<p>@redhuntinghat LOVE your name…I am assuming it is a catcher in the rye reference.</p>
<p>Kenyon
Macalester
Carleton
Vanderbilt
Michigan
Davidson
Northwestern
University of Chicago
Duke
Pomona
Williams
Dartmouth
Harvard</p>
<p>Might narrow it down a bit…</p>
<p>For sure:
University of Chicago (EA)
New York University
UCLA
University of Pittsburgh
SUNY Buffalo</p>
<p>Maybe:
RIT
UIUC
SUNY Stonybrook
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>If I get into Chicago I probably won’t even bother applying anywhere else, but that’s enough of a crapshoot that I already bought a nice frame for my rejection letter. Yay safeties upon safeties!</p>
<p>Is anyone applying EA to more than one school?</p>
<p>University of Florida, South Florida, Florida State</p>
<p>“1. Early Decision is binding, therefore you can only apply to one school early and if you are accepted you must matriculate to that school.”</p>
<p>Except if you ask for financial aid and the aid offered is insufficient, you can decline the ED acceptance and apply RD elsewhere.</p>
<p>Ok I revamped my list. I’m applying to 11 schools.</p>
<p>Reach:
Washington University in St Louis<br>
Vassar College
Williams College<br>
Pomona College<br>
University of Michigan
Northwestern University</p>
<p>Match:
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign </p>
<p>Safety:
Roosevelt University<br>
Loyola University Chicago </p>
<p>LOL NEVER HAPPENING:
Harvard University</p>
<p>harvard
yale
princeton
cmu
usc
columbia
mit
stanford
caltech
cornell
upenn
dartmouth
brown
rice
umich
uchicago
ucla
uc berkely</p>
<p>will reduce to 11 colleges by end of summer</p>
<p>@TinnyT
lol no wonder its acceptance rate is so low</p>
<p>Yeah, so many applicants lol @slushy9</p>
<p>I heard Early action was only when they weight test scores, Gpa, and class rank?!! Is that true? I thought for sure that it was just stronger consideration because a school was a top choice!? I ask because test scores, gpa, and rank arent my strong points and I wouldnt want to hurt myself by applying early action…</p>
<p>Florida
Florida State
Central Florida
South Florida</p>
<p>Particularly interested in FSU because of it’s good study abroad program in China.</p>
<p>As of now, I’ll be applying to:</p>
<p>Clemson University
University of South Carolina
Boston College
Lehigh
Villanova
Emory
Brandeis</p>
<p>Possibly:</p>
<p>Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Oxford or Cambridge in UK
Another Ivy just for kicks</p>
<p>Rutgers
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
UCLA
Rice
Georgia Tech
Duke
UT Austin
Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>My parents want me to apply to ivies, but idk I don’t think I would get in and I don’t think I would want to go.</p>
<p>To those of you only applying to amazing prestigious schools with low acceptance rates, what are you plans if you get rejected? What are your safeties?</p>
<p>For people like slushy9 what is the backup plan? Those are all reach schools for everyone.</p>
<p>University of Michigan
University of Chicago
SUNY Binghampton
SUNY Stony Brook
CUNY Baruch
Princeton
Yale
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
UPenn
Barnard
Boston College
Wellesley
Amherst
Williams
Tufts
Carnegie Mellon
Brandeis
Smith College
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
NYU
Syracuse</p>
<p>I still need to shorten down my list, but this is my compilation of dream schools (a lot of them), just right and good chance of getting in, and last but not least, safeties. </p>
<p>Any one getting started on college essays?</p>
<p>That’s great! 2/3 more than what i have lol. well actually i started mind and threw it out because it seemed too cliched. whats your top choice school(s)?</p>
<ol>
<li>MIT (Mass. Institute of Tech) [high reach]</li>
<li>Cornell [low reach]</li>
<li>Georgia Tech [match/low reach]</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania [high reach]</li>
<li>UCLA - Berkeley [low reach/match]</li>
<li>University of Chicago [reach]</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon [high reach]</li>
<li>University of Florida [safety]</li>
<li>University of Miami [safety]</li>
<li>Florida State University [safety of all safeties of all safety of safety safe safety]</li>
</ol>
<p>I’m an upcoming Senior from Southern California and I’m applying to:
UC Santa Barbara
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
UCLA
USC
but I’ll put UCSD and UCSB as the ones I’ll work hard to get into
I got a lousy 1690 on my SAT and a crappy 20 on my ACT, so idk if I’ll even be accepted into those schools</p>