Right now my list is, in order of selectivity:
Stanford (ahhhh dream school <333), Yale, Columbia (maybe???), Princeton (maybe???), MIT (yas), Brown (ahhh <3), Pomona, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Amherst, Wiliams, UC Berkeley, Carleton, Wellesley, UCSD, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, Smith, and UC Merced. I’m probably also going to apply to Harvard just for kicks and giggles (aka my parents’ egos) and UPenn because apparently everyone in my family except me is in love with that school, and I should totally apply to fulfill their dreams!
How are you guys figuring out if a school is a safety? I have a couple of schools in mind but I feel like my stats aren’t strong enough for it to be a safety.
@tigerman333 I’d be Kelley too! Accounting, more specifically. I’m not sure if I would get in Direct Admit, because I got a 3.9W freshman year, then I transferred to a different and more rigerous high school, which doesn’t use the 4.0 grading scale, while dealing with some very difficult family situations (dad was deployed overseas for a year. He’s in the military). because of that, my GPA completely tanked sophomore year. I talked to the admissions officer today, and she said that if I struggled one year, and my GPA was lower one year due to a colossal life changing event, to elaborate about it in my essays and get in touch with Kelley. She was confident that the issues that came with having my dad deployed would not bar me DA into Kelley. Out of my five schools, Indiana was my last choice, and my parents agreed. After today’s visit, we all concur that Indiana is the place where I belong.
I’ve spent most of today refining my list! So far, I’ve gotten it to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, University of Maryland, Penn State, Ohio State, Rochester institute of Technology, Rutgers, and University of Florida. I might add some or displace some already of the list if I find better options.
The UC admit thing will save my life if no other school (since the schools I //really// want to go to are superselective…Stanford with its 3-4% acceptance rate, hey-o!) accepts me :’) Not that UC’s are bad, though! Just that they aren’t my preferred colleges (some of them, anyway - not really planning on attending Riverside, Irvine, nor Merced).
It’s gonna be scary next time this year - some people will be getting accepted into others’ dream colleges while others are getting rejected ://
Ugh, I’m pretty sure I’m rejected from my summer program Acceptances were sent out today and while rejections haven’t been sent, not receiving an acceptance usually means you’re rejected…
Strange question, but would you put articles that you’ve written under a pseudonym on your college app?
To explain further - I’ve written for a few websites, but it was under a pseudonym; I’ve also used that same pseudonym to write for some of my school’s literary journal contests. Is it bad that I want to include the fact that I have this type of writing experience on my application, and if not, how would I go about doing it without destroying my credibility?
One of the websites I wrote for ended up shutting down (it was an editorial-based sort of site) but I still have the editor’s email/twitter (basically, her contact information). Also, there are people in the literary journal club at my school who know who I am and who can technically vouch for me, if need be.
@Faultystart maybe they’re releasing acceptances in batches? You never know.
@desideratum I would. Just because they’re under a pseudonym doesn’t mean you didn’t write them, and since you did write them, they can be mentioned on your college apps.
Okay so this is basically my list right now (in no particular order): Columbia, Bates, Colby, Bowdoin, Carleton, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, Brown, Vassar, Pomona
Ack is 11 too many? Also, I feel like I should have more match/safeties… Madison is really the only place I’m sure I’d get in of those schools. Maybe Knox College or University of Minnesota Twin Cities?
Acceptances were sent out today and while rejections haven’t been sent, not receiving an acceptance usually means you’re rejected…