Ben Berg rattles off the schools he has applied to in rapid-fire succession.
There are East Coast liberal arts schools Vassar, Swarthmore and Bowdoin. There are bigger Eastern schools — Boston University, American, Cornell and George Washington. The Midwest is represented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carleton and the University of Chicago. The University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz, make up the West Coast options for the 17-year-old Edina High School senior.