<p>Well, I have been on CC browsing around and occasionally posting to get the opinions of others. I figured that parents could help me better than the students here because parents know how to deal with their kid's anxiety/ nervousness etc. </p>
<p>I have been admitted to the following schools:</p>
<p>Emory U.(chose to attend)
Notre Dame
Tufts
USC
Carnegie Mellon
Wake Forest
UCLA (Out of State)
Northwestern</p>
<p>I was admitted to those above schools... eventually I ended up choosing Emory because of many reasons: I loved it when I visited, people were friendly, location, weather, profs... everything seemed too good to be true! However, as you see from my list, there are some other great schools that I was lucky enough to be accepted to. I already paid my deposit for Emory but I am feeling very nervous. Did I make the right choice? Will the things I learn at Emory serve me well in the future? Did I give up anything by not going to those other schools? I'm not sure but maybe this anxiety is normal... but its kind of making me nervous. </p>
<p>I'm just not sure if it was the right choice... don't get me wrong... I love Emory... but maybe I would've loved those other places too! Can anyone give me some advice? Am I just fussing about nothing here? Is this feeling normal?</p>
<p>EDIT: I am interested in biology by the way. Thanks for the help in advance!</p>
<p>You were admitted to some exceptional universities because you were obviously an exceptional candidate!
You chose Emory.
You chose Emory because “I loved it when I visited, people were friendly, location, weather, profs… everything seemed too good to be true!”.
You are going to a wonderful university! Turn off the computer and don’t look back!! Enjoy your last days of high school. Prepare for your life to come at Emory!
Congratulations and good luck to you!! :)</p>
<p>Although most people assume that the more choices they have the happier they’ll be, in fact research has shown that this is not the case. Lots of choices, especially if they are all good ones, often make people unhappy because they keep second-guessing themselves.</p>
<p>You are somebody who has more than enough excellent choices, and any one of them could have been the “right” one. In fact, since there’s no wrong one, arguably there’s no right one either. Stop making yourself crazy and go enjoy Emory!</p>
<p>You were blessed with many great choices because you are obviously an excellent student. You say you loved Emory when you visited, folks were friendly, etc…sounds like you made a great decision! :)</p>
<p>One of my daughter’s piano classmates went to Emory last year as a freshman and LOVES it. I am sure you will too!</p>
<p>Eeks! You were admitted to a slew of fabulous schools, no wonder it was hard to make a choice. But May 1st came along and you decided to go to Emory. Congratulations! There was no bad option in your list. </p>
<p>I agree with the notion that there isn’t really a “best” choice. We all want “the best”, but that means something different for everyone. It’s who you room with, who you meet, the courses you take, the professors you study with, the activities you participate in, etc., etc., etc. So long as Emory has those key ingredients, which of course it does, then it’s really up to you.</p>
<p>The important aspect makes the most difference: feeling as if you belong. And you do: “I loved it when I visited, people were friendly, location, weather, profs… everything seemed too good to be true!” The problem isn’t Emory, it’s that you had so many other great schools to choose from. But, you’ll be fine. Wear their T-shirt, join their Facebook, and celebrate that you’ll be going to the place that you love!</p>
<p>Having been a bridesmaid more than once, I can tell you that it is not unusual for the bride to have a fit of nerves at the very last moment – and these were smart, mature brides marrying fine, remarkable men. </p>
<p>Once you commit to one choice you no longer are “in the hunt”. After a couple of intense years working hard to have some options, you are now about to be out of options. </p>
<p>Homebuyers do the very same thing. They will shop like mad, find the perfect house and then have a case of “buyer’s remorse”. Suddenly that second bathroom looks like a nightmare and that curb appeal looks so yesterday. </p>
<p>Brides come with bridesmaids and mothers (who hold their hand, hand over a tissue and wave the catering bill in their face) to help the dear girl find her spine. A few minutes later she is either radiant and gliding down the aisle or she’s ripping off her dress and escaping on a Harley. </p>
<p>Homebuyers usually have an “ernest money” deposit that they will forfeit for having cold feet. They can get out of the contract, but it will cost them. </p>
<p>College students don’t have these back out options or support staff. Go to Emory. Be aware that no college is perfect (neither is a groom or a house) but this choice has appeal for you. Give it the benefit of your whole heart. It’s not fair to make a choice and then withhold your loyalty. </p>
<p>And, in October, feel really, really guilty that your love was so fickle in May. </p>
<p>If, in October, you feel you have made a huge mistake, then you’ll have to suss out your options. </p>
