<p>^UNC-Chapel Hill. Read his “Location”</p>
<p>i know someone just like that.</p>
<p>@SwaGGeReR
Me too!</p>
<p>I believed I had the credentials to get into UVa (“Dream” school like all other NOVA kids) or William and Mary and was wait listed at both 
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<p>I guess everything happens for a reason…</p>
<p>And I will probably be going to Penn State…what I thought was a safety until I realized it is a good school. </p>
<p>To the OP: go where you want to go. VA tech is a good school! I didn’t like it there, but I’m not even sure if I like UVa anymore since a lot of people are pretentious jerks there…(still a little bitter about WL if guess). Just go where you feel you can do well and be yourself. If VA Tech truly is that place then I hope you can go there. Don’t choose a school based on rank. Choose a school based on where you feel the most comfortable and believe you can be happy and do well there.</p>
<p>I thought my whole life that I wanted to go to Duke. I used to live up that way and have attended summer programs at Duke.</p>
<p>In the end, I didn’t even apply.</p>
<p>Not sure why, but I just decided that it wasn’t right for me.</p>
<p>I ended up accepting what started as my safety school (University of Central Florida) because (a) they made me a great scholarship offer and (b) they actively recruited me in a very personal way. I feel like I won’t just be a number at the school.</p>
<p>I was accepted into almost all the colleges I applied to (darn you Columbia!), so it wasn’t a matter of “settling.” I really liked the way that it “felt” when dealing with the recruiters.</p>
<p>^ I agree.</p>
<p>The people at Penn State that I met really welcomed me to their school and every person I met gave me their contact information in case I had any questions. I even was given advising sessions and I felt that the school really took a personal approach to recruiting me. Go where you feel the best and hopefully everything will work itself out. If you absolutely can not stay at the school, you can always transfer out…</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK! I think the Class of 2010 will be thinking debating a lot this month!</p>
<p>I had to decided between VT and UVA myself, but UVa came out on top.
UVa had way better financial aid package, and their administrators are AWESOME!!</p>
<p>I overheard a graduating UMich senior, who had been accepted to medical school, talking in an airplane one day. She said she wished she had gone to a slightly less rigorous school - that it was so tough to get the grades she felt she needed to get into med school and she thought she would have had an easier time at a slightly easier school.</p>
<p>Going back to the original post, I turned down Wellesley and Tufts for Boston U (which is giving me a full-tuition scholarship and specialty housing). I couldn’t be happier!!!</p>
<p>I had never even considered going to Alabama until I saw their scholarship offer. At that point, I didn’t really have a choice. I did not get turned down by anywhere I applied to, and I know I could have been accepted into much more prestigious schools than I applied to. I realized that I could have a great academic experience without having to go to an ultra-expensive school. I’m really happy I ended up here and have had a great time since coming here.</p>
<p>I hope that if Hopeiscool still wants to go to med school after UG then he or she will be able, but the reality is that most high school seniors who plan to go to med school before college don’t go and I would not put money down on a senior already looking for an easier way.</p>
<p>To the OP:
If you do indeed choose VTech over UVA, I’ll gladly take your stop at UVa :)</p>
<p>You’ll do well wherever you go though! Just choose the place you feel the best at.</p>
<p>Also, both schools are really good for engineering if you end up going that route.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>My school has a <80% med school acceptance rate…and it’s small and not super well known.</p>
<p>^^ My school has a ~91% med school acceptance rate… and it’s small and not super well known.</p>
<p>I settled for my safety too. I was rejected from one of my top choices (Columbia), but accepted to the other (NYU). But to make NYU possible, I’d have to take out over $100,000 in loans. On the other hand, I got a full ride to Stony Brook University and was admitted to their honors college. So I’m headed to SBU in the fall, as much as it breaks my heart to decline NYU’s offer of admission.</p>
<p>Today my D accepted her place at Florida Southern College, rejecting University of Florida, Florida State U, Miami University (Oxford) and Indiana University. This small school pursued her and after all scholarships provided by school has a full ride. She is incredibly happy with her decision and looks forward to being involved in the smaller campus. The school offered her a guaranteed 10 day abroad experience in her junior or senior year with expenses paid for by the school. </p>
<p>Technically it was her biggest safety… but she will be challenged and engaged in learning.</p>
<p>As her parents it was tough to give up the big college experience, but she is confident that this is her match.</p>
<p>im going to my safety school/ low match school b/c my parents dont think emory is worth tuition and little fin aid</p>
<p>I got into Rice, my top choice, but I’m going to Texas A&M. Interestingly, their engineering programs are equally ranked and I’m paying 1/4 of what I would be at Rice.</p>
<p>So I haven’t read the whole thread, and maybe this was addressed here, but for many, many years, UVa has had the reputation as being harder to get into, but easier to succeed once there…Tech, on the other hand, has a reputation for being easier to get into, but being more difficult in terms of grading.</p>
<p>Is this true? Who knows. I know many people at UVa who managed to graduate by cracking down when necessary, but they didn’t really have steady, good study habits. The folks I know who went to Tech really seemed to bloom as students once they got there. </p>
<p>Anyway. I would think that pre-med is going to be challenging wherever you decide to attend. I think at this point I would choose the place I felt more comfortable and more at home.</p>
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<p>People get so caught up in reputation and rankings.</p>
<p>In reality, except for very few private universities (HYPSM and such) there’s little difference.</p>
<p>And it might surprise you how industries view different schools (i.e., not so differently regardless of name recognition through big-time sports and such).</p>
<p>I’m attending my safety, although I’m not sure if I would call it settling.</p>
<p>I was rejected from all three of my dream schools(Stanford, Brown, MIT), and Yale.</p>
<p>I was also waitlisted at WashU, Middlebury, and Tufts.</p>
<p>I was accepted at Tulane, and after giving it serious consideration, decided to decline a spot on the waitlist at WashU because I believed that if it was between WashU and Tulane, I’d choose Tulane.</p>
<p>I went down to visit recently, and I have to say that New Orleans is full of the happiest, kindest people I’ve ever met, and I’m proud to be of the Tulane class of '014.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but where is the logic in that? I understand doing that for pure financial reasons. But still.
Take student loans or something. I really don’t see why ANYONE would pick Michigan State over UChicago.
And I can’t understand why anyone would choose Vtech over UVA.</p>