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College apps--DONE!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally. Many people have asked me why I didn't stop when I got into Yale, but in all honesty, I'm not sure it's where I want to go (but it's up there!). It did save me at least 4 college applications, though--Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Northwestern, and Wash U. All of those schools have their appeal, but Carnegie Mellon seemed too focused on a few strengths (and the deadline for music was six weeks ago), Wash U had a ridiculously long app for merit scholarships, and Georgetown and Northwestern had unique applications AND didn't give merit aid. Yet even without those four, I still applied to twelve schools. And I'm finally done!
For the time being, this is my hierarchy (but change is a given):
1. Yale
2. Swarthmore a quarter of a notch below Yale
3. Stanford a quarter of a notch below Swarthmore (it might be too similar to L.A.--but I'm holding off on this judgment unless I get in)
4. MIT a bit below Stanford
5. Chicago (I want to become more socially active, not just more focused on academics--and I don't want to follow in the footsteps of the rest of my extended family)
6. Rice (until/unless I visit, its location might be an unconquerable downside)
7. Duke (if I'm in the running for a scholarship, this could change significantly)
8. Hopkins (I'm less and less sure that I want to be a doctor, and I had a really strong reaction to Baltimore)
9. Berkeley (I might put this ahead of Hopkins--huge, California-dominated student body notwithstanding, it seems amazing)
10. UCSD
11. UCSB
12. UCSC (should I cancel my application?)
If only I were in college already. It doesn't matter too much where--I'm just sick of waking up at 7 o'clock and thinking about how far away June 24 is. At least I turn 18 on Friday. What should I do to celebrate? Maybe I can convince Votto to...ahem...postpone my reading quiz. Hmmm...