<p>what were some reasons you decided not to go to your #1 school when you were accepted?</p>
<p>I know I might have to for financial reasons...</p>
<p>Yeah, I might be in the same boat financially.</p>
<p>We'll see in a week and a bit, though. Have to get in first, haha. :]</p>
<p>Ready for mine? If I dont get in Early Decision! Astounding, I know.</p>
<p>Financial reasons: The only aid I could get was Stafford Loan at like $2650 or somethin a year...didn't want to graduate in overwhelming debt or put my parents through financial stress while remodeling our home (it used to be a one-room schoolhouse that has been expanded and now is being remodeled). But I love my current school and won't have nearly as much debt!</p>
<p>More financial that anything...but that doesn't necessarily rule it out for the future - many institutions offer hefty merit grants and scholarships to those who have demonstrated academic excellence in higher education.</p>
<p>I should note that I hope to attend grad school at the school that was my #1 for undergrad. Plan to live in state for a few years, hold a good job in my field, and then go back for grad school :)</p>
<p>I would never let go of my number 1 school, my parents told me that if I got into Boston College or Tulane, they wouldn't make me go to another school, despite BC's price tag and the fact that if I do get into either school, I won't get any financial aid b/c i'm upper middle class.</p>
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<p>haha same .</p>
<p>Zanna, you apply to Rice?</p>
<p>Easiest way to let go of your number one school is not to have one.</p>
<p>Parents FORCED me to apply ED I to Penn. I don't want really want to go. Good news is, chances are, I probably won't get in.</p>
<p>There are two schools I really liked. University of Pittsburgh Honors College (already accepted) and the University of Rochester. Chances are, I'll be attending one or the other.</p>
<p>Financial reasons- it was more expensive than my other options</p>
<p>You get over it pretty quickly, assuming you chose your list carefully.</p>
<p>...will be insanely difficult. Yeah one reason would be if I don't get in early decision. We'll see in about a week.</p>
<p>jpod: I'm applying to Rice but not ED
My ED school is Princeton</p>
<p>Yeah I saw after i posted. good luck. all of those are great schools.</p>
<p>how much student loan is considered "too much"?
if i want to go to my #1 school, I might be looking at up to $10,000/year of loan...</p>
<p>"Easiest way to let go of your number one school is not to have one."</p>
<p>An extremely wise statement. </p>
<p>If you can only be happy at one place, does that say more about you than you think?</p>
<p>Parkrpark, I think that'd be too much.</p>
<p>OpiefromMayberry, I think it's more of a preferred choice.</p>
<p>Pet peeve: Live in a quite an affluent area. High achieving students at our high school work hard, get into primo private colleges, then mom and dad -- who have 3 new Beemers in the garage, tell the kid they're not going to pay anything toward the kid's college education because although they make so much that they do not qualify for need-based aid, they spend every dime of what they make on their own luxuries so that their kids are out of luck. Unless, of course, the kid wants to take on 100% loans all by themselves. Then the brokenhearted kid ends up at State although he or she got accepted to Brown or Columbia. The worst culprits are the ones who don't even discuss this with their kids until AFTER they've gotten the thick envelopes.</p>
<p>4th, I know what you mean. I live in the exact same area.</p>
<p>Oh miss zanna, what major did you apply to at Princeton.</p>