I applied to like fourteen schools. I was always expected to go to Harvard - my dad's entire family went there. I got waitlisted and we could have worked family connections to get me in there, but I just didn't want to go to Harvard - I was absolutely miserable when I went on the overnight and stuff!
I also seriously considered going to Tufts after I got in - but i would have gone with all these people from my HS class.
If I was applying again I would apply to more southern schools - Vanderbilt, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, Emory, and RIce probably. Most everywhere I applied to was in New England - except Northwestern, where I wound up, and Tulane, which I got a scholarship to but didn't want to go to.
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