<p>So here is the deal:</p>
<p>At my Deerfield interview, I was told that if I sent a first choice letter to Deerfield, I would have a guaranteed spot at the school. Exeter was my first choice, so naturally, I couldn't send an honest first choice letter to the Deerfield. </p>
<p>Know I am getting ready to go to Exeter, and all I really want to know it, should I regret making this decision? I can't wait to go to Exeter, but do you guys think it was the right choice?</p>
<p>Honesty is the best policy. Unnecessary cold feet, you’ll be fine at Exeter. Enjoy!</p>
<p>I’m biased towards DA but I think you made the right choice for you. I think your just getting cold feet now.</p>
<p>i think you got to go with your gut on this one i wanted to go to this one school really badly last year and i ended up at a different one and it never worked out for me . if your going to a school that you dont feel 100 percent about switch it now while you can and go to a different one or you will end up like what happen to me. i wanted to go to one school really badly, i didnt end up there i ended up at a different school and then that different school i attened never worked out cause it was not the school that i really wanted to be at so my advise to you is go to DA and save yourself the hasle</p>
<p>Stick with what you felt during visits/revisits.</p>
<p>that dosnt really work too well when you honestly feel for one school over the other in this case DA over Exeter. if you think you should go to DA and you truly think that DA is a better fit for you Exeter will not work out. its a very personaly decision to make.</p>
<p>@ euka
You must be on the Exeter waiting list or something. Your opinions, with all due respect, are clumsy and unguarded.</p>
<p>For cutiedida:
Exeter will be an incredible experience. It will be a turning point that you will cherish for the rest of your life. Just butterflies with a little anxiety and lots of excitement, who wouldn’t be.</p>
<p>Just think about ** WHY ** you wanted to go to Exeter in the first place so bad. I think you’re just feeling * iffy * due to the anxiousness you’re feeling. You’re just nervous, that’s all. You also have to remember that it’s too late to change your mind now - Deerfield probably no longer has a seat for you, and you’ve probably already sent in a deposit check for Exeter. I’m pretty sure Exeter is where you want to be - you even said it yourself:</p>
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<p>And don’t ask us for advice. It was your decision - do what you feel is right. Which place did you feel more fit in?</p>
<p>As said before on this forum, “there is more than one place that would work for a student”. I believe it is somewhat late in the game to change your mind,especially for DA since they are over enrolled from last cycle, 2009-10. Embrace Exeter and it will embrace you. When you made the choice you had strong feelings, stick to your gut.</p>
<p>What Alex’s mom said is right. In situations like this I always remember - everything happens for a porpoise :).</p>
<p>Thanks guys! Yeah I feel a lot better already. I also reminded myself I didn’t choose Deerfield and did choose Exeter! Thanks for all the support!</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll see you on move-in day then! (I’ll be the dopey mom following her son around with a camera.) :)</p>
<p>Haha don’t worry, my mom will probably be doing the same!</p>
<p>ops im just saying from my experience i really wanted to go to hotckiss but i ended up at taft and i ended up leaving because i wanted to go to hotchkiss alot more and i liked it alot more, but that said you always have doubt about things before you leave but when you end up there that all goes away and you realize that it was the right choice, everyone does have second thoughts but in my case i had a little bit more than just doubting myself i was kinda mad that i wasnt at hotchkiss and thats was kinda ruined it for me.</p>
<p>@euka - I realize that you might be typing on a phone, but I have a very difficult time reading your posts. I’d like to know your opinion since (from what I can gather) you do have regrets, but it’s just too hard for me to decipher what you write. I mean no offense; it’s just that I suspect I’m not the only one having trouble. Could someone translate for us oldsters? :)</p>
<p>euka was accepted into taft but rejected from hotchkiss. so he/she went to taft but he/she hated it so much. he/she was mad that he/she didn’t get accepted into hotchkiss so he/she ended up leaving taft.</p>
<p>i wasnt rejected at hotchkiss i never went there becuase there was an issue with financial aid.</p>
<p>eu–How do you know you would have “loved” Hotchkiss???</p>
<p>Why would you apply to any school that you would not have wanted to attend?? and been happy to have been selected??</p>
<p>Did you really give Taft a chance or just pout about not getting into Hotchkiss? </p>
<p>From a parent point point of view you seem somewhat spoiled and did not appreciate the opportunity that Taft gave you?</p>
<p>Unless your family is dirty rich and gives a school millions of dollars, bs is a gift to the kids it chooses.</p>
<p>JMHO ;-(</p>
<p>^ He didn’t get rejected, like he said there were financial aid issues (meaning he isn’t rich also). And I wouldn’t call that spoiled, it sounds like he REALLY disliked Taft, and if Hotchkiss was the place he thought was best for him, then, by all means, he should pursue that goal.</p>
<p>Well, I am a little late, but stick with Exeter cutiedida. It will be so much fun and well you were accepted you know how cool it is…can’t wait until Orientation/Registration Day!!! :D</p>