<p>Falthor, I did indeed try to help you. You offended me several times when you stated you deleted all of my PM"s which contained SPECIFIC advice about certain colleges and recommended several ways to get your list down.</p>
<p>You are repetitive and pedantic. You dont listen to the advice that people give you and you apparently dont want to use your own brain, common sense and ambition to solve your problem. You have spent two weeks on this board and have gotten nowhere. You continue to chase windmills of delusion. You ask the same questions over and over. </p>
<p>I wasted too much time with you. I think everyone else is wasting their time with you. The answers you seek are in this thread. Stop asking inane repetitive and pedantic questions and get down to work. Getting into college is YOUR responsibility, not ours. The Common Application is NOT the only thing you need to do. Nor is it a panacea for solving all of your problems.</p>
<p>Nobody here is an admissions counselor, nor financial aid officer. Picking colleges is difficult if you have too many that are too similar. At some point you just have to get focused and make your choices and get on with it. You need 12 schools or so. I told you what to do for reach, match, safety. </p>
<p>If you continue to fixate on reach schools that is your problem. We cannot decide for you. It looks to me like this is a big game to you. For what reason, I have no idea, other than you find some strange satisfaction asking repetitive pedantic questions to people until all hours of the day and night, day in and day out. </p>
<p>Its time for YOU to grow up. Get off the computer, get off this website and get down to work.</p>