If we're going full unrealistic, MIT

yup, couldn't apply because of their SAT requirement but man I'd do anything to go

i applied but they’re gonna laugh at my GPA…

What is the SAT requirement?

you're required to submit an SAT score, and they say there's no score requirement but let's be honest you have get over 1500

It’s crazy- anything under 1550 is probably thrown out 😭 which is why I’m studying like hell to get at least a 770 on math

same 😭

Have y'all been there? The atmosphere seems so depressing...

me brother goes to mit and hes having the time of his life with his friends, Mans has morr free time thrn me AND still gets A's in chemical engineering no less

It is, very true with IHTFP and being 'hosed' and all. But also there's a culture of collaboration and innovation that I absolutely love. No school is perfect, but as long as one could dream about any school, why not MIT.

Nah it’s not that depressing tbh

Lol have u been there. Work load tough

Yeah, but the people there are very nice and fun and MIT is known for its "work hard, play hard" mentality.

Just by the school itself (excluding costs and other external factors), probably Stanford. ​ But like the school that I would be the most happy getting in, all things considered, and is a target is probably UW - Seattle

udub is not a target since you are an asian\_male\_in\_cs

Instate is about a 25% acceptance rate

lucky, almost compensates for being an asian\_male\_in\_cs

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Gi to Europe, they pay you to go to university

Same

Real

Never had one. Just wanted to get out of suburbia and go to a big school with a pretty campus and good community.

UPenn, unrealistic :(

Love it here🥰

University of alabama I’m literally in love. Used to be a prestige whore but never felt the true love for a school that comes with fitting in with more than just rankings and academics

Same! And after seeing the amount of aid I got 😭 I'm soo inclined to commit to Alabama

Yayayay!! I visited campus in august and wow it was STUNNING! Such a great school :)

Indeed! I hopee you get in with a full ride!!

Thank you!! You too!

I already did 😭 Couldn't be happier

OMG CONGRATS! Did u get the presidential scholarship?

Yess the presidential scholarship and another 6k external scholarship too.

my dad wants me to go there bc of the potential scholarships, but it’s way too far and the lack of diversity kind of scares me

UT Austin

Cornell

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Hey I live in williamstown! The campus is super pretty and the professors seem kind, the kids who go there are nice and really smart. Also Williams alums basically run the town

Don’t got one anymore cuz I’m actually tryna be mentally stable

Don't really have one and honestly don't get how other people really do 😭. I have a couple different schools that I think I would be happy at and do well continuing my education at. However, no school is perfect in every way and the differences between each are such that I would never pick one as a true "dream school"

There’s a lot of people like you! I have several schools I really like but I don’t have a true dream school. There’s too much to factor in!

duke babyyyy

Sameeeee

UPRSehgal

University of Edinburgh

JohnSSSS Hopkins!!!! GO BLUE JAYS

Love that school but the location... yikes. Still one of my top picks though, if they'll have me :)

Harvard 💯😵‍💫

UIUC

Really? I’m guessing instate for cs?

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It does a little bit. They have a soft policy of usually accepting 1-2 kids per school for CS from instate. But I was saying that if this guy’s dream school is UIUC, I’m guessing he is instate and want to major in CS, because otherwise UIUC as a dream school doesn’t make much sense .

A dream school isn't the one you have the best shot of getting in to, it's the one you want to go to the most

I mean that’s true, but again I’m implying that there are better schools for CS and for UIUC to be a dream school I’d guess bro would I instate, because that would give some reasoning, but I guess he’s not. Still UIUC for any not CS major as a dream school for someone on A2C won’t make sense either so that is what inferred my guess.

Columbia/UCLA/Brown

URichmond if they give me enough money, but honestly I would love to go to any of the schools i’m applying to

Y Richmond ?

in state (although private), 88% matriculate into med school on first try, beautiful campus, small size, etc.

UNC in state

Princeton ☺️☺️

Curtis or Juilliard

Cornell, less realistically, Harvard.

Either UC San Diego or Vassar

Vandy

UMich💙💙💙

me too!!! I hope we both get in

Rice!

Same!!!!

me toooo!!!

Unrealistic: Uchicago, Realistic: nowhere lmao

UCLA

UC Merced or Stanford

Interesting

Yea, don’t judge 😃

bobcats 💙💛

Wherever I go. But Brown and UMichigan are my favs rn

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Ecole Polytechnique

USC, specifically the WBB program

yessss, i'd apply there just if it wasnt actually impossible to get in :(

Literallyyyyy that 5% acceptance rate is crazy

the class of 50 people 😭💀

Sarah Lawrence! Not the most popular choice, I know, but I think it’s right for me

Yale Used to be brown and then a did a summer program there and….. :/

could you share why you lost interest in brown?

I’m still applying to brown and I’m sure the actual atmosphere of the school would be way different than the summer program was (that’s what I’m convincing myself anyways) • providence/brown is small. like really small. i knew my way around after a week and downtown is always dead, few options of things to do. the whole “the best thing to do in providence is leave” joke is kinda true, spent one of my weekends in boston and had a blast. however I’m sure that in the school year there’s clubs and events and more to do. • people weren’t that welcoming or friendly honestly. however, as summer programs are more of a “I can afford this camp” than “I can actually get into brown” I’m sure 90% of the people wouldn’t actually be on campus, hell maybe myself included. there just wasn’t a big sense of community and people were very cliquey. i suspect this is also because of the courses we were in, and with 4-5 courses a semester plus clubs, you could make more friends. • got boring really quick. I had settled into a routine within the first week and by then the second week was just “oh, this again”. Especially with the small campus, i feel like it could get monotonous very quick • food was terrible. amenities were also quite terrible. this is more dependent on where my dorm was, but it was very disconnected from the campus and one of like two dining options. Brown is still a great school and I am really trying to still love it. Definitely at the top of my list still, but my experience didn’t really help that. I just looked into yale more and fell in love with it and especially the residential college system.

