The Top 12 Are:

This is my official list of schools that I am considering. They are listed by location--the farthest being in Upstate NY, down to the southern-most school ending in DC.

NY State:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
NYC:
New York University/NYU, New York, NY
Columbia University, New York, NY
NJ:
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
DE:
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
PA:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania State, University Park, PA
Lincoln University, Oxford, PA
MD:
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
DC:
George Washington University, Washington, DC

**(Cornell University & Lincoln University are no longer a part of this list. However, the University of Chicago has been added in lieu of these.)**