<p>okay i know that nobody wants to even think about not getting in, but what other schools are you guys interested in? i’ve been accepted to st andrews in scotland already. i’m also interested in pomona, claremont mckenna, colgate, hamilton, lehigh and princeton.</p>
<p>hey jenn
i'm applying to 11 other schools if i don't get in, but the only ones I'm really, really interested in are:
Dartmouth
Harvard
MIT</p>
<p>None of them are exactly what I would call Brown-esque...but then again, what is?</p>
<p>Some other schools are: University of Rochester, Duke, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>I was accepted to UMich early, but that's a safety net.</p>
<p>Duke is my second choice, and then I have a moderately lengthy list that includes Dartmouth, Cornell, UPenn, Wesleyan, Tufts, Northwestern and UF (Florida resident; it's a given).</p>
<p>haha i forgot.. i applied to UF as well... born in palm beach =]</p>
<p>Other than Brown, my top choices are Dartmouth, Columbia, Northwestern. In some order.</p>
<p>a lot of dartmouths... i actually visited dartmouth on a weekend during summer @ brown, but i just don't think rural new hampshire is right for me. the campus is beautiful though!</p>
<p>NYU, Northwestern, University of Rochester, Boston University. Live in LI so the NYU is a given. Best friend lives in Chicago so Northwestern is on the list. NYU is definetely my 2nd favorite!</p>
<p>Columbia used to be my top choice. Then I saw Brown, and realized that Columbia was basically the opposite of what I actually wanted in college. Plus, I am not a big fan of how certain events (Ahmadinejad, the racist incidents, the hunger strike) have been handled/received by the students over the past year.</p>
<p>I applied early to Yale, but Brown is wonderful and a close 2nd. Highly unlikely I'll get into either.</p>
<p>Also looking at Northwestern, NYU, Emory, USC, BC, and others...</p>
<p>I actually never thought I'd apply to an Ivy, but Brown caught my eye. Because of that, it doesn't really fit with my other schools. BUT Brown is without a doubt my first choice. It just seems perfect :)
My other top choices are GWU, Fordham, and American. I'm interested in international relations and big cities, so that's what these have in common :) Georgetown would have been right after Brown, but I didn't get to take SAT II's.
I also applied and was accepted instate to College of Charleston and University of South Carolina.</p>
<p>I will be happy at any of the schools I applied to, but Brown is where I want to be!</p>
<p>Oh and by "accepted to UMich early," I meant through rolling admission. Hahaha, that should have been made clear. Whoops!</p>
<p>Wow. I'm also applying to Northwestern if I don't get into Brown.
Jeez. Northwestern is really popular. And Dartmouth.</p>
<p>duke's def. my 2nd choice, then...vassar (I could play tennis there!) , tufts, jhu (another tennis school), colgate, ucla, berkeley, uc davis (calif. resident)...I've already sent the UCs, Duke, and Vassar, currently finishing up hopkins. i swear, if i get in to brown, i won't really care about "wasted" time doing other apps, but if i don't get in/get deferred, i'll probably be too upset to actually put effort into the others. so i guess i better finish up this week...blah</p>
<p>I went through that same ordeal with columbia, daveb. It has some weird appeal, where without knowing anything about it, everyone wants to go.</p>
<p>In order of preference:
Brown</p>
<p>Yale
Pomona
Cornell
Wesleyan
U of C / Johns Hopkins
Berk/ucla
sd/sb</p>
<p>Brown is up and away my first choice. I'm pretty sure I'd be happy at my first 4, hopefully my top 5, but Brown kicks their ass. I really don't want to go to school in california, pomona is the only exception i think i'd willingly make.</p>
<p>earl, have you visited pomona? i went to claremont mckenna's "on campus day" and was suprisingly thrown off by the remoteness/lameness of claremont (the town). I was originally planning on applying to cmc and pomona, but i realized that i wouldn't be able to stand the being, well, enclosed in such a village. yes, it was cute, but it was also somewhat suffocating. at least to me...and i don't even live in a big city at all, just a beach town a few hours up the coast.... good education, but i agree, it's time to get out of ca.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm just finishing up my Duke app. Have to get started on the rest of my common app supplements pretty soon, I guess.</p>
<p>Anyone else beginning with this, too?</p>
<p>I reeeeallly need to get going on my other apps... like, now.</p>
<p>I did visit Pomona, right after I saw ucla, which blew me away (ucla's campus is pretty stellar). Since I didn't see the other colleges in the consortium, but just heard the tour guide say something like "they're mostly over there. it goes on for a while.", I assumed that combined they probably don't feel super small. I talked to a few students and they said that socially the school doesn't feel small, since there is a reasonable amount of interaction between the students. I like a lot of the aspects of LACs, but I'm in the same boat as you in terms of not wanting too small a school. Pomona is the only LAC I'm applying to for that reason: with the consortium it's 5k, which is the size of a medium-small school, (not counting grads, only 1000 less than brown). Plus, LA is like 20 minutes away.</p>
<p>I was also considering applying to the Claremont schools (I'm a CA resident), but I was put off by how boring and remote everyone said they are.</p>
<p>Wish I was allowed to apply anywhere past the Mississippi River. A CA school would be awesome.</p>