<p>I hope you will find your spine and where ever it was that you parked your generous heart and get thyself to Emory.</p>
<p>You’re preparing to enter an incredibly exciting phase of your life in a place you love. You had a whole bunch of wonderful choices. There was no “the right choice.” There were many right choices, but you could only choose one. You followed your instincts and chose the one that felt most right to you. Whether or not it was the most right, it is right.</p>
<p>Don’t second-guess yourself now that your choice is made. It may be human nature, but it’s counter-productive; anxiously wondering “if I’d chosen differently, could I be a little more happy than I am now?” will only detract from your happiness and, in your weakest moments, give you an excuse to avoid being responsible for that happiness.</p>
<p>It’s natural to wonder what the road not taken would have been. You had terrific choices, but it sounds like you made a good choice for you. It’s likely you’ll be happy there, and it’s likely you would have been happy at your other choices too. I agree you should enjoy what you have and don’t look back.</p>
<p>But I will tell you a funny story about a friend of mine from college. She chose Swarthmore for good reasons, but then promptly started wishing she’d chosen Harvard instead. So she hated her freshman year because Swarthmore was too small and too intimate. She transferred to Harvard and spent that year realizing that Harvard was too big and impersonal and that she far preferred Swarthmore. She transferred right back. Sometimes (often) our original instinct really is correct. Our gut often knows better than our head. I think your gut says Emory - so listen to it.</p>
<p>I had the same feeling of panic when I sent in my deposit a few days ago - “what if I picked the wrong school? What if I would have been happier somewhere else? What if I hate it? THEN WHAT??” </p>
<p>However, I think it took about a day for that to go away, and for it to sink in that I’m going to a school that I loved when I visited. If you chose Emory, and you loved it when you visited, then don’t look back! Immerse yourself in Emory literature and apparel and let yourself get excited!!</p>
<p>And most importantly, don’t look back. You’ve made a great choice, and you’re going to have a fantastic time!</p>
<p>You had a number of great options --options so good – that you couldn’t make a mistake in picking one unless by picking it, you’d put yourself into extreme debt.</p>
<p>On thinking this over, because I wondered how my son would react in this situation, I would add the following to my previous post:</p>
<p>As opposed to staying off the internet, which is VERY hard to do, try to find forums for ‘Emory 2014’ and start connecting with your new classmates. Their excitement and positive feelings may help you feel more at ease and take you away from the internet sites that are still talking about the virtues of the universities you declined. I’m sure there are groups on facebook, etc. Google should help you. If this doesn’t help, call admissions and they may have information on one or more group.</p>
<p>I know what an internet junkie I am so I though this may be a more reasonable answer :)</p>
<p>Good luck!! You are going to have an awesome time. Congratulations! :)</p>
<p>Nearly every college student second guesses his/her choice at some point. Sometimes it is after the decision to attend; sometimes it is after they actually get on campus. There is a word for this: NORMAL. You have been through an agonizing decision process because you were accepted into a lot of great schools.<br>
Stop looking backwards. Start looking forward. My daughter graduated from Northwestern. She went through the “wonder if I made the right choice?” during freshman year on campus. But she did.
My son is at Emory (finishing his soph yr) and LOVES it. It is a great school. You mentioned a number of reasons to attend and from my experience watching my son, they are all correct reasons. The weather is good, the facilities are amazing (BTW, nearly every freshman will end up in a dorm that is less than 3 years old–Don’t even try to compare that to Northwestern’s dorms),the access to professors is excellent (maybe a bit better that Northwestern although access at NU was pretty good) and it has wonderful opportunities for bioresearch (very good science departments, the CDC is next door and the Med School is on campus). </p>
<p>Ultimately, it will come down to your own personal experiences: Who you meet, how you adapt, time manage, etc. But you will have a remarkable opportunity to have a sensational undergraduate experience. My son has no regrets. For his experience, I have no regrets for him either. </p>
<p>Good luck. And Congratulations!!!
Welcome to the Emory Community!!!</p>
<p>Here’s something it took me a long time to figure out and I hope you’ll be able to embrace it at a far younger age; regret is a choice. </p>
<p>You can choose to take a limited amount of time to say goodbye to those other futures, then embrace your choice and never look back. Or you can torture yourself with “what if.” Some people are born with the ability to do the former but some of us have to learn it as a life skill.</p>
<p>It’s normal to have periods of doubt, but dont’ get caught up in them. Look forward to your years at Emory!</p>
