<p>So with around 6 days to go I cannot fathom which colleges I want to attend. Of about 10 or so choices I got into 6. I'm an American yet applied from Dubai, UAE in the IB Program</p>
<p>Of the colleges I got into they include..</p>
<p>Accepted:
Villanova University
U. Maryland College Park
U. California Santa Barbara
Boston University
UMass Amherst
Loyola Maryland</p>
<p>Waitlisted At:
Holy Cross
Wake Forest U.</p>
<p>I applied as a History Major but want to transfer to Business desperately. I always wanted to be in a city but Villanova and UCSB seem to be the best options so far..Villanova is supposed to be no fun and living in Penn seems to be boring as I live in an extremely lively city and before that I've lived in boston my whole life. that being said, sports are a big part of my life as well.</p>
<p>What was your logic when you picked these schools to apply to? Personally I can divine no rhyme or reason to your list, but I assume you had a preference/order to them at one point.?.</p>
<p>What do you want in your college experience?</p>
<p>Big or small? Loyola and Villanova are small, private, religiously affiliated schools, as are Holy Cross and Wake Forest (minus the religion). Every other school on your list has at least 18,500 undergraduates, that makes for a very differnt on-campus experience, positive and negative.</p>
<p>Do you want a religious affiliation? Two of your accepted and one wait-list are Roman Catholic institutions, I assume at one point the was an attractor.</p>
<p>You say you want to be near a large city? Loyola and BU are in urban setting; Villanova and Maryland are more suburban.</p>
<p>To me the biggest differentiator is school size, make a decision there and hopefully that will start you on your way.</p>
<p>my choices were just all over the map for little particular reason… religious affiliation is not that important at all. I’d rather a big school with a great sports program, like BC, but I was denied. In that respect it really has come down to losing my top top choice to 6 schools that seem to be medium choices of mine… I’d rather be in a large school/city setting yet would rather the excellent rep/academics/sports of a school like 'nova. what do you tthink?</p>
<p>If sports are truly a deciding factor, then Maryland and Wake Forest are the only schools on your list with big time athletics across the board, Villanova is basically a basketball school and BU is primarily soccer and hockey.</p>
<p>As for city life, only BU qualifies as urban with Villanova being a good 20-30 ride into Philadelphia, (n.b., Wake Forest is fairly “sleepy” compared to your other choices). That said students tend to over-estimate the amount of time they’ll spend off-campus.</p>
<p>My suggestion is to pick the school that fits best, (which I think you have already done), attend, do extremely well freshman year and then look into transferring if you’re unhappy. I think if you spend some time looking for schools with big time sports, located in or near cities, you won’t have too much trouble coming up with a more precise list than the one you have now.</p>
<p>wake forest is definitely not a good one if you’re looking for a city…everyone I know who went there said there’s not much to do on the town and they picked it for the academics.</p>
<p>Yeah, Maryland or Boston U. Maryland has it all. At B.U., you’ve got great college hockey, and you’re really close to the Red Sox… Bruins and Celtics not far away either. Or go to B.U. but pretend you went to BC for football and basketball purposes (as you know, it’s right down Comm. Ave.).</p>
<p>thank you… all this being said though, which would look best as a transfer student? i hear its easier to transfer from any UC school to UCLA or UCB than it is outside the UC system (yet as you said it seems to be hitting a dead end economically). Other than that, villanova seems to have the best name if I were to transfer to an Ivy or to even BC</p>
<p>something about being at BU and applying as a transfer to BC seems to like it will be very quickly overlooked</p>
<p>I went to UMass and I would not recommend it if you want big city. Amherst is a great college town. TOWN.</p>
<p>From your list, I’d go to BU if what you want is the city experience. From a prestige perspective, I’d pick Maryland? And I second what Vinceh said about specific sports. (Villanova for bball, BU for hockey…) Good luck!</p>