<p>When they ask what other colleges you're applying to in the Common App supplement, is that an optional question? Am I seriously supposed to answer it?
I don't want to give the impression that Kenyon isn't a top choice just because a few of my other schools have bigger names.</p>
<p>There was a long discussion on this somewhere else on CC. You could try a search.</p>
<p>It is an optional question. I asked my guidance counselor about it because some of the smaller LACs were my top choices, but I also applied to a few "name" schools just for the heck of it. As she said, nothing is set in stone and they will not come after you for saying that you're a liar. When I filled out mine for Kenyon I wrote similar schools such as Whitman and Colorado College.</p>