<p>Yeah, P-ton is my dream school but the reality is that I think I would be just as happy at a state school paying half the tuition at princeton or....I could get paid to go to college if I go to UF!!! Go to state school, have a good GPA and good test scores and go Ivy league for Grad School.</p>
<p>The biggest advantage of all GA schools is that if you have a 3.0 GPA they pay for everything WITH a book stipend.</p>
<p>Maybe I'm a little biased, being from Michigan, but isn't U of M substantially better than UF or Georgia? Isn't Michigan ranked 25 and the other two are in the 50s?</p>
<p>Yeah Michigan has the best academics...
but Georgia has the best campus...
but I could go to Florida for free....</p>
<p>I like beer and I like football, so all three are cool</p>
<p>Do you have to have been a GA resident to recieve the hope scholarship after a year at college?</p>
<p>No clue, but I have another question which relates more to the subject of this forum.</p>
<p>Does anybody know the percentage of students who get deferred that end up getting in in Regular Decision. Can't be high, but I can always hope.</p>
<p>haha oh michigan football...when i go to those games, i almost convince myself i should go there. ann arbor isn't a bad campus though...just interesting. i had an uncle at princeton and an uncle at u of m so they both want their niece to follow in their footsteps.</p>
<p>yes if you need a back up...georgia is very blah... i go to a private school in atlanta and since we're, you know, "seniors" we go up to athens for the weekend to act cool and party with the fine students to be found there... and quite frankly it feels like highschool all over again cause EVERYONE in the frat houses and a few very atlanta bars are from prep schools in the ATL...and they are not that exciting. so go to michigan, be in their awesome business school, and one day rule the world.</p>
<p>I think you just have to be a GA resident a year, I don't think that changed when they updated the scholarship.</p>
<p>Yeah Michigan is awesome, My dad went there and has taken me to a few games, how is the weather up there this time of year?</p>
<p>You see, I'm from florida and haven't worn shoes to school in four years.
Adjusting to goose-down parkas might be hard, but you take the good with the bad</p>
<p>Ann Arbor, not a bad place to spend 4 years...just have to dot the i's and cross the t's on my app.</p>
<p>heres a question i've been pondering....i think being deferred from princeton doesnt' bode well for the spring...so, i have connections at georgetown and uva..like get in connnections, but if i use either one, i have to go there, but i LOOVVEE princeton...but i also dont want to end up at a mediocre school... what do i do? use the connections or just hope for the best everywhere...the concern is that if i promise to go to gtown and then by some miracle get into pton i'll be screwed....ok thoughts?</p>
<p>also, i just realized this has nothing to do with the 'thread' taht was talking about ga, mich, and fl....please forgive me</p>
<p>Don't give up hope entirely. Just because you got deferred doesn't mean you won't get in! They accept more deferrals than regular applicants.</p>
<p>Your question is fine, we were talking about important "life decisions"</p>
<p>Georgetown and UVA are both awesome, especially Georgetown if you love politics. I have three friends going to UVA and they are ecstatic to be going there. I would say that if you have a hope of getting into princeton, you should be fine getting into UVA regular and will have that as a solid backup no matter what happens in April. As for Georgetown, I have no clue about there admissions standards. UVA is a great school with history to match princeton, so apply regular there and be happy to get out of your freaking house for the next 4 years!</p>
<p>CAN I GET AN AMEN FOR NOT HAVING TO DEAL WITH PARENTS NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO?</p>
<p>Is that true bout them accepting more deferrals than regulars?
Anyone go tthe numbers on wether I should be holding my breath for gettin in in Spring?</p>
<p>AMEN to surfandturf, mine are great and support me whenever needed, but sometimes it's a bit "too much" support. (yes mom, i know that deferrals have higher admit rates than regular, but it's nice to know i'm a "perfect child" :))
Another digression: Now that we've all been deferred, what can be done to make ourselves more attractive in the spring to the Princeton adcoms, which will surely be ruthless given the large number of applicants?</p>
<p>surfandturf: haha well right now in my part of MI it's around 20 degrees and there's tons of snow...it would definitely be a switch</p>
<p>i'm applying to georgetown RD, but they're really confusing me right now with who they deferred EA from my school...it just emphasizes my belief that college admissions is a crapshoot</p>
<p>now on to parents...i'm the oldest, and their only daughter, so basically enough said. it's the worst.</p>
<p>my guidance counselor made it absolutely clear that she wouldn't take any more app stuff before christmas break, so before i got the decision from pton i gave her stuff for harvard, yale, nyu, upenn, and duke. now that i'm deferred my Controlling Asian Mother has just now paid attention to my list of schools, so she's going vicious trying to get me to add columbia, brown, or cornell. so i have to beg my guidance counselor lest she calls 'the state office' about her.</p>