but these were, are, and always will be my dream schools:</p>

<ol>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>UNC Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>BC</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>Villanova</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
</ol>

104

<p>RPI
Cooper Union
Cornell
UMBC
RIT</p>

105

<p>1.) Vassar
2.) Carleton
3.) Haverford
4.) Oberlin
5.) Brown</p>

106

<ol>
<li><p>New Mexico Tech/Colorado School of Mines ( low tuition, pretty good salary after graduation )</p></li>
<li><p>NYU POLY ( Very expensive, yet close and located in NY with big possibilities )</p></li>
<li><p>Stevens Tech ( same as nyu poly )</p></li>
<li><p>Virginia Tech, illinois Tech, Missouri Tech, NJIT ( Pretty good school with average Wtuition/salary uppn graduation )</p></li>
<li><p>Manhattan College</p></li>
</ol>

107

<p>Already in college, but if I were to go back again and had better stats (I was a fairly average student) the list would look something like…</p>

<p>1.) St. John’s College (Annapolis)
1.) St. John’s College (Santa Fe)
3.) University of Chicago
4.) Temple University
5.) Boston University
6.) New York University
7.) Columbia University
8.) University of Rochester
9.) University of Washington
10.) Northeastern University</p>

<p>No particular ranking after the tie for 1st (I just can’t pick between the two locations!) I really did a cruddy job with my college search when I was in high school and ended up stuck somewhere which (had a made a list like this back in high school) would have been somewhere between number 15 and 20. Looking at this list and thinking back I think I could have been accepted to St. John’s, Temple, and maybe Boston, U of R. Others would have been varying degrees of reaching.</p>

108

<p>Mine are:

  1. Amherst
  2. Stanford
  3. Dartmouth
  4. Middlebury
  5. Vassar
  6. UC Berkeley
  7. UCLA
  8. NYU
  9. Swarthmore
  10. Trinity College
    Yeah my choices and the order are quite weird…</p>
109

<p>My top schools were:

  1. USC (rejected :frowning: )
  2. UCLA (which where I’ll be attending this fall :smiley: )
  3. UC Berkeley (rejected :frowning: )
  4. UOP [University of the Pacific]
  5. UC Irvine</p>

<p>If I had better stats and EC’s I would have applied to:
6) Stanford
7) Swarthmore
8) Cornell
9) University of Chicago
10) Brown</p>

110

<p>In no particular order:</p>

<p>-Wash U
-Northwestern
-Carnegie Mellon
-Johns Hopkins
-University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
-Tufts
-University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
-Yale
-University of Chicago
-University of Texas – Austin</p>

<p>I have some narrowing down to do.</p>

111

<ol>
<li>STANFORD!! :DD</li>
<li>UC Berkeley </li>
<li>Caltech
4.MIT</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
</ol>

<p>I with I could go to Stanford :c</p>

112

<ol>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>New York University</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>University of Pittsburgh</li>
<li>Wesleyan University</li>
<li>SUNY Stony Brook</li>
</ol>

<p>I’m actually too picky to even have more than 6. Sad?</p>

113

<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>UC Berkeley </li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>UC Los Angeles</li>
<li>Baylor University</li>
<li>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill </li>
<li>Louisiana State University</li>
</ol>

114

<ol>
<li>MIT!! (though it’s impossible for me)</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>University of Rochester</li>
<li>Smith</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>Wellesley </li>
<li>Pittsburgh</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
</ol>

<p>And then for out of country (using as a few safeties):
Kyoto University
Hokkaido University
Nagoya University
Tokyo University</p>

115

<ol>
<li>UPenn (For Wharton)</li>
<li>Babson College</li>
<li>Northwestern (For Merill)</li>
<li>University of Chicago (Booth)</li>
<li>NYU (Stern)</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Villanova (Older brother goes here currently, he grads when I graduate high school. It’s more for their business program though)</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Williams College (Older sister and about 5 of my cousins went here. It’s the family college. I hate it but the scholar atmosphere is good)</li>
</ol>

<p>So yeah, want to stay in the Northeast.</p>

116

<ol>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>WashU</li>
<li>CU Boulder</li>
<li>UT Austin</li>
<li>UPenn-relatives</li>
</ol>

<p>I used to want to go to like 20 but thank god ive narrowed it down. Probably applying ED to northwestern- hopeful wildcat!</p>

117

<ol>
<li>University of Georgia</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>University of Alabama</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>SMU</li>
<li>UT Austin</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
</ol>

118

<ol>
<li>Boston University (so expensive though)</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>Northeastern University</li>
<li>UPenn (super super high reach, applying for kicks mostly)</li>
<li>Wake Forest University</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
</ol>

<p>I can’t think of anywhere else I’d truly enjoy going, besides Michigan State University, which is my safety (I live in Michigan).</p>

119

<ol>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>U of Miami</li>
<li>Belmont</li>
<li>Yale (Reach)</li>
<li>Azusa Pacific (Safety)</li>
</ol>

120

<p>No particular order
Harvard (reach)
Cornell (reach)
Cal Poly SLO
Missouri S&T
Florida
Florida State
Washington StL
Bowdoin College
Kansas University (my worst-case scenario backup as I’m guaranteed admission and it’s cheap)</p>