<p>Penn ED applications decreased by 2%. Not much, but a decrease.</p>
<p>Trendy schools to apply to in my town (prep school and public high school)-</p>
<p>School------------How General Consensus Perceives it:
Boston College-It's one of the top schools, has a great location, you can be a snob if you get in;
Georgetown- Avoid that Ivy league competition, be chic and get some national prestige;
University of Vermont- It's all about nature, hippies, skiing, and its easy to get into.
Northeastern University- It's in Boston, It's easy enough to get into, I won't be another kid going to the state university if I enroll there, and it's on the rise in rankings;</p>
<p>Everyone at my school wants to go to Brown. It seems as if half of the grade is applying (we're only 51, though).</p>
<p>A lot of people from my school are applying to Dartmouth actually (including a couple ED)</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania down here.</p>
<p>Dang, at my school, to all the seniors that I have talked with, almost all the time they have included Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton in their list. </p>
<p>But for the majority, I'd say Stanford</p>
<p>There seem to be a lot of Vanderbilt and WashU applicants at my school, but of course that has to do with my location. There are, as always, a noticeable amount of apps headed towards the east coast as well.</p>
<p>Our local community college is #1 by a wide, wide margin.</p>
<p>Since my school has only 180 kids in a grade... it's pretty hard to determine an 'it school'. If I have to guess, Yale and Princeton would be at the top. I guess Vanderbilt and BC too.. </p>
<p>In general, a lot of top students at my school are applying early to Ivies/Duke. (with the exception of Harvard..)</p>
<p>People at my school, for the most part, stay in the East Coast.</p>
<p>Surprise 'it school' of the year though has to be Bowdoin.</p>
<p>USC for my school!</p>
<p>aghh I'm worried that so many people are doing stanford this year.... !!! only 14 days left for decisions</p>
<p>UPENN, BROWN, CORNELL we have about 20 or so for each of those and my grade has 550 kids</p>
<p>at my school, it's harvard and stanford...penn's close behind though. strangely enough, princeton is not very popular. i'm the only ED applicant from my school...</p>
<p>Oh the whole my school definitely sends the most kids to the CC, and a lot to SUNY schools as well (though some SUNYs are good schools). Among the top portion of the class I see a lot of NYU and Columbia, which isn't surprising considering we're maybe 70 mi from NYC.</p>
<p>Brown and Cornell here!</p>
<p>at my school, in order:</p>
<p>cornell
columbia
mit
harvard/yale
princeton</p>
<p>Haha yeah local CC at my school too.</p>
<p>As for 4 year colleges-
UC Santa Cruz is always a big one. It's either the dream school for the slacker-y AP kids or the backup school for the overachievers who'd rather go to higher-tier UCs or a private school (I fall into the latter group :-D)</p>
<p>Not quite at my school, but it seems like nationwide Brown has become REALLY trendy. Perhaps because it has the reputation as the funky, non-nerdy Ivy where there's no core requirements and people actually do social things and have sex? Who knows. That's part of why I didn't apply - the trendiness kind of bothered me. Yeah I know that sounds really stupid, but my other reasons are a lot better (i.e. it's harder to get in to than most of my other schools AND I didn't like it nearly as much as the other ones and there's no point in me spending a lot of time on an app for a school I don't really care about).</p>
<p>Everyone at my school applies to UVA- kinda a right of passage.</p>
<p>A huge amount of people applying to cornell in my school. Around 25</p>
<p>i've beem hearing a LOT about NYU and UCLA this year</p>