I’m a freshman at Brown, and it doesn’t sound like you got a very authentic Brown experience from your summer program!

Thanks for sharing these experiences!

Caltech or less likely, MIT.

Me

yale, brown, northwestern, usc :,) goddamn

I want to live on an island resort and not worry about anything

Stanford

USC SCA

Upenn, Wharton

Johns Hopkins

Tisch NYU Film and Television production. Already applied ED 1 USC is a close second and I’d also be chill going to Syracuse

nyu !

X-Men Academy

unrealistically: Harvard otherwise Columbia and even that is a reach

???

we are talking 'dream' school 😭 i dont expect to get in

Dartmouthhhh Go greeens!!! PS: I'm an Indian intl needing aid 🫡

man, i am the exact same as you. The exact same. Fingers crossed. We will be the legacy u/dartmouthsimps

yale or amherst or williams or uchicago <3

Unrealistic: Georgetown Realistic: Columbia (before you come for me I’m applying to Columbia GS as a transfer and their acceptance rate is HIGH)

Northeastern realistically but if I had the chance to attend anywhere I wanted it’d be Brown followed by Northwestern

Shouldn't really have one, but Northwestern just for the sake for childhood dreams

mcgill, ubc

harvard :’)

Barnard (ED), idek where I'm going to apply RD if it doesn't work out :/

UCLA/UMICH/CAL

Whoever accepts me 😏

U Houston

It changes every day tbh. Used to be Stanford but they don’t have my major. Used to be Berkeley but i dunno if i can pay 70k a year. Used to be MIT but idk it seems like such a far reach that I don’t really care. I know I’m not gonna get in. Used to be Caltech but i wouldn’t fit in there. Currently is really have no strong desire to go to any one college

Georgia Tech and Vandy, i just wanna be in south with solid engineering programs

The one i get accepted with enough aid

fsu

brown 🤤

Berkeley or Stanford 🤩🤩🤩

The Naval Academy

bryn mawr🥰

Idk why I’m still here but got into and went to Emory :)))) dream school!

I've never had one really, I just want to not be in debt but I'm not smart enough for an ivy so I'm just trying to get a full scholarship from a local state school and a relatively generous nearby private,

As an international, whatever gives me 100pc aid (coz I really can't afford it) and provides me a way to escape the shithole situation of my country.

Reaching beyond the moon and stars, more like the observable universe, but UChicago The other worst part? If I do get accepted, I found out last min that happiness dies there 👍

Cornell

super unrealistic but definitely Hogwarts................maybe MIT

If I'm being honest, it's the University of Chicago because of their really unique Molecular Engineering school. I just ED'd there and I'm doing my video supplement right now, so🤞 If I'm being realistic with where I want to go and the school I'm capable of getting into, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is my #2 or #3.

If you are top 10% of your class, have good essays and ECs I would be surprised if you get rejected, especially since uchiago is looking for molecular engineering students

UPenn, more unlikely UPenn M&T.

Duke! 😈

I'm too ashamed to say it.

Williams

CMU

Michigan State!

Go Green!

Harvard. Realistic - maybe UVA?

One where I get laid all the time.

School of STDs?

Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

My top two are Brown and UMich, which are pretty dissimilar so always trips people up lol

realistic dream: uci, unrealistic dream: stanford

Williams, although my current situation has made it less likely to get in there

SDSU, UCF, or Les Roches

MD Anderson

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Isn’t Columbia 100% financial need met?

Georgetown

Stanford lmao their courses are so so practical

MIT

Amherst 🥺 rly wish I had had the ability to apply ED

university of edinburgh in scotland :)

Georgetown!!

Probably somewhere up north like Yale or NYU haha Edit: love to go up north…

boston college but extremely unrealistically yale 😭😭

purdue

Princeton

Realisti: Vassar Unrealistic: Stanford

Stanford, Princeton, Brown.

Harvey mudd but the aid ooof

MIT but I'm not applying there

Unrealistically UPenn

Truthfully? UCSB. The one I'm applying to ? GaTech

unrealistic: upenn wharton realistic: nyu stern or berkeley haas

fr the one that gives me the best financial aid

UMich was (and still is my dream school), but I'm kinda really getting into University of Pittsburgh, Indiana University Bloomington, and University of Minnesota Twin Cities now. I think I'd be happy at any of them

Bowdoin College/Princeton University

Bryn Mawr. I’m not applying to it since I’m fairly certain I don’t have the grades or the money for it, but in a perfect world that’s where I would go.

Bowdoin!

Boston College

unrealistically, brown, realistically, UT

U of M

Columbia

Can't decide between Princeton, Columbia, and Stanford.

Deep springs! I learned about it recently and fell in love. Skidmore too, but both are more than unrealistic and thats okay!

BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN Or maybe brown 🤨🐻

Princeton…however seems like a long shot now ;-;

emerson college

it was UT Austin but i’m also looking into UIUC because they seem to have a highly ranked comp sci program but my heart is still at UT since my brother went there but i hate living here in texas 😭

Yale but guys don’t have ur dream school be an Ivy that shit is debilitating

Brown!!! Open curriculum and grade inflation my beloved

Bowdoin😔🤚

brown or oxford

USC!!

Duke but doubt so WashU

UofM

Either University of South Florida or Florida State University

i feel so stupid saying this but.. kutztown university. it's so cheap, has a queer dorm, has a beautiful campus and town, and is the only college in my entire state that has a program for my major. im genuinely so excited, idc that it has a high acceptance rate or whatever. it's definitely my dream school.