@nambo714 No, I don’t think he’d be embarrassed of me. It’s just that I definitely would see him everyday because we both run cross country and track, and he told me the girls and guys team practice together.
@nordietrackie Just today she sent in her Early Decision application to her top choice school, but if she doesn’t get in (16% acceptance rate, gack!) she’ll be applying to/going to possibly Union, or Skidmore, one I’m forgetting, or Reed. They are all good LAC schools with happy students; one of her big priorities was the sense of a genuinely happy community (that’s why she decided not to apply to Wesleyan btw, when we toured there it was Saturday but everyone was strangely dour, it was an odd experience).
I went to the same college as my older brother, we overlapped by a year and a half (he graduated a semester late), I joined his fraternity, we lived together in the fraternity house that last semester. Even took one class together (until he dropped it). Altogether it was a very positive experience and brought our already close relationship even closer, and we are still close today, 20 years later.
If I had to do it all over again though, would I make a different choice, though? I think I would. It doesn’t have anything to do with my brother though. I had a really bad senior year of high school, my mother had a serious mental breakdown. My brother and I were always really close, sort of a family within a family, I kind of clung to him as the only person in my family I completely trusted and relied upon, and really missed him when he went off to college. With the bad senior year, defaulting to be at the same place with him felt the “safest” route even though I had other options at more prestigious universities, and when I got a big academic scholarship to my brother’s school, that was it, I committed. But then once my brother graduated, I realized greek life was not for me. It was emotional dependence that sent me to my brother’s college, and I’ve long ago outgrown that, so I sometimes lament not going to one of the prestigious east coast schools that wanted me, seeing another part of the country, and also going to a school without a greek system, like Georgetown. So, I would say make sure that your brother going to that school has nothing to do with your interest in it. Would you go there even if he wasn’t there?