Should I even consider Caltech as a possible college to apply to?

larrylamarck
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:30:31 +0000

I am looking for schools strong in CS, and many people on CC have helped me put together this list:

-UC Berkeley (reach?)
-UCLA (match/safety)
-Stanford (reach)
-MIT (reach)
-USC (match?)
-Caltech (reach)
-Princeton (reach)
-Cornell (reach?)
-Harvard (reach)
-Carnegie Mellon (reach?)
-Harvey Mudd (reach?)
-San Jose State University (safety)

Possibilities:
-Rice
-John Hopkins
-Rochester Institute of Technology
-Case Western



What is your opinion and recommendations on this? Also, I’ve talked to my dad recently about applying to schools, and he asked me how many I wanted to apply to. I said somewhere between 10-15 schools, and he seemed surprised. He said he would be content with me applying up to twenty schools if I wanted to, just to be on the safe side. He doesn’t want me to end up with having no college to go to - of course, this might be a bit overkill.