Excitement!

I'm pretty sure that I figured out yesterday which schools I'll be applying to this fall. This is pretty major for me, because up until yesterday I had mostly buried my head around a pillow and thrashed about when I thought about deciding which colleges to apply to (there are so many of them! There are colleges you've never heard of in places you've never heard of! Like Iowa! Any decision you make is ultimately fairly arbitrary!).

Anyway, the list. Organized in terms of how absurd their acceptance rate is.

1. Brown (ha.)
2. Amherst (ditto)
3. Northwestern (Only school I could find with Community Organization, Education, Women's Studies majors and double major and teacher certification options without being in the middle of a cornfield.)
4. Macalester (Because going to college three miles away from my house now would be awesome, right? But Mac is a top liberal arts college, according to people who know these things, like the obsessive forces behind College Confidential.)
5. Sarah Lawrence (Such a tight-sounding school. I can't even say anything cynical and sarcastic here. Open curriculum, writing-focused school, small class sizes, etc. No, hold on, I do have bad things to say. The 70/30 female-male breakdown is pretty daunting. And they're featured on Gawker's list of Most Annoying Liberal Arts Colleges, ha.)
6. Syracuse University (Focus on internships/experiential learning, decently sized city.)
7. U of M-Twin Cities (Because I'm pretty damn sure I'll get in.)

So, there it is. The top seven that beat out the thousands of others for reasons both legitimate and completely absurd.

Time to start applying.