<p>lol the list of dreams
Major: Finance/Econ/IR/Astrophysics (who knows)
Reaches (only applying to 3 or 4 of these):
Brown
Gtown
Harvard
UPenn
Stanford
Tufts
Yale</p>
<p>Targets/Matches:
George Washington
NYU
UNC Chapel Hill (in-state)
Wake Forest
UVa</p>
<p>Safety:
UGa
Clemson</p>
<p>I’m a senior this year. Think about your colleges in the spring and summer of this year. Take the SAT or ACT for the first time this spring. I took it in April and got a 27 without studying. I got out of school in May, studied for one week in June, took the June ACT and got a 31. That’s my biggest tip. The homeworkless time of the summer is the ideal time to study hard and gain major points. As far as thinking about colleges, I had a little bit of an idea because I went on tours when my brother was looking. That made it easier to figure out what I wanted without much pressure. When it came time for me to think, I started college visits spring of junior year and was done by late August. I did all of my research over the summer and was largely decided on where to apply by the time school came around which meant one big thing that I didn’t have to worry about that everyone else did. It was great. All I had to do was decide on a 2 colleges I was on the fence about. I had found what I called my college list equilibrium. Some people still don’t know one school they want to apply to and I have all of my apps done. That brings me to my last tip. When the common app opens up August 1st, use your summer free time to fill it out and at least start thinking about your essays if not writing them. It always seems to work out that a big Lit essay or something is due the same day as apps. Get as much out of the way as possible over the summer and once you get back to school, sit down with your councilor and make sure you know how much notice they need on transcript requests, what teacher and councilor recommendation procedures are, and ask any other questions you may have. Sorry this is so long but all of this made my life sooooooo much easier so I figured I’d impart my knowledge upon you all. Good luck!! Let it be an experience not just a source of stress!! </p>
<p>Major: Applied Mathematics, Computer Science (Minor in music?)
Reaches: Princeton
MIT
Yale
Harvard
Stanford</p>
<p>Matches:
UCBerkeley
UCLA</p>
<p>Major: Applied Mathematics, Computer Science (Minor in music?)
Reaches: Princeton
MIT
Yale
Harvard
Stanford</p>
<p>Matches:
UCBerkeley
UCLA</p>
<p>@PhysicsisPhun15 Thanks for the insight! </p>
<p>I’m actually laughing. Wait until you get to the essays and since when is UCLA and UCB a match?</p>
<p>@Hawkace </p>
<p>More likely than CMC being a match IMO.</p>
<p>Reaches:
Penn</p>
<p>High Targets to Matches:
NYU
Boston College
UNC</p>
<p>Safeties:
Bentley
Indiana
Clemson</p>
<p>@Hawkace In other posts, DrPhil said they had a 4.0 and scored around 2300+ on practice tests. Now, practice tests might not translate directly to the actual SAT in a test environment, but I would say that if DrPhil scores 2250+, UCB and UCLA should be matches.</p>
<p>@Cosmological The big difference is the word, “if.”</p>
<p>No major but a list of places where I’m applying
UCLA
UCSD
UCB (even though I don’t want to go there)
Rice
JHU
USC
UNC Chapel Hill
UMichigan
UChicago
Washington U
CMU
U Notre Dame
Northwestern
college apps look fun next year…</p>
<p>Why apply somewhere you have no intention of going? :-? @swiftyfan13x </p>
<p>@ThatPurpleKoala Since UC’s have the same application, it’s easy to add a campus. Since Berkeley is high in rankings, the OP is probably applying just for the hell of it. </p>
<p>@Hawkace Even with the app being the same for all UCs, I still don’t see the point in adding a school you wouldn’t attend “just for the hell of it” but maybe that’s just me.</p>
<p>Major: Not quite sure yet, but probably Lit
Schools:
UCSC (in-state for UCs)
UCI
UCSB if they bring back their their lit program
UMass Amherst
Emerson College
Hamilton College
SUNY Genesoe
SUNY Purchase
McGill
UBC</p>
<p>UC Berkeley is a match for me… in case I get rejected from all my other colleges @ThatPurpleKoala </p>
Major: Social Work
Reaches: CUNY Hunter, CSULA (first choice, currently in between match/reach)
Matches: San Diego City
Safeties: CUNY BMCC, LA City (last resort)
In State: Montclair (3.3 is in the 75%, but 1410 SAT is below 25%? Weird).
Major: Journalism, Political Science or Public Relations
Reaches: UPenn, Columbia
Match: CUNY-Macaulay Honors
Safety: CUNY
Major: Engineering
Dartmouth
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Williams
Amherst
major: Elementary Education with a concentration in English Russell Sage College, local CC
Excellent bump, now we shall get started.
• Fresno State University - Mathematics B.A.
• Humboldt State University - Applied Mathematics B.A.
• San Jose State University - Statistics B.S.
• Sonoma State University - Statistics B.S.
• University of California, Merced - Applied Mathematics B.S.
• University of California, Santa Cruz - Computational Mathematics B.A.
Will re-post with any updates if needed. Good luck on your college choices Class of 2016, make them count.