<p>MarinMom,</p>
<p>I’ll discuss what you say about applying to other UC schools. UCSB was on the list once because of their CCS program as we understood that the physics dept. at UCSB was terrific and they were very response to emails, etc. However, it does seem like a big party school and he wasn’t so sure about it. My son has one friend at church interested in UCLA as a transfer student so maybe they can talk. I think both UCLA and USC are interesting schools…You’re right. He could feel differently in 9 months! </p>
<p>For now, he’ll stick with his original list and he’ll apply SCEA to a school and the rest, obviously, RD. </p>
<p>We are waiting to hear from MIT for a special visitation weekend in September. He’s accepted and he applied for some travel assistance but he hasn’t heard back from them so I don’t know what’s going on there. We would like to try and visit Stanford in the late summer/early fall. He’s not visited Vanderbilt, Davidson, WUSTL or UTD but time and money won’t allow it most likely.</p>
<p>For now, it looks like the list of schools is 10 with most being reaches, unfortunately. I don’t really know what a match is anymore since college admissions are so fierce. I’d like to say schools like Davidson and UCSD would be matches but who knows.</p>