<p>Hi Guys, </p>
<p>I am from Ontario, Canada. I will be applying for admissions in states this fall of 2010.
I will be applying to Columbia, UPENN, and Harvard. </p>
<p>What about you guys ?</p>
<p>USA:</p>
<p>1.)Duke
2.)Harvard
3.)Princeton
4.)Cornell
5.)California-Berkeley
6.)Columbia
7.)Stanford
8.)Yale</p>
<p>CANADA:</p>
<p>1.)McGill
2.)Toronto
3.)British Columbia
4.)Queens
5.)Calgary</p>
<p>A ton of applications to do, but the more I apply to, the better the chance of me getting into one of them right? There’s no point going to the USA imo if the college you’re going to isn’t better than EVERY college in Canada; so I’m only applying to top-tier American schools. I’ve listed everything in order of preference.</p>
<p>Even plenty of small American colleges ***** on every Canadian school: Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Middlebury, I could go on.</p>
<p>@Nosike: SMART! I see you point and I think the same way. what are your guys stats?</p>
<p>How is that smart? He just went to the Times Higher Ed. ranking and picked every school ranked above McGill. Dartmouth doesn’t show up till like 80-something and it’s better than Cornell, Duke, and Berkeley.</p>
<p>Why does everyone type “UPENN” in capitals like it’s an acronym?</p>
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<p>Not worth the effort of releasing the shift button after the first two letters.
The shift button is a powerful thing.
:P</p>
<p>^LOL
Ivies and a couple other top schools…that is if I don’t get into my ED school (Upenn)O.O</p>
<p>just 'cause you apply to more schools doesn’t mean your chances increase for getting into one of them…</p>
<p>I’m from B.C.</p>
<p>Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, McGill, NYU, Notre Dame, UBC, U San Francisco, Fordham, Simon Fraser</p>
<p>Why bother with Fordham?</p>
<p>NYU is a lock given decent numbers.</p>
<p>The fact that onimpulse includes Notre Dame, U San Francisco and Fordham might mean he is interested in a Catholic higher education, something that is not really available in Canada.</p>
<p>^New York City is my dream city for college, so I’m applying to Fordham for two reasons: One, in case I get rejection letters from both Columbia and NYU, and two, in the event of my getting accepted to NYU with pathetically insufficient financial aid.</p>
<p>And tomofboston rightly extrapolates that if I do not get into Ivies or am unable to attend NYU, I’d at least like to go to a school that reflects my faith, which does indeed happen to be Catholicism.</p>
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Based on…?
What?</p>
<p>Lol, I would pick Berkeley over Dartmouth any day for math, cs, or the sciences. I mean they even have a class on Starcraft (seriously)! :)</p>
<p>Actually applying to more schools does increase your chances: e.g. applying to Harvard: chance of admission = 7.5%; not applying to Harvard: chance of admission = 0% lol.</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure that Nosike is a solid applicant, but I’m saying that applying to more schools to increase probability of getting into just one of them doesn’t work for everyone (like for myself, as of now at least).</p>
<p>Like right now I have a <2100 SAT. If I went and applied to HYPSM and more Ivys it doesn’t necessarily mean that I will be more likely to get into one of them just because I applied to a lot of schools because my SAT is so dismal that I would probably be rejected immediately at all these schools. Chances are it wouldn’t matter if I applied to 1 or 10 of such schools because without phenomenal ECs and <2100 my chances are close to zero anyways. That was the point I was trying to make.</p>
<p>Ah, yes. I guess that would only apply if you tried your best and had decent results.</p>
<p>Even if your SAT is >2100, if you applied to more than one school your chances would still go up, assuming that at least one of them is of equal quality. Chances only stay the same if the percentage is 0, e.g. a 1500/2400 SAT. At the same time, if your chance is, say, 0.1% for one school and 0.2% for five schools, you would have to seriously consider whether it’s worth the time, money, and effort.</p>
<p>what province are you guys from. i am from ontario. not that smart. really good extra curricular but an 84 avg. trying to make it 87+ next year :)</p>
<p>Wow, I think I’m the only one from Saskatchewan on here haha</p>
<p>Anyways, I am applying to </p>
<p>-Yale (number one)
-Columbia (close second)
-Harvard
-Princeton
-NYU
-Boston University
-U Chicago
-Northwestern
-Stanford</p>
<p>Canada:
-U of S (obviously)
-UBC
-Mcgill
-I still need to look into other schools in Canada like Queens, Dalhousie etc.</p>
<p>I want to study sciences or medicines, otherwise I would be applying to some of the liberal arts colleges in the states as well.</p>
<p>are you all applying to need based and need blind financial aid schools in usa ?</p>