<p>Over April break I’m seeing upenn, swarthmore, Columbia, NYU, Yale, and Princeton. And since I live in Mass I’ll be visiting Wellesley, BU, Harvard, Amherst and such but I haven’t figured out when yet…</p>
<p>@Rashel I am visiting UMass Amherst probably in the summer what did you think of it? Like it or not really?</p>
<p>I’ve visited Stanford and Berkeley by virtue of living a reasonable distance from the two schools. Not really liking the atmosphere at either of the schools. Apart from that, I’m not too sure what other schools I would visit. So essentially I’m just applying to schools with a variety of environments (although I prefer smaller schools OR residential colleges)</p>
<p>Race to 9001 is over. My life has no meaning :(</p>
<p>So far, I have visited UCLA, USC, and Cal Poly. I like all of them, but I am not completely in love with any of them. I would rather get out of LA (hence why I didn’t fall in love with UCLA and USC). I didn’t like the buildings much at Cal Poly and I don’t like how difficult it is to switch majors. SLO is beautiful, though.</p>
<p>I may tour UCI this week since it is close to home, but I don’t have much interest in the school. I plan on visiting some east coast schools in the summer.</p>
<p>So far I’ve visited 0 schools. 
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<p>I live an hour away from Northwestern so I could visit there any day. I’m afraid to visit Washington University because I know the campus is beautiful and I probably won’t get in so I would hate to make that long drive just to fall in love and be rejected. Although I would be willing to go to Ohio State because I love the school and if I fall in love with the campus I’m likely to get in anyways. :)</p>
<p>I’ve visited Brown (lived there for two weeks), Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, and UVA. Before last August, I had only visited UVA, so this all happened pretty quickly. I loved HYP + Brown. UVA and Penn were both very pretty as well. I didn’t like Columbia that much, but then again, I only visited for 5 minutes and was then whisked away to see a Broadway show.</p>
<p>As someone who is only going to get to tour in state, I have to ask you northeastern tour people if you could give me an idea of what impression you got from each college, namely these:
Northwestern
Princeton
Umass Amherst
Olin College ofo Engineering
Carnegie Mellon, if anybody is going
Case Western Reserve, if anybody is going
I have to tour vicariously through you guys.</p>
<p>Student council app in the end of the year? 0_o ?!?!</p>
<p>To those asking about UMass Amherst:
It was very big and the campus was not “pretty” they are building new dorms for the Commonwealth Honors College though and those are supposed to be gorgeous. They have almost every major imaginable and all sorts of people, clubs, and activities on campus. The food is good on campus and the 5 college program with Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, and Smith. There seems o be little to do in the surrounding towns though. Also for a state school, the tuition is pretty high for in state residents.
If you have any more questions feel free to ask</p>
<p>anythin for Internationals?</p>
<p>Btw, has anyone heard of Lead america summer program?
is it good enough? prestigious and all?</p>
<p>People annoy me.</p>
<p>My grandfather is upset that I’m number 8 in my class only because my best friend is number 6 and we’ve been “competing” (not really … we stopped actively competing in grade school) since Kindergarten. “I know she’s your best friend, but I would rather see you two as 6 and 7 or 1 and 2 or 5 and 4.” I would actually be ahead of her if I hadn’t taken art my freshman year, but does it really matter??</p>
<p>^ and that is exactly why I am thankful my school does not rank</p>
<p>^ Exactly.</p>
<p>I’d be more likely to criticize the grandfather than the existence of class rank. Just because people make a bigger deal out of it than it needs to be doesn’t mean it isn’t useful.</p>
<p>I like ranking. I think it adds context to a GPA for college apps.</p>
<p>Lol @the replies to my earlier post, I didn’t explain that very well. I think the subscores in my dream were 794CR, 750M, and 760W, and it was out of 2500, so. After I woke up I was like “*** that’s a pretty good score.” I’m clearly going loopy <__></p>
<p>Is class rank based on GPA only?</p>
<p>Edit: “Doubleyu tee eff” is censored… wow. O_o</p>
<p>“Is class rank based on GPA only?”</p>
<p>In some places, yes. But not always. (I’ve never heard of test scores having anything to do with it, if that’s what you mean.)
My school ranks based on unweighted GPA and then considers course rigor and total credits when there’s a tie.</p>
<p>I’m against class ranking. I just don’t like the idea behind it. Although I will agree in some instances, like a 3.5 valedictorian, class rank is useful.</p>