<p>Attention Slipper,</p>
<p>Business is not all that matters.</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>A Wisconsin undergrad who will recieve admissions to law schools many Penn students could never dream of</p>
<p>PSU Schreyer is a really awesome program. I think someone who can get into NU would be one of the top students at Schreyers along with kids who couldn't afford UPenn/other top schools. They'd have nice opps.</p>
<p>I really liked the program :-)</p>
<p>Transfer, when the 'will' becomes 'has received' then be sure to brag.
I don't like empty talk ;-)</p>
<p>UWM is amazing though.</p>
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<p>That's good to know, but in any case, what I said was directed at the people who would make such a decision and not you.</p>
<p>A lot of you who comment on the choice of relationship over school have either never been in love or choose to ignore the importance that ones significant other plays in life. </p>
<p>Granted not all people out of high school will make their relationships work in the long haul, but a few people do, and end up having 50+ year marriages.</p>
<p>And trust me, no matter what school you graduated from, having someone you love and someone who loves you, to come home to at the end of the day, is more important than the education you will get at Prestige U.</p>
<p>The thing is, this is High Schoolers we're talking about.</p>
<p>Notice in most of the cases they've been break ups right after the decision went in, or shortly after the year started.
Regardless, it's a horrible reason to pick a school, and as a high schooler I have to say that it's one of the worst reasons you can pick to go to a school. If the school was where you had wanted to go anyway, then all the power to ya, but the way it happens sometimes is just ridiculous.
There are some kids in the demographic who have no right to use the word 'love' , let alone make a decision based on it. Lust is a much better term describing what most people were feeling at this point of time.</p>
<p>This was not a stupid decision, one of the best of my life, but some of you might find it stupid. I had the stats to get into the best of the best, ranked in the top 10%, 2300 SAT (800W 800V 700M), 4.0 GPA, etc., but I chose to apply ED to the University of Virginia because it was where I wanted to go. Now, I truly believe I could not be recieving a better education anywhere in the world, and I could not imagine a more fun, engaging, and lively college experience. I may have sacrificed a bit of the prestige factor, but I couldn't be happier with my choice. UVa is the perfect college for me: a beautiful location that's easy to get to, nearby mountains and beaches, the most amazing campus in the world, history and traditions, D1 sports teams, a charming town, a great attitude, an amazing education, and wonderful weather...I could go on ALL DAY about why I love my school. I visited most of the Ivies, but I have been watching football and basketball ever since I was an infant, and going to a school without D1 sports would have been like cutting off my right hand--life would be so difficult! Plus, no campus setting or student body attitude could compare; not Stanford, Duke, Penn, Harvard, Pton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Vandy, Wake, Chicago...or any of the seemingly millions of other schools I considered. UVa is the best place in the world for me. Plus, I'm in the Echols program, which means I'm exempt from all core requirements and I get priority registration. AND I'm barely paying anything, even though money was never a factor for my family. It couldn't be better. Screw prestige, I know I'm smart enough and a hard enough worker to get any job I want upon graduation, and right now all I know is that I am enjoying UVa to the fullest and I don't wish to be anywhere else.</p>
<p>By the way, it's worth mentioning that my boyfriend of three years went to film school in LA, and the temptation to go to USC or USD or UCLA or another California school was VERY VERY strong, but we both agreed that neither of us should sacrifice our personal desires just to be physically close. As my mom's ex-boyfriend told her when she wanted to move to Michigan with him despite her amazing job in Washington DC, "Don't come just to follow me. One day, some day down the line, you'll resent me for it. It might not be today, or tomorrow, or 5 years from now, but it'll come, and you'll be upset that you didn't follow your own dreams just so you could be with me." Long-distance isn't turning out to be as bad as I'd thought, and I think we made the right choice.</p>
<p>Yeah, you're a total idiot going to a terrible school.
Give it a rest, UVA is amazing.</p>
<p>it's ok. UVA is amazingly prestigious and everyone knows it rocks. rock on semiserious.</p>
<p>UVA is considered the best public uni in america by a lot of people and is a top 25 school no matter how you look at it... no one can consider going to UVA a bad choice...</p>
<p>Haha, I know UVA is a great school. :) But I also know that CC is insane.</p>
<p>not insane enough to consider going to UVA a bad decision no matter where you got accepted to</p>
<p>Shazilla, I beg to differ.
There are some people who would be posting here if kids turned down Harvard since they got Moorehouse (sp?/i think that's the program) at UNC-CH .</p>
<p>It sounds like you DID make the right choice...but anyways arn't some of the Ivy's Div 1? Keep having fun there and gl with everything! </p>
<p>p.s. my cousin and her boyfriend went to colleges in different states and stayed together through it all. Once they left college and were around eachother a ton, they started getting pet-peeves with eachother and such and it didn't end up working out. They are both very very successful now because of the colleges/things they did there and after so I don't think they have any regrets...</p>
<p>I think all of the Ivies are D1 now that you mention it, but its more of an honorary title than a name that means anything since they are all pretty much AWFUL at sports and really should be D2 or even D3. What I meant to convey is that sports are very important to me and I consider painting myself orange and blue and screaming the Good Ol' Song at every touchdown a major asset to my college experience.</p>
<p>a kid from my school last year applied to harvard (and got rejected) even though harvard didnt have his major at all just because he wanted to go THE top school...
I lol'd...</p>
<p>the ivy league is it's own division 1 athletic conference... the same way the ACC , SEC, and Big 10 are... the reason why the Ivy League sports team sucks is because they don't offer athletic scholarships... i heard that they are going to start offering them though...</p>
<p>I don't think they will ever offer it. What they do is say you can come to an Ivy League college, and it's enough for some smart ones that could actually go. They also give "scholarships" <em>wink wink</em> to athletes to make it easier to throw down the money.</p>
<p>Slipper, what didn't you like about Columbia?</p>