Here’s my current list of schools I’m applying to (West and East/Northeast):
Safety:
University of Utah (Honors College)
Utah State University
Lewis and Clark College
Match:
New York University
Boston University
Reed College
Reach:
University of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
University of Chicago
Harvard
Stanford (top choice)
Possibles (Unsure/Needs Research/Conditional):
- Williams
- Vassar
- Bowdoin
- Princeton
- UCLA, UCSD, Cal Berkeley (my family may move in a year to California;not set in stone)
- Claremont McKenna or Pomona
Most of these schools have solid humanities/social studies programs, and good financial aid for my income bracket (except for possibly USC).