<p>A few years back:</p>
<p>Dinged: Yale (ED, then waitlist), Wharton (donor legacy), Georgetown SFS. </p>
<p>In: Chicago, JHU, LSE. </p>
<p>Had some middling, regional LAC type schools like William & Mary / Washington & Lee as safeties. </p>
<p>AP Scholar with Distinction, IB with 36 points, public magnet.</p>
<p>Well UChicago EA</p>
<p>then maybe Johns Hopkins or Wash U St. Louis RD</p>
<p>and I’ve already gotten into Rutgers (safety)</p>
<p>D’s list</p>
<p>Pomona, Scripps, Duke, Tufts, Trinity (CT), UMaryland (safety), George Washington, Claremont McKenna, Reed</p>
<p>(List may get short if she gets a yes on EA)</p>
<p>Others strongly considered: Johns Hopkins, Brown, Yale</p>
<p>Reed, St. John’s College, New College of Florida, Evergreen State College (Safety).</p>
<p>Wellesley
Barnard
Bryn Mawr </p>
<p>(^ lol, i know, 3 all women’s…)</p>
<p>Bowdoin
Haverford
Carleton</p>
<p>University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign</p>
<p>D’s list:</p>
<p>Accepted at Bard College and Florida State already.</p>
<p>Others applied to: U Michigan, U Florida, Skidmore, Washington U STL, Tufts and New College of Florida (hi goldustwoman!)</p>
<p>I’ll apply next year, but right now, my list is:</p>
<p>UChi (reach), Stanford (reach), Amherst (reach), Kenyon, Truman State (safety), Illinois Wessleyan, Carleton, St. Olaf</p>
<p>more are being added and more are being taken off all the time, though.</p>
<p>I’m different from most people as I chose the schools that would pobably best fit me over prestige in some cases, but I’m more than happy with my list:</p>
<p>USC
Chicago
U Miami
Tulane (safety)
Penn state (safety).</p>
<p>Whoa! ^ One of those things is not like the others!</p>
<p>If “fit over prestige” for you yields USC, Miami, Tulane, and Penn State, maybe you should take out some life insurance before you enroll at Chicago. Just in case the unofficial motto turns out to be true.</p>
<p>^ hahaha lol</p>
<p>UMich (safety, in)
Columbia</p>
<p>Last year this was my list: </p>
<p>Chicago (EA)
Yale
JHU / Peabody Conservatory
UCLA
UPenn
Harvard / New England Conservatory
Rice
Tufts / New England Conservatory
UMichigan
Columbia / Juilliard</p>
<p>MSHP, I’m feeling you on the women’s colleges.</p>
<p>Chicago EA
BC EA
Georgetown EA
UGA EA
GA State</p>
<p>Chicago EA
Yale
UC Berkeley (out-of-state)
UCLA
Columbia
Dartmouth
Northwestern (gasp)
MIT</p>
<p>and a safety or two if I get deferred/rejected from Chicago…which hopefully doesn’t happen. :(</p>
<p>I only applied to UChicago EA and Wheaton (IL), but I’m finishing up my application for UT Austin, my safety. If I get deferred or rejected at UChicago, then I’m going to apply for Smith, Wellesley, and maybe Columbia. But if I get accepted, then it’s goodbye applications and hello Chicago!</p>
<p>hopefully <em>crossed fingers</em> i won’t have to apply to any of these places RD. hehe</p>
<p>Wheaton (IL)
williams
swarthmore
wellesley
dartmouth
yale
bowdoin</p>
<p>UChi (obv)
Stanford
Rice
Northwestern
Georgetown
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
Tulane</p>
<p>I’m no applying anywhere else if I get in EA, but if I don’t…</p>
<p>Cornell, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan, Reed, Bates</p>
<p>Bowdoin, Carleton, UMich (already admitted), WashU, Northwestern, UChicago, Michigan State (Safety)</p>