<p>Everytime I try to decide where to go next year I start to feel physically nauseous, like I'm going to puke. I know I am perfectly capable of making this decision and I have made other HUGE decisions so far in life, but this just gets to me. I think part of the problem is that the schools I am deciding between are just SO different and I can see my life running off in two completely opposite directions.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any good advice to help make this easier?
I know I'm supposed to go with my gut reaction, but I don't have one. I also know I will be happy wherever, but I'm still scared to death.</p>
<p>While I don't feel physically ill, this decision is huge and is probably the biggest decision I have made thus far in my life as it will drastically affect the next 4-5 years of my life and also the rest of it after that. I'm not sure how I can come to a final decision without second guessing myself constantly.</p>
<p>bethyy: Have you visited both the schools you are considering again? When it comes down to schools that are so different, another visit may clarify...you are looking now with different eyes than an applicant......Go with your gut....</p>
<p>In the end, you'd probably be happy with most of the schools you applied to. Look online, ask advice, and visit the 3 or 4 schools that you liked the most in person. Make an educated decision, and there is a slim chance that you will pick wrong.</p>
<p>My public speaking teacher gave me a failsafe solution. At night on April 30th 19xx, she had acceptances from two colleges (I can't recall which). She had no idea where she wanted to go.</p>
<p>Her brother took her envelopes from her and told her to "pick a hand".</p>
<p>She then proceeded to have the "best four years of [her] life".</p>
<p>So, if all else fails, put your favorites in a hat and pick one out...</p>
<p>I feel like I've already done everything to help me decide. I made a huge pros and cons list and everything.
My gut reaction changes from day to day and I have visited one school 5+ times and practically grown up on the other's campus.
When I visited one of the schools, I really did just have a feeling that it was right, but it is also going to cost my parents 200,000+ and I hate giving up the other school.</p>
<p>Basically I want to go to both schools. I know other people have worse problems, but I don't know why this is practically killing me inside. Ever since the 2nd acceptance letter I have not stopped thinking and thinking about this. I'm a pathetic mess!!</p>
<p>Wow, I thought I was the only crazy person out there who gets literally nauseous thinking about making the big decision! Um, last night I think I actually made myself ill . I couldn't go to sleep because I kept thinking about college and then I finally got sick. I'm not sure there's any other way to explain my out- of the- blue- middle- of- the- night illness. So there ya go, you're not the only one, bethyy !</p>
<p>I don't know if this helps but I'm basically driving myself insane trying to decide between 3 schools. Apparently my decision changes on a daily basis and I can't even do schoolwork cause I'm always thinking about it ._.</p>
<p>hopefully and unshunreshun- I'm so glad you guys understand where I'm coming from! All my friends have already committed to schools and don't get it. But I don't think I can go a couple more weeks like this and losing sleep!</p>
<p>cgarrett- I think they both might be good matches in different ways. One is definitely a slightly better match, but its a lot a lot more expensive and I think the guilt for making my parents pay that is part of the nauseous feeling.</p>
<p>Bethyy, I feel EXACTLY the same way. This decision is making me so anxious, nervous, and sick. My schools are completely different so it should be easy to choose, but there's no "type" of school I like more than the other. I didn't have any gut reactions when I visited, and I have pretty little to go on right now.
Here's what I'd suggest: look at the Facebook pages of the Class of 2012 for whichever schools you're deciding between. I mean, it won't tell you that much, but on one of the pages I'm sort of like, "Yeah, yeah, I like these guys," but the other school just feels like a community. If a sense of community is important to you (or you're concerned about social aspects of the school), Facebook might be able to help you out.
Good luck!</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with looking at the Facebook pages. The atmosphere I got from Facebook was similar to the atmosphere I got with all the other prospective students- if you like one group better than the other, that could help.</p>
<p>jess and brillar: My d just made her decision based exactly on the Facebook argument...One school she just felt completely comfortable with the prospective students, the other, she said that she couldn't even have a conversation with most of them......Never knew that Facebook could provide such a clear understanding, but I'm all for it, given that it really helped her make a very difficult decision between two VERY different choices....</p>
<p>I like the Facebook idea. I'm going to suggest it to my daughter, who is going through the same thing. Also I read around here somewhere: Imagine that you have two t-shirts, one from each college. Imagine yourself wearing one, then the other. Which one feels better, makes you happier?</p>