<p>I wish I could swap out like one or two schools from my list for better ones or ones that I know I for sure have a chance at. I'm honestly more excited for the arrival of Taco Bell's breakfast menu on the 27th than I am for a response from a certain school.
Which schools do you (or did you) wish you applied to?</p>
<p>That’s kind of a normal feeling. After I got into a reach, I didn’t really care about decisions from my safeties. </p>
<p>I applied to 16 schools, and I wish that I had applied to Virginia, Wake Forest, and Rice instead of Franklin&Marshall and Rhodes.</p>
<p>I applied to Hampton U in a nervous frenzy thinking I wouldn’t get accepted to any of the schools I applied to. But I wish I would have thought through it more.</p>
<p>I applied to several out-of-state schools I can’t afford because I was afraid I wouldn’t get in anywhere…I’d skip that if I had it to do over again. </p>
<p>I got into a bunch of safeties that I can’t even attend because of financial reasons – so I guess they weren’t even safeties. I applied to 19 schools - big mistake; if I could do it over again, I’d just apply to UMass, Harvard, and Simmons – I’m going to get rejected from ~4 targets and a reach in the next few days so… It’s really demoralizing. </p>
<p>I tried to apply to a bunch of safeties to have financial aid options, but they ended up not working financially. If I could redo it all, I would just apply to the UCs. </p>
<p>Four of mine were safeties (and I got rejected from one of those), three matches and four were reaches. I’m expecting at least three or four more rejections. I’m not too worried about the blow to my ego but just annoyed about wasting a few spots.
If I knew what I knew now, I’d go back and put almost all of my energy into Barnard, Wellesley and a few more LACs near big cities (my ideal area).
And I’d make sure my safeties had much better financial aid possibilities; that’s almost everyone’s regret.</p>
<p>My idea was that I’d apply to safeties and they’d just toss full scholarships at my feet… they didn’t. Except UMass; which I was going to apply to regardless… Honestly - if my March self could go back and tell my September self everything that’s been happening, I would’ve literally only focused on UMass and Simmons and applied to Harvard for the hell of it. My targets and reaches are irrelevant because even if I do get admitted, they’re financially impossible. </p>
<p>I’d tell my September self to hop on to some damn interviews. I’ve only had two.</p>
<p>I only had one… and it was for Harvard; but yeah, I’d arrange interviews for the schools that I’m on the fence in terms of admission, I suppose. Then there’s the prospect of grad school… lovely. </p>
<p>I’m sure I would’ve scheduled more but a year ago I thought I’d be sitting pretty with an NYU acceptance at this point so I guess I wasn’t really prepared. I made so many last minute decisions.
Grad school may or may not happen. We’ll see how I feel in four/five years. But at least we’ll be veterans when it comes to applying!</p>
<p>Surprisingly, now that I’ve been accepted to a safety that I’m in love with, I’ve almost completely disregarded the reach schools that I wasn’t as enthused about. I mean, UPenn or Dartmouth would be amazing, but I really don’t care either way what the decisions are.</p>
<p>I wish I applied to UT at Austin, to be honest. Not for any particular reason - I just love Austin. :)</p>
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<p>This ^^^^ (Except change the schools to UMD, Hopkins, and Harvard)</p>
<p>And everything else @preamble1776 said on this thread. </p>