<p>Hello. I was just curious if any college students can honestly say that they hate being at their safety (or even their match). If so, which school are you attending and which did you not get into?</p>
<p>it's not really that i didn't get into a school i wanted to go to, but that i made a mistake in choosing the one i did go to. i go to CUNY john jay college of criminal justice, and it's all commuters, very easy to get into-- has a good reputation for criminal justice and the graduate programs, but undergraduates are mostly nyc kids of below-average intelligence. my dream school would be stanford, but frankly, i didn't do well enough in high school to have gotten in. i'm applying to transfer to santa clara university.</p>
<p>SCU is a bit of a commuter school too, as Bay Area students who live in the dorms will disappear on weekends. But SCU is in the heart of Silicon Valley, near enough to the beach, Stanford and San Francisco, that you will find plenty of ways to be entertained on weekends. Just find a roommate, dorm mates or (off-campus) housemates with a car, and you'll be ok at SCU.</p>
<p>hmm.. I'm not really miserable I just always wonder what it would have been like on the other side of the road. I was waitlisted at a bunch of schools and I turned down UMD CP to go to Suny Binghamton... even though everyone on these forums told me UMD CP was the better school... I just think it was a better fit for me and I like my choice for the most part.... but I always wonder what it might be like had i changed my decision.</p>
<p>Nope, not miserable at all. I'm even pretty estatic to be at U of I in general. It doesn't feel like my safety at all. It feels like I was meant ot be here all along.</p>
<p>i had these recurrent dreams of this building wen i was really small.
i didnt wanna go to UCI for some reaon. but in the end i ended up going there n found out UCi looks exactly like wat i saw in my dreams years ago... so i guess i'm meant to go to UCI</p>
<p>Not really miserable, but not exactly happy with it, either. To be fair, I was accepted to a school other than my safety, but I had to choose my safety for a variety of financial reasons.</p>
<p>Now I'm trying to transfer. I'm at UCSC, and my top choices are Stanford and Berkeley (hahahahaha) and UChicago (which I'm currently waiting on a decision for). This just isn't my kind of environment socially and academically (though the surrounding area is gorgeous in terms of flora and fauna!).</p>
<p>yeah, i know a few people at ucsc who aren't really happy there... they "settled" for it because it's nearby and not the worst uc, but they've ended up academically and socially unfulfilled (ie it's full of hippies who just needed to go to college somewhere and pretty easily got into santa cruz).</p>
<p>That's about the gist of it.</p>
<p>Shew...i was MISERABLE at Va. Tech...it just didn't click with me!...but i transferred out so it's all good!</p>
<p>where did u transer to?</p>
<p>I only got in Uva, didnt get in wharton, mit, or harvard</p>
<p>UVa :)</p>
<p>i transferred in to the College though...not McIntire....</p>
<p>gsp<em>silicon</em>valley, what beach are you talking about, it's not that close. Santa Cruz takes at least 1 hour and some of the peninsula beach/half moon bay for example is way too cold.</p>
<p>santa cruz is 45 mins- 1 hour away from scu and it's just as nice as the half moon bay beaches in the summer-- the rest of the year they're all pretty cold.</p>
<p>nah...:</p>
<p>do u want to get in mcIntire? what's ur major? what grade are u in>?</p>
<p>i'm not a comm major......i'm a sophmore in the fall 05 semester...my major at this point is chemistry, but i'm leaning towards changing it to psych. </p>
<p>i got accepted as a first year transfer from Va. Tech</p>
<p>anyone unhappy with their ** first ** choice college?? many people have regretted picking Harvard over other schools (studentreview.com).. no idea how accurate that is.</p>