WHAT ARE YOUR CHOICES? Come here to help people decide.

<p>fierydemise - Is UR a significantly better school than UW for electrical engineering? If it is not much better, the overall reputation of UW will help you for job/grad school placement. How much do you want to get out of state, or is that a non-issue? If you don’t care, I’d suggest UW. </p>

<p>Rister_Chutophs - What are you planning on majoring in? Either way, each college will have a great program for it (though some more renowned than others) Duke would be the school with the best social life and school spirit and best weather. U Penn is in the city and quite large (compared to the others) Brown has the liberal collegey feel to it with open curriculum. Providence is gorgeous from what I hear. Have you visited each campus? This would probably tell you where you want to go. I bet a Duke student, Penn student, and Brown student are all equally intelligent and qualified but have very different personalities. Find the one you relate to most.</p>

<p>Goofball21 - In the academic world, going to Haverford is like going to Brown or Wash U. It is very well respected and on par with the Ivies. If two of your other choices were Georgetown and Amherst, I bet you’d fit in best at Haverford too.</p>

<p>greatgirls - This is probably not the answer you want, but any of those choices will offer your daughter what she is looking for. Wash U and Brown seem to be small enough to provide the intimate atmosphere she might like at the LACs. Since all would be great, look at location and personality of the student body. I imagine it’s more cutthroat at Wash U than the others, but that might be contained to Pre-med students. Wash U is St. Louis (obviously) and is an urban area. Davidson would probably have the best weather being in North Carolina and is a suburban area. Brown is in Providence and a generally colder place than the others. Do you come from the northeast or will she have to adjust to the cold? Find out how students at each of these schools have fun. Do they go into the surrounding area or do they stay on campus? Is the greek system highly influential? How does she feel about that? etc.</p>

<p>Megannia - If you love big cities and don’t mind the occasional snowflake, American sounds like a great place to be. DC, anyone? What do you mean you’ll start with a major in Anthropology? What are you eventually hoping to do? If you are interested in politics or law in any way, American would be the better choice because of location and internship opps. Once the final financial packages come, the choice will be clearer. </p>

<p>ubetteraccept_me - Nice username, btw. What are you hoping to major in? Either way, Emory has something like 5000 undergrads while UNC has closer to 20000. That is a very different environment. Smaller means more intimate classes and environment all together but could be too small and restricts you from meeting as many people as you had hoped. You might find yourself talking to the same people all the time. I doubt that would happen, but it is possible. Larger means always finding new people, but the possibility of being lost as a number in a sea of numbers. I imagine the social life at these two schools to be very differnt also. What do they do for fun? Do you feel like you would be interested in those same things? I hope Northwestern comes through for you.</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone.</p>

<p>Acceptances:
UCI
UCSD
UC Berkeley
USC
Scripps
Cornell
Vassar
Wellesley</p>

<p>Rejections:
Stanford
Pomona</p>

<p>Deciding between: Vassar, Wellesley, and UC Berkeley (just in case I don’t like the other two)
Leaning towards: Vassar and Wellesley, but I’m not going to make a decision until I visit both campuses next week. </p>

<p>Both schools gave me generous financial aid packages, so money is not a huge issue in my decision making. I’ve lived in sunny weather for all of my life, so living on the East Coast will be a new experience, but I’m open to change. I’m considering a double major in Chemistry and Media Studies, but that might change when I get to college.</p>

<p>I want a place that is a good balance between strong academics and social activities. I was considering Cornell, but I decided that a smaller school would fit me better and I thought it would be too difficult to find transportation home. Any input would be appreciated!</p>

<p>Acceptances:
Emory
UNC
NYU
Northeastern (15k/year)
BU
Fordham (14k/year)
GWU (