<p>what is UIUC???
Mine is stanford and Caltech</p>
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<p>university of illinois at urbana-champaign.</p>
<p>Is a dream school one where a student, the one who dreams of attending the school, can be successful there?</p>
<p>I have had this question on the 'dream school' term that I have been hearing in the college search. It is also sometimes known as 'the reach' school, possibly.</p>
<p>If a school is a reach, wouldn't it be difficult for a student to do well and be successful there? This would then make the school less a dream school and more a nightmare school. I am assuming reach and dream are in the academic sense and not in the financial sense. After all, when we see the omnipresent CHANCE ME threads, academic numbers are ALWAYS given. I have never seen a student's (or parents') credit rating provided in the numbers data.</p>
<p>So I have been thinking: if it is so doubtful that one might not have what it takes (academically) to get into a college, which is, after all, an academic institution, mightn't it be like the proverbial dog catching the car the dog is chasing if a student gets his or her 'dream' school?</p>
<p>This question goes back to the idea that the best school- hey, let's call it a dream school - is the school that fits the student in all ways, academically, socially, and finacially.</p>
<p>I bring this up because what my daughter was thinking of as a dream school seemed to lose some of its allure (for my daughter) once we looked more into the whole package of the school (academic, social and financial expectations of the school). It was deemed a dream school due to the charming campus layout and prestige, I think.</p>
<p>I guess a wrap up is the saying that I have heard in CC by various posters:</p>
<p>Happiness is having what you want and not in getting what you do not have. Or, 'love your matches'.</p>
<p>Reed College</p>
<p>It's as if I designed it myself.</p>
<p>altruist, out of curiousity, based on everything you have heard and know about Reed, and knowing your intellectual abilities, if you actually attended Reed, do you think you would flourish?</p>
<p>Reed has a Princeton Review academic rating of 98.</p>
<p>Academic Rating
How hard students work and how much they get back for their efforts, on a scale of 60-99. This rating is calculated from student survey results and statistical information reported by administrators. Factors weighed include how many hours students study outside of the classroom and the quality of students the school attracts. We also considered students' assessments of their professors, class size, student-teacher ratio, use of teaching assistants, amount of class discussion, registration, and resources. Please note that if a school has an Academic Rating of 60<em>, it means that the school did not report to us a sufficient number of the statistics that go into the rating by our deadline. Please also note that a school with an Admissions Selectivity Rating of 60</em> will have an Academic Rating that is lower than it should be, since the Admissions Selectivity Rating is a factor in the calculation that produces the Academic Rating.</p>
<p>Holy Cross also has an academic rating of 98. Surprisingly, this actually scares off a lot of potential applicants because they do not want to work that hard.</p>
<p>UChicago, Berkeley, Stanford, and Rice.</p>
<p>ucla,usc,nyu....and maybe cal</p>
<p>vanderbilt</p>
<p>Georgetown, Northwestern</p>
<p>case western. hence my name.</p>
<p>MIT or CMU...hope i get in :-D</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill</p>
<p>Emory University!</p>
<p>Williams, Amherst, or Bowdoin..</p>
<p>Virginia, North Carolina, BC, Notre Dame, Michigan, Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury. Super-safeties: Colorado, Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, LSU.</p>
<p>i just want to go to college with my friends, lol. so probably berkeley =]</p>
<p>Rice!! !</p>
<p>Boston University, Wake Forest, NYU...</p>