So where else are you guys applying?

[sciolylove]

<p>MIT EA and Caltech EA </p>

<p>then Reed</p>

<p>then Indiana University
(keeping things simple)</p>

[MithsApprentice]

<p>MIT EA and Harvard, Stanford, Pton, and maybe Yale and/or Michigan Regular.</p>

[pinkytolip]

<p>Reach:
MIT EA + Caltech EA
Stanford
Princeton
Yale</p>

<p>Match:
Rice ID</p>

<p>Safety:
University of Rochester</p>

[Freakyantelope]

<p>MIT EA (deferred)</p>

<p>Then…</p>

<p>Columbia (Fu School)
Harvey Mudd
Carnigie Mellon
U Rochester
Case Western
RPI
McGill
BU</p>

[counters]

<p>Atmospheric Science major, so my options were limited.</p>

<p>MIT and Cornell were my top two choices, with Cornell ED (Tough decision, but I felt it suited me better as a school; MIT remained my dream school), followed by UC Berkeley and Purdue, then Oklahoma, Penn State, and Wisconsin-Madison as backups. All three of the backups offered me full rides, but I think for the research career I intend, it will pay in the long-run to have an Ivy or renowned school on my undergrad diploma.</p>

[Pandora]

<p>MIT EA (in)
Caltech EA (waiting)
Chicago EA (waiting)
Rice Interim (waiting)
URochester (waiting)
Princeton
Yale
Cornell Eng
Columbia Fu
Harvard</p>

<p>Thanks to MIT’s early acceptance, I can reduce my list significantly and not have to worry about safeties and matches. :D</p>

[Pegasus]

<p>Harvard, Princeton, Penn - Jerome Fisher.</p>

[WS17]

<p>Where else but at MIT can you get a list of suggested schools to investigate? This from [Matt</a> McGann’s December 11 blog](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/more_for_deferred_students.shtml]Matt”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/more_for_deferred_students.shtml).

For those students who are really attracted to MIT’s campus culture, I’ve found these students often are also happy at many other schools, including Caltech (January 2 deadline), Carnegie Mellon (Jan. 1), Cooper Union (varies), Harvey Mudd (Jan. 15), Olin College (Jan. 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). </p>

<p>For those students who particularly like the Boston area, you can also look at Boston College (Jan. 1), Boston University (Jan. 1), Brandeis University (Jan. 15), Harvard University (Jan. 1), Northeastern University (Jan. 15), Tufts University (Jan. 1), and Wellesley College (Jan. 15), among others.

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[molliebatmit]

<p>If you read back to Matt’s entries from fall '04, he was doing little pieces on other colleges for several entries in a row. They start with the entry called “Schools of Dreams.” I think many of the schools on which he did pieces are included in the list posted above, but I think there are also a few others.</p>

[bibkai]

<p>MIT EA(um… i’m happy)</p>

<p>About-to-do list
Harvard
Princeton
Columbia ( I live in New York)</p>

<p>Forgo list
Stanford
U Penn
Carnegie Mellon
Cooper Union
unknowns…</p>