<p>I might have given UNC a try...but I couldn't be happier there than I'll be at William and Mary.</p>
<p>I debated for a while applying to Vanderbilt, but in the end I decided that in my heart I knew I had already made my decision to go somewhere else. I kind of wish I would have applied just to see if I got in.</p>
<p>I regret not applying to Bowdoin, Notre Dame, UMichigan Ann Arbor, Wellesley on time (Sent my app 11 days late), Hamilton, and the Naval Academy.<br>
So yeah, i guess i have a lot of regrets</p>
<p>Not really. I applied to 3 safeties, 4 matches, and 3 reaches. I was rejected by 2 of my reaches (UNC Chapel Hill EA, Cornell) and waitlisted by WUSTL. I really didn't want to go to Cornell AT ALL (I thought I did when I applied...but I soon dropped it), and only cared about WUSTL if I got good fin aid (but I was waitlisted, so I didn't care). I was hurt by UNC because I really wanted to get in because I loved it AND I could afford it.</p>
<p>But then I got into my #1 choice (NYU) which I considered a match....and that's where I'm going! So I have NO regrets.</p>
<p>Not at all. I found schools that I thought were good fits for me. I didn't want to be in the northeast, and I definitely didn't like the ultra-competitive atmospheres at MIT and Caltech, so I applied to some great out-of-state publics (UIUC, OSU, Purdue, GaTech) with fantastic engineering programs and one great reach- my dream school Stanford. Got in everywhere, and I'm estatic about Stanford, so everything worked out. I didn't really want to apply anywhere else.</p>
<p>hamilton, colgate, wisconsin, dickenson</p>
<p>Wow, congrats on Standford! That's fantastic... that's why you should always apply to a reach school -- you never know.</p>
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Wow, congrats on Standford! That's fantastic... that's why you should always apply to a reach school -- you never know.
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Thanks! Yes, you should always apply... you never know! I certainly didn't think I'd get in.</p>
<p>I maybe regret not applying to Middlebury or applying to Dartmouth RD instead of ED.</p>
<p>I would now drop my "safety schools" as well as northwestern, which i only applied to since it's close to home and pressure from the parentals, as well as boston university, in their place i probably would have added cornell, columbia, princeton, upenn, and pomona (i was sorta anti-ivy end of my jr year, didn't like the whole prestige factor and supposed name recognition, which i have now realized is a benefit) no worries though, I'm going to Duke</p>
<p>I thought about applying to Embry-Riddle and Caltech. I did apply to UIUC and IIT (not ITT) and was accepted. In the end I got my "reach" school...USAFA, here I come!</p>
<p>I am kind of curious what Caltech would have said, but I am perfectly happy with the end results.</p>
<p>Cal-Tech, definitely, to make the decision process a bit more interesting, I guess.</p>
<p>I definitely applied to too many safeties, I think I applied to 5? and then Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, JHU, and MIT. I got into all except Dartmouth (WL) and Duke (flat out rejected---harsh! but I don't want to get raped, so it's all good! ;) jk!) Part of me wishes that I had stepped out of my shell and applied somewhere on the west coast like stanford or something. But I'm going to happy in Boston, and even if i HAD gotten into Stanford, I don't think I would have gone. So no huge regrets! :)</p>
<p>No major regrets, but some of the tips on here would really have been helpful to me when i was going through the college admissions process</p>
<p>I would say regret is too strong of a word, but I do wish I hadn't ruled out applying to schools that were west coast simply because of geographic factor. I think I would have really liked UCLA.</p>
<p>regrets?
Maybe not applying to princeton, penn, williams, northwestern. But Columbia works out fine for me so doesn't matter.</p>
<p>On one level, I regret not applying to Yale EA (higher admit rate than RD round, where I was outright rejected), but on another, I know that even if I'd gotten in, I would've loved the school even more and then it would've been incredibly painful for me to not eventually go there even though I know I could've never gone there....or I could've gone there and made one of the biggest, most painful mistakes of my life...</p>
<p>I'm happy with the way things turned out though (go Stanford!), and all my whining/regrets are just my ego talking about it needing a boost.</p>