<p>Did you because it was a big school or because it had your major? Or you applied for the name? Name your reasons.</p>
<p>Harvard - Math 55, it fascinates and scares the living **** out of me. Also The Harvard/NEC double program where so I could do music at a high level as well as academics (I fully appricate that doing Math 55 would be a hiatus from music, which I am OK with because the program doesn’t have you start at NEC until the second year). The fact that my dad (and grandpa) went to Yale is a plus lol.</p>
<p>Yale - Yale/Yale Music double program, the dean of the graduate school of music says that it is composer rather than preformer centric. My dad has brainwashed me as to how amazing it is since I about 6 months old.</p>
<p>Princeton - Amazing math program; my “math mentor” would be at the Institute for advanced studies for the my first and second year. Also the Student Composer Alliance is amazing.</p>
<p>Caltech - Incredible Math; weird and quirky kids and Real Genius was my favorite movie when I was little.</p>
<p>U Chicago - Prof. Sally’s Honors Analysis course is the closest thing to Harvard’s Math 55. The Core will force me out of my confort zone a bit as I know other wise I wouldn’t be seen anywhere near a class without equations in it, which is not a bad thing btw. Also Scav Hunt looks RIDICULOUSLY FUN.</p>
<p>Brown - Will give me the freedom to pick whatever classes I want, and if/when I choose to leave my “equation-centric” mental safe haven I can do pass/fail so classes can if I so choose be about the fun of learning interesting things not busting my ass for a B+</p>
<p>Reed and Amherst - See U Chicago minus Hon. Analysis and Scav Hunt.</p>
<p>University of Washington - For the Honors program, strong medicine program and computer science program, lots of networking opportunities, big school, close to home, pretty campus. =)</p>
<p>Michigan State University- I fell in love with the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. It was everything I wanted. </p>
<p>University of Michigan- Wanted to see if I could get in.</p>
<p>I picked my school because it part of my favorite athletic league :D</p>
<p>I only applied to 5 schools.</p>
<p>-Florida State University: In-state school that would give me a lot of money.
-Wake Forest: It’s pretty.
-Vanderbilt: It’s pretty. Lots of grass. My parents loved it. I would have stuck out in that school.
-George Washington University: Location. Lots of merit money.
-Emory: Close to home. Relatively liberal. Atlanta. I like the name. Also very pretty.</p>
<p>I guess I was pretty superficial when it came to applying to colleges. But it worked out for me.</p>
<p>UWash - I freaking love Seattle
Cal Poly - great engineering and cheap as hell for CA residents
Colorado - The state is pretty cool and it’s a good safety
SJSU - best engineering program in the CSU system outside of the Polys and good networking opportunities for tech companies in the Silicon Valley</p>
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[<em>]Cambridge:
Really distinctive style of education. It was my first choice for years. The interview was the most intense academic experience of my life.
[</em>]Dartmouth:
Woodsy. Winter Festival. Smallish.
[<em>]Edinburgh:
I like the city. A lot. It cost like 4 pounds to tick off another college on my UCAS and I figured I would be rejected from Cambridge. The Scottish system is more open, subject-wise, than the English
[</em>]Harvard:
I was pretty not into it for a while, but my friend came back and said “Harvard’s awesome!” She was actually sent home by Harvard to recruit, so maybe I shouldn’t have listened to her. But really, it was great when I visited. Harvard has resources out the wazoo, which is important to me since I usually become interested in really obscure/esoteric stuff. And it has a shizz ton of languages.
[<em>]Georgetown:
It was actually the only school in my “second category” that I ended up applying to. I wouldn’t have applied, actually, if I had known where else I would be accepted early. Nonetheless, I really liked the EMT program (GERMS).
[</em>]Manchester:
Two of my UK friends thought it was cool, so I checked it off on my UCAS
[<em>]MIT:
Noam Chomsky worked there. Need I say more? If so, the blogs, the fact that they require hard maths/sciences, general MIT culture. My mother had been warning me that it was fug, but I actually thought it was really pretty when I visited.
[</em>]Swarthmore:
Discovery Swarthmore AKA DiscoSwat was super fun. The fact that they have a good dance program was really exciting.
[<em>]University of Chicago:
They have awesome mail. That’s where it started. It’s near where my sister goes to school. They offer a shizz ton of languages and have a really good linguistics program. When I visited, I thought it was the best place ever. UofC has cool culture.
[</em>]University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies:
If I’m studying linguistics, I want to concentrate on Asian languages, so I randomly checked it off on my UCAS
[<em>]Yale:
I’m another brainwashed applicant. My grandfather decided I should go there when I was born. But really, Yale is awesome. When I was about 12, I got really into collegiate schools (eg: Oxford and Cambridge) but I like Yale’s system better now. Resources are more evenly divided. They’ve good programs in my possible major(s) and a shizz ton of languages.
[</em>]York:
I know a guy in the UK who works there and those two UK guys I mentioned up above also thought it was “quality,” so I checked it off on my UCAS.
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<p>^ Which college did you apply at for Cambridge.</p>
<p>Christ’s. The college of Darwin and Milton. But I was pooled to Murray Edwards.</p>
<p>^ Chirst’s is amazing, I went for Trinity (maths). Murray Edwards is nice as well, although it is all women I don’t know if that’s a deal breaker or not. Also did you fly over for your interview?</p>
<p>Also I love how you put “quality” in quotes lol, that is so ingrained in my normal speech that I didn’t realize that it was quotably odd.</p>
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<p>I always find this amusing.</p>
<p>^ Everyone always does…</p>
<p>All female isn’t a deal breaker, but I’ve been leaning towards MIT of late. My Yale interviewer also freaked me out and made me feel uncertain about my subject (linguistics) when he asked me “what about art history?” The second he said it I just thought, “Yeah. What about art history?” and wondered how easy it was to switch Tripos.</p>
<p>I flew over for interview since they don’t offer them here. Staying overnight at Christ’s was amazing.</p>
<p>Switching in the Tripos is not possible you have to re-apply in your new subject area. And I agree the overnight stay was AMAZING… I love Trinity and I got my offer but I’m not too sure because I don’t want to only study maths at university/college.</p>
<p>Stanford- Visited over the summer, was mesmerized. + Hopkins Marine Station :).
UC Berkeley- Good school, good bio. Instate.
UC San Diego- Good school, good bio. Scripps. Instate.
UC Santa Barbara- ELC=Admittance. Gotta have backups.
Cal Poly SLO- Not really sure, actually.</p>
<p>Uh…yeah. We’ll see what happens.</p>
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<p>Oh, really? I’d heard of joining subjects after Part I to do Part IIA and IIB.</p>
<p>UC-Berkeley because of the great Applied Math program
UCLA because of the great Applied Math program
NYU because of the great Applied Math program</p>
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<p>man i applied to 11 colleges. why? all had great biology depts.</p>
<p>Why does everyone here have better stats to get into college than I do?!</p>