<p>I know there isn't much value in wallowing the past and overlooking old choices, but let's say that you were able to choose what college you could go to all over again. </p>
<p>Would you pick the school you are going to now? Or, would it be a different institution?</p>
<p>Sometimes I regret turning down Stanford, but if I had to choose over again, I’d still pick Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Knowing what I now know about it, I would absolutely choose this school again. I love it!</p>
<p>well I didn’t have much choice in the first place so not really… i like my school but i lucked into a horrible situation</p>
<p>no. </p>
<p>I would have gone to school in chicago instead of where i am now.</p>
<p>Absolutely. I am more convinced as I go along that Michigan State was better for me than U of M.</p>
<p>ABSOLUTELY NOT. Actually, if i could i would apply to a whole new set of schools. Ive learn alot since applying to schools.</p>
<p>Before yesterday I would have said “no, I would never choose another school over the school I’m currently attending”, but I visited this school that I’m transferring to and:
(1) I looooooved it<br>
(2) I realized that I would have gotten 8,000 dollars in merit money if I attended following high school, meaning I would have only have to pay 15,000/yr for tuition (I would have commuted) attending a private school rather than paying 23,000 a year attending a freakin’ state school. </p>
<p>Moral of the story is: sometimes private schools are cheaper than state schools.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, I do love that I went to Rutgers because I got to experience the whole athletic and academic atmosphere, but now I must move on.</p>
<p>Eh, I probably would. Either that or Virginia Tech, I’d say.</p>
<p>If I could have my pick of ANY school, even ones I didn’t apply to (and could never have gotten in to) I probably would have gone to UCLA or MIT, or maybe Michigan.</p>
<p>I attend The University of Iowa and personally think the school and city is great but with my short time of being here so much of the school, city and state ( politically) has changed then what it was when I made my decision to attend the school. I have met great people here, especially in my hall but do regret staying on campus as my dorm does not feel like a second home which is awful. I also wish I had a car, I did come here knowing that Iowa City was a small town but now dread spending all my weekends within a square mile. I guess I do know at least one school I would have applied to is Ohio State University- Columbus if doing the application process over.</p>
<p>I also know a lot more now. I definitely would not have applied to the schools I did and I definitely wouldn’t have gone to this one…unfortunately when you’re applying a lot of kids rarely know what the best learning environment for them is, where they’ll be happy, etc.</p>
<p>That said I also didn’t have much of a choice in it. So there’s a whole host of regrets surrounding that too…i.e. could I have said or done something differently, realistically speaking, to change it all. Oh well.</p>
<p>I think for the most part this thread lets people indulge in things they really shouldn’t…regrets aren’t good…hindsight is always 20/20.</p>
<p>Coolbreeze go to Grinnell and Iowa City seems like heaven to you in terms of size and things to do. </p>
<p>I don’t know if I would choose my College again. I seriously don’t. I meet many amazing people here but also a few idiots. Despite the label of having an intellectual atmosphere I don’t seem to have found, or maybe I am just looking in all the wrong places. I think if I had a car, or Grinnell was closer to a bigger city, (or at least by itself a little bit bigger) I would probably have chosen it again in a heartbeat. But being stuck in a 10 000 people town has definitely been a challenge for me. It’s not that I don’t have anything to do, it’s that I can’t get away when I need/want to.</p>
<p>I go to Stanford and have never once regretted it :D</p>
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Silence I looked at Grinnell my senior year but the school was just too small.
Silence that is one of my issues with Iowa City, its not that bustling haven I thought it was. I feel stuck within a square mile or box.</p>
<p>If I could go back I would have visited and applied to some all girls schools, since I didn’t do either it’s difficult to say if I would have gone somewhere else. Of everywhere I applied, I would definitely still choose to go here.</p>
<p>Yep, absolutely.</p>
<p>Coolbrezze No I can completely understand that Iowa City will seem small/boring after a while. I come from a big city so you can probably guess my level of excitement when I found out how small grinnell is. I got used to it, but I still wish I had a car or someone willing to drive me somewhere every weekend.</p>
<p>YES. I probably love my school more than is humanly healthy. I’m not even a senior yet and the thought of leaving makes me sad.</p>
<p>I might have went to University of Washington but instead I went to Oregon State which I am happy with.</p>
<p>Every day I ask myself why I chose Indiana University over the University of Michigan.</p>