<p>Thanks rorosen for your very kind words. I dont think you are too willing to kick anything. In fact, you have a way of getting the job done without kicking. That David and Goliath admonishment you gave me was hilarious, and yet I didnt feel a kick. It was more like a firm nudge with your foot. That took some real skill. LOL</p>
<p>Icargirl / (and APDoolittle):</p>
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Well... you seem to have really liked Princeton, so I don't see why you should second guess yourself. Clearly, you seem to have been leaning toward Princeton from the start, considering that you took the time to go there over other schools. If nothing you saw shook your impression, than why not go with it?
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APDoolittle seems to be suffering from something I have seen in my own kid and that is really understandable. Lets say you are faced with a choice between what in my opinion are the two greatest undergrad schools in the country, Yale and Princeton (others may think differently about these choices, but whatever they are, they are the greatest in the mind of the chooser). You know you can just spin around and randomly choose one of these schools and basically, when it comes to quality, youve chosen six of one, a half dozen of the other.</p>
<p>The problem is, the schools are not identical. They each present some difference that at one time may be really fine and that at another may be not so fine. What you really want is to have BOTH. But you cant. You gotta choose, and by choosing you are losing the school you did not choose and that you really wanted. You know, young folks like you and APDoolittle and many here are really special. You folks arent like everybody else. You are pushing hard for everything you get. So when you get these choices, you feel the loss of the choice more acutely than most people because youve paid for it in blood and sweat and tears.</p>
<p>This is another reason I say use your head when you make the choice because you are gonna lose something when you do. You may as well lose after some really clear thinking. Then, as rara_avis here has wisely said</p>
<p>Just make your decision and don't look back...</p>