If you could do it over again...

College Search & Selection
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<p>Before, I did not take finances into much consideration, and only applied to schools my parents thought would be best fit for me. Knowing what I know now, through extensive research about my major (finance w/ accounting) and what direction I wanted to take (corporate law, most probably insurance), I would have chosen a more refined list of schools that would fit me more than it would fit my parents. My parents want a quieter liberal-arts academic environment, but I preferred larger universities with D-I sports which had: 100% meet need aid policies, good placement and advising into MBA and law school, a combination of ½ “core”, ½ “pre-professional” requirements, strength in the sciences and literature/philosophy, and availability of internships in the Northeast.
My list would have looked something like this:
Cornell University ED (AEM/ILR)
Georgetown University (McDonough)
University of Virginia (McIntire)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross)
New York University (Stern)
UNC-Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagger)
Boston College (Carroll) [will be attending]
University of Southern California (Marshall)
University of Connecticut (Business Honors) (In-State)
Knowing what you know now, if you could recreate a list of colleges to apply to, what would it be?</p>

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<p>I only wish I had applied to more reaches and less super safeties that I didn’t even want to go to.</p>

<p>But I’m nearly 100% happy with where I’m planning on going next year. I think for what I want, it’s just about perfect.</p>

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<p>If I could recreate a list of colleges, <em>and</em> if financial aid policies were then what they are now re: the top schools, I’d have applied to:

  • UMass Amherst (I did apply there)
  • Smith
  • Dartmouth (Instead of Cornell, where I did apply)
  • Brown
  • Syracuse (I did apply there)
  • Carnegie Mellon (Instead of Cooper Union)
  • Clark (I did apply there)
  • Middlebury (Instead of Hamilton)
  • and maybe Flagler College, just because it’s so pretty</p>

<p>But then again, I’m not the person I was at age 18. :shrugs: And in the end, I did go to one of the schools that I put on this list, and I’m still happy I went there.</p>

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<p>Im perfectly content with my alma mater. But if i had to do it again i would have applied to these schools.</p>

<p>Claremont Mckenna
Vanderbilt
UCLA</p>