Applying To Colleges

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Is that for the full... is it three or four in the States? Anyway... years, or...?

Per year.

Amazing, isn't it?

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None of those are schools I could get into, so I don't see any reaches there.

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None of those are schools I could get into, so I don't see any reaches there.

Well, I feel that way about the top six or so (minus Cornell), but I think I could get into at least one or two of them.

Sorry, meant safeties, not reaches.

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My parents seem to have gotten it into their head that I will double major in Economics and Statistics, apparently without considering whether I actuall have any interest in either.

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How would the quality of education I receive differ between a more prestigious school that I could get into and a more bland state college? Is the extra cost of attending a more prestigious school worth the education in all honesty?

It depends on the quality of the state college.  In Virginia, only a couple of schools are probably worth not going to UVA or William and Mary, or even JMU.  In other states, like Alabama or Idaho, it probably is.  Especially if you intend to go on to grad school, and can go to a good in-state school.

It really all depends on where you live

I'm not talking about in-state, I'd rather drown myself than go to U of I.

I'm talking about a decent Midwestern state school, maybe one of the UCs or a worse ranked Canadian college. I should probably give you a list if I want good advice but I still honestly have no idea which state schools I could get into yet would still like to attend.

UW-Madison
UM-Ann Arbor
UBC
University of Minnesota (maybe)
UDub (maybe)
UC-Boulder (maybe)

I wanted to go to UCLA but I realize how futile that is so I'm not even going to bother applying.

If you were to go to UCLA, you would have to live in Los Angeles.

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Well...

I GOT ACCEPTED INTO INDIANA UNIVERSITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's not a greater feeling than your first acceptance letter.

Listen Boy... do NOT waste the opportunities that will be presented at the nation's #1 party school!!!

I didn't see any mention of Arizona State in his post.

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Michigan's a safety? What?

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Yeah, since Tulane is making it free I'll probably apply there.

Come to UW, I think you have a shot at getting in. I think you have a shot at getting in most of the top-tier public schools.

In that case he should go to UVA.  #1 public school in the nation.

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I took mine on a Saturday morning last year. I was up fairly late the night before reading about Irish elections, so my strategy was to get through each section as fast as I could and then sleep until the next section. I finished one point below the cutoff. Oh, well.

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Ben, here's some data on the average student admitted from my high school to each of the colleges you listed.

School	GPA	SAT	SAT superscore
Harvard	3.99	2313	2320
Yale	3.99	2332	2340
Virginia	No	data
Northwestern	3.95	2268	2286
Duke	3.99	2302	2316
Columbia	3.96	2275	2293
William and Mary	3.90	2153	2180
Pennsylvania	3.98	2282	2289
Georgetown	3.86	2270	2320
James Madison	No	data
American	3.63	1983	1987
George Mason	No	data
Michigan	3.82	2149	2179

I don't want to be a downer, but that SAT score really isn't going to do you many favors. My friends who are seriously considering Harvard and Yale all have 4.0 unweighted and 2350 at least.

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Since everyone else is mentioning it, I'm applying early action to Fordham and DePaul and early decision to George Washington. I have no idea how my chances are for any of them.

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Tweed goes to Cornell, FWIW.

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My finalized list of colleges:
University of Idaho
University of Portland
Reed College (Early Decision)
George Washington
Case Western
Tulane
American
UBC
McGill (maybe)
University of Minnesota

a strange list

There are a lot of schools there that I'll be applying to.

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What's going on with this quote pyramid? Fix your tags, because it's illegible.

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I had thought that the deadline for Occidental was on the 15th, so I had to do their five essays after finding out this afternoon that the deadline is today. Today was also the George Washington deadline, and I wasn't seized with inspiration for one of the essays until about 90 minutes ago. I'm happy with how it turned out, though, so that's nice.

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Has anyone hear ever read College Confidential? I rediscovered it, and god is it debilitating.

It's hilarious, isn't it? I feel like most of my friends troll there for fun.

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Do all colleges have entrance applications? I don't think the public university I registered for had one.

What do you mean? Did you just enroll?

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I kind of wish that I had applied to Reed. Oh, well.

Willamette's offering me $14,000 a year in scholarships (contingent upon a 2.5 GPA), so that's appealing.

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Yeah, besides my being a boring religious, it could have been nice. But I sort of ended up applying to schools at random and at the last minute (literally the last minute in the case of Maryland). Such is life.

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Rejected from UC Santa Cruz. LOL.

Also Davis, but I was expecting that.

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ilikeverin will be pleased to know that I've gotten into Maryland and am now strongly considering attending.

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Oh, yeah, it's definitely on my list of shows that I need to get to sooner or later. Maybe this summer.

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Having spent a couple days at UMD, it seems almost certain that I'll go there. At this point, I'm looking at a double major in government and linguistics.

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NiK, I've known a couple of people who went to Rice and they loved it. Two girls from my graduating class are going there in the fall.

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I'm assuming the first university is Washington State. The second is, what, Eastern Washington?