<p>Also, if not do you ever wonder what life would be like if you were able to attend your #1 choice?</p>
<p>For me, I always wanted to go to Boston U, but it was just way too expensive! I ended up choosing Penn State since I get in-state tuition and at first I was a little unhappy because of its location, but I've grown to love it. I'm actually glad I didn't go to a city school because I think it would have overwhelmed me and it would be definitely be more costly.</p>
<p>I have a friend at BU and she loves it, so sometimes I wish I could just experience a city school.</p>
<p>I was rejected by my first choice school for undergrad, but I’m currently there as a grad. Not getting in was possibly one of the best things to ever happen to me.</p>
<p>I went to a community college and then transferred to a 4-year that I thought I would love. Well, turned out I hated it so I transferred again. I applied to 4 schools that second time around. I didn’t get into the two I really wanted, and the other one I didn’t trust because they accepted me before I had even submitted my essay or half of my transcripts (and it was still about a month until the deadline), so I figured it probably wasn’t much of a school. The other one I had never really heard of before until my cousin started talking about wanting to go there. I got in and decided last minute, what the heck, it must be better than the shady offer I got at the other school. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t have fit in with the student culture here, I don’t like the city nearly as much as my undergrad’s, and my department here only offers about six classes while in undergrad I took over twice as many.</p>
<p>I used to dwell on this a <em>lot</em> – not so much anymore. I was deferred then rejected by my first choice (Pton) but accepted everywhere else.</p>
<p>It just seemed really, really odd to me that I’d get into so many selective schools but get canned at the one school I really wanted. Something just felt really strange about that. Needless to say, I always wondered what it would have been like to go to another uni and how things would have unfolded differently. I wasn’t totally satisfied with Penn and so I’d fantasize about how different life would have been at Harvard or Yale or Stanford, etc. </p>
<p>But over the past few years, I’ve come to realize that location doesn’t have as much impact on happiness as I expected it to. You can be bored/sad in sunny weather and ecstatically happy in the rain. Quality of education, past a certain threshold, is honestly pretty much the same.</p>
<p>Not getting into my first choice ultimately led me down the path I am on now, so I am very grateful for my rejection, haha.</p>
<p>Yes and no for me, it’s rather bittersweet. I had wanted to go to Boston College since 7th grade, got in but couldn’t afford it. I’m actually currently at a school that’s ranked ~10 spots higher than BC and is more prestigious. I’m here because they gave me a lot of financial aid (which I’m super grateful for, don’t get me wrong), but I’m still kind of heartbroken and bitter I couldn’t go to my dream school even after I got in. I do not like my current school at all. :(</p>
<p>I got in to my top choice, Harvey Mudd, but ended up turning it down because it cost too much and took on NJIT’s generous scholarship offer instead. I wouldn’t quite say I love it here, but I do like it a lot. Plus, in retrospect engineering’s not my cup of tea.</p>
<p>I wanted to go to U of M until I was about a sophomore/junior in high school. Then my thoughts shifted to MSU and Oberlin. I ended up not even applying to Oberlin because it was too far away (parents are in poor health and I didn’t want to go too far away from them just in case anything happened). MSU became my number 1 choice. I am there, I love it, and everything has turned out much better than even I could have expected. I am very grateful that I realized that I didn’t want to go to U of M before being pressured into accepting their offer of admission (very pro-Michigan family that didn’t quite approve of me going to MSU at first). I would not have been happy there.</p>
<p>Sort of. Although I was accepted by my original first choice, I ended up going to a different one for financial reasons. However, now that I have been here for a few months I love it and wouldn’t switch even if I could.</p>
<p>I was denied from my top 4 in high school, and went to my 5th choice. I transferred out after freshman year into my 8th-choice (least favorite of the ones I applied to in HS) and I couldn’t be happier there.</p>