Visa Officer wants to know if you are really serious

about your education. If you applied to 4 and were accepted

in 1 and got 3 rejects, you should put it this way: I

applied to 4, got 1 admit, 2 awaited and 1 reject. Visa

Officer will have record of the Universities accepted your

application and not of your rejections. You should say that

the chosen university was your first choice.

I applied to four other universities and got calls from two

of them. But I preferred to choose XYZ because of the

research being carried out in the field of XXX (mention the

one related to your course) that interests me the most.