<p>What I'm saying is that once you've got it narrowed down to a few excellent schools that generally meet your basic criteria, making that final choice is more like picking a spouse than picking an auto insurance company. (Actually, you can change spouses if you're not right for each other; once you graduate, that's your alma mater forever.) </p>
<p>All of this nitpicking over which one is 2 points higher in its peer assesment score, and which one is cited by the Hoboken Tribune as having a slighly better alumni giving % is like picking Mary over Susan as a wife because Mary is a 34C and Susan is a 34B. Not EVERYTHING is quantifiable. Once you've got it narrowed down like this Nebraska guy has, go with the one that will inspire you when you're richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, when you're hung over and don't want to get up for that 9 a.m. lecture, when you just can't get your mind around Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and want to drop out and become a ski bum. In other words, no college ever motivated anyone to spend that extra hour in the library just because U.S. News ranked it #12 nationally in faculty resources.</p>
<p>But if you do choose USC, you might get to meet Hillary Duff, which would be super cool. (Just trying to break the tension a little bit here.)</p>
<p>I meant just walking around LA. If she were to go to college, I'm sure she could go anywhere she wanted. In which case she would, of course, go to BC.</p>
<p>Haha yeh tourguide ... i hear its pretty crazy in the U.S in that famous people really can go anywhere. Although i doubt Harvard would accept just 'any' famous person. There must be some criteria out there, reality T.V stars are a no no or something like that. In Australia there was a huge fuss when one of our uni's wanted to take Australias best swimmer for his swimming (he didnt end up going). </p>
<p>Good luck xcjimmy! It sounds like you have some exciting choices to make :)</p>
<p>Jimmy- do you like preps? do you want to go to a school that looks like you just walked into a JCrew commercial? If you say yes, then go to BC. </p>
<p>it is a rich, country-clubbing, snob-filled, cliquey college.</p>
<p>Sid19, the Ivies apparently LOVE the celebs (yeah, reality show folk probably don't qualify). Jodie Foster and Jennifer (Flashdance) Beals at Yale, Brooke Shields at Princeton, Mira Sorvino at Harvard (not sure if she was famous before she went there, but her father was). I was surprised when the Olsen twins went to NYU instead of Columbia.
I'm sure I'm missing a lot of more recent ones. </p>
<p>Besides the show biz folks, I think the Ivies also have tons of offspring of prominent foreign & domestic politicians, diplomats, & businessmen, who apparently had time to cram for the SATs AND lounge about the beaches of Ibiza. Maybe maintaining a year-round tan is considered an EC in some circles. I've never heard of a public outcry here over the famous having an admissions advantage. I think we just accept the concept of them being held to a different standard. I mean Tommy Lee even got in Nebraska recently, didn't he?</p>