<p>That’s why you don’t haven’t to share at all.</p>
<p>I have it even worse. My teacher told my class that we need to figure out where we are going in the next two months…I won’t even find out if I’m in or not by then!</p>
<p>I just say “I don’t know.” as if I haven’t applied yet.</p>
<p>Why must you know in two months’ time, ZombieDante?</p>
<p>If people are understanding enough with me, if they know I’m doing electrical engineering, they don’t mind me going to the school that I’m going to. But otherwise, I cannot avoid it.</p>
<p>~But I still get a lot of criticism. At least I can say I applied to UC Berkeley, but no, it’s too expensive, too many people, and the same class-wise I hear.</p>
<p>P.S. I’ve heard that it becomes rude to ask such questions like this and test scores/grades in college.</p>
<p>tangentline: I’m doing electrical engineering too, and I’m pretty bent on Ga Tech, but then all kinds of people ask me what I’m intending to major in, and the second I say EE, they go WHAAAAAT followed by a really long laugh, and then they go like, ohmygosh you mean you weren’t joking ???</p>
<p>So that kind of kills the whole topic altogether for me LOL</p>
<p>@eoayann idk that’s what my capstone teacher wants us to do. </p>
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<p>My oldest son went to a really competitive high school and everyone was obsessed with who was going where. He greatly enjoyed telling people that he wasn’t going to go, that he was going to become a pole dancer in a strip bar! Only the really stupid ones didn’t catch on not to follow up with another question. A friend of his told people that he had gotten a full scholarship to play fantasy football at Strayer online.</p>
<p>Parent here, but one who between prep school and college applications has been asked the question a lot I hope you don’t mind if I chime in here. </p>
<p>I find the best way to answer the question when you really don’t want to us to give the asker just enough vague information to make it appear you’re answering the question without telling them anything specific.</p>
<p>For instance, "Where is my daughter applying? Small Midwestern liberal arts colleges. (or mid-sized East Coast schools with good engineering programs or schools in the California state system, etc.) Is she looking at Oberlin? Ooh Oberlin’s a great school. I’ve heard good things about their music programs. But where is she applying specifically? I told you, silly, small midwestern LACs! Does she have a first choice? Absolutely. The one that sends her an acceptance letter!</p>
<p>xoxoviviannnn: If you’re a female, props. Electrical engineering and Georgia Tech’s male-female ratio… I wish the field wasn’t so stereotypical to be mostly male… I want to be unique and it is for my high school, but not my race and gender.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m a girl haha 
I wish there were more girls in EE !!</p>
<p>For me thought I do feel like what I say attract different responses. Like I’m going to Purdue, but I get response like “there is little amount of black people”, “all asian”. Really this area focus on race a little too much.
But in the past when I said another college (since Purdue is really the best one around here aside from Northwestern) they would say, “you can do better”, and “really? You’re going to that school.” Now quite frankly I don’t give a damn. I won’t see 9/10 of them in the future anyway.</p>
<p>I applied to some reach schools, but I typically say something along the lines of, “I’ll probably end up at ASU.”</p>
<p>The school with the 90% acceptance rate. :)</p>
<p>Hate this question. And most people at my school apply to state schools with rolling admissions so they already know, but I have to wait till late March/early April to find out from almost all of my schools.</p>
<p>And I usually just say I’m applying to Ohio State, Denison, and a bunch of other out-of-state ones.</p>
<p>We’ll be getting more annoying question similar to this one again in 4 years- “Are you going to grad school?” “Do you have a job?” “What are you planning on doing after you graduate?”</p>
<p>I’m only a junior, but whenever I’m asked about my college plans I claim that I’ll probably end up at my state flagship.</p>
<p>People don’t like awkward pauses in conversations, and are just trying to keep the dialogue going. You could always try asking the other person questions first! People love to talk about themselves.</p>
<p>I tell them. I don’t really have a problem with it. It was annoying when I hadn’t heard back from any school, but now I just say that I’ve gotten into Tulane and Michigan and that I’m waiting to hear from my top choices. Then they’ll ask what my top choices are and I just say UCLA, Pomona, Columbia and Northwestern. For juniors asked what schools you you’re applying to, I suggest just telling people a representative sample. Like one safety, one match, one reach and whatever your favorite is. It worked well for me.</p>
<p>In my community, we all know where everyone is applying. When someone gets rejected/deferred, a flurry of conversation follows where everyone tries to figure out why the person wasn’t good enough.
This shall be my reality in a year and a half.</p>
<p>Ah, this is driving me crazy as well. People are like “where are you going?” and I’m like “well, I’ve only heard back from 1 of like 12 different schools so…” You know, I’d love to be like Columbia! Which is my dream school, but I haven’t exactly gotten a reply yet. It’s awkward… </p>
<p>Right now though I just say that UChicago is one of my top choices and I’ve been accepted there EA, so I’m considering it, but I want to hear from other schools as well which won’t be until like March at the earliest.</p>