Having trouble narrowing down my college list

squashgirl
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:27:36 +0000

Yes, I am obligated to apply to Brown and Princeton because of my family.

So should I take Harvard and Yale off my list then? Right now, my order of preference for the tippy-top of my list is something like this:


Brown/Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Duke
Stanford
Dartmouth


However, I feel like I have a better shot at Dartmouth than at Princeton, Yale, and Harvard, and can see myself being happy there. Same with Stanford–my school has a pretty good acceptance history there.

Any thoughts?