<p>Well, im at the end of the entire application process. Got rejected from the few reaches i applied to, all of the few matches i applied to, into all my safeties, and got accepted into one of my top choices.</p>
<p>But now im sitting here looking at everyone else getting to pick where they want to go to college, and I'm just feeling kind of dejected. I'm beating myself up over not having applied to tufts, princeton, duke, and uofm (which I even wrote the essays for!). I dont know why in the world I didnt do it, but i was stupid at the time and spent most of my application money on schools my mom made me apply to (namely a lot of UC safeties), and felt bad about paying more.</p>
<p>So even though im supposed to be really happy with my college, I feel cornered into it now. I'm one who likes having a lot of freedom, and I'm looking at all my friends with honestly a bit of jealousy that they have similar options to pick from. I think its especially because the school I'm going to isnt as prestigious (BS/MD program), so a lot of my friends say "you're going THERE? I thought you would've done better!", and I hate to say it but it would be nice if I had an ivy acceptance letter to back up that choice. </p>
<p>I know I should be really really REALLY grateful for what I have, because the school was a reach after all, but i feel like im spending so much time in regret.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, definitely. Wellesley, Williams, Swarthmore, Princeton, etc… not that I had a good/any shot at all at getting in, but I could have at least tried. I applied to too many target/safety schools…</p>
<p>Yea, I regret applying to USC cause the only way I would study at Cali is if I was accepted to Berkeley and maybe take out Babson College, it’s meh aside from it’s awesome entrepreneurship and I heard taking undergrad business is a waste. At our school, we’re only allowed to apply to 10 schools (UC counts as 1 school) btw. I probably would have replaced those two with either Tufts, Swarthmore, Amherst or Bowdoin (as high targets/low reaches) depending on what my counselor recommended. However, no regrets =) I’m happy with where I ended up.</p>
<p>I wish I had applied to Brown and Tufts. And I would’ve probably taken out Skidmore and Macalester. But I got into Vassar which (along with Dartmouth which waitlisted me) was my top choice. And I’m way excited about the prospect of attending there in the fall.</p>
<p>^^ Dude, same here! Skidmore is in NY, and Macalester is too far away for my parents to ever allow me to go… Should have spent energy on other apps (although they are good schools)</p>
<p>I wish I’d applied to Emory, Carleton, USC and Washington & Lee because looking at their Naviance profiles tells me that their admission standards for students from my school are quite low (I suspect they’re just not used to receiving applications from my country, or have an unusual affinity for my school).</p>
<p>Not really. I applied to too many schools. I feel like I just applied to a bunch of reaches because I wanted reaches, when most of the schools that fit me well were low matches or even safeties.</p>
<p>I should have done more Cali schools, like USC or UCSD. Now, I’m stuck going out of state, where I’m not even sure if I’ll like it there. I also wished I applied to more reaches, like UChicago and Cornell, like my dad asked, because honestly, even though I got accepted into all my colleges, I feel like I didn’t challenge myself and see where I really stand.</p>
<p>I only applied to four schools in all. Honestly, I would have loved to apply to all of the Ivies or to Amherst or other LACs like it. But I got into my top choice which is Pomona College. So I guess it worked out in the end.</p>
<p>However…now I can help but wonder what if I applied to Harvard or to MIT. Would Pomona still be my top choice? (most likely )</p>
<p>Yes, my big regret: Georgetown. I’m a PolySci major but just didn’t know anything about colleges when I started applying. I think I would have had a fairly good shot there as well :(</p>
<p>I would’ve applied to Carnegie Mellon. I almost finished the supplement last minute but decided to go to a New’s Years party instead. It wasn’t one of my top choices, but in retrospect it would’ve been nice. Maybe Northwestern as well.</p>
Should have spent energy on other apps (although they are good schools)</p>
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