<p>Since everyone's stressing out about finding the perfect schools (yep that's me right now) or the anticipation of waiting for the acceptance letters is getting too much why not talk about dream schools! </p>
<p>Lets imagine you were applying for colleges and you could only apply for one because you would definitely get accepted where would you go and why? Did you apply there?</p>
<p>I think I'd apply for Marymount Manhattan because I love the sound of their theatre major and the thought of living in NY for 4 years! But sadly I don't have a spare $50,000+ a year to spend. </p>
<p>Where have you applied or where are you planning on applying to? My ''applying'' to list is changing every day, it's impossible to narrow it down, right now I have 9 and no safeties! Oh dear, such stressful times.</p>
<p>University of Michigan. Applied EA, anxiously waiting to hear back. Not a safety by any means, it’s a target school for me (I hope). The programs, the campus, the athletics, it’s everything I’ve always imagined about college.</p>
<p>I have applied to:
Michigan (EA)
Binghamton (EA)
Duke
Cornell
Vanderbilt
UMD-College Park
Albany
UMiami</p>
<p>Working on:
Tulane
UGA
UT-Austin
Penn State
Albany
UMiami</p>
<p>I think right now, I have a pretty good mix of matches, safeties, and reaches. Hope everything will work itself out.</p>
<p>Eight years ago, it was Berkeley.
Now, after graduating 4 years ago, I feel the same way.</p>
<p>I would definitely tell my children to apply to Cal and UCLA. And advise them to choose either over any other school for the simple fact that those schools are a great transition between the protection in HS and the ruthlessness of real-life. </p>
<p>My list from 1995 to now (I made up my mind young, and I have never changed)</p>
<p>It makes a lot more sense for students to generate a list that includes a number of universities or colleges where they think they could be successful and happy, and apply. Then wait and see what happens. Where do you get in? Do some places offer you better need-based or merit aid than others? Select the one that seems to be offering you the best combination of price, academics and quality of life.</p>
<p>Sometimes high school students do fall in love with a particular college or university. It’s bound to happen. But it does lead to disappointment:</p>
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<p>I can’t see any sensible reason to encourage people to go out seeking this same pang of regret, and then nurturing it.</p>
<p>My dream school is Georgetown. I’m so eager to go there, and spend four years in DC, studying government, surrounded by people who love politics as much as I do, living on that beautiful campus in that perfect neighborhood, doing amazing internships. It almost hurts to think about not getting in.</p>
<p>Sikorsky - I disagree, sometimes writing things down can be seen as therapeutic and can help someone to put things into perspective. By doing this I realised that $200,000+ is really expensive for my college experience. But I also realised that I’d be just as happy at some of the other schools that I’m going to apply to.</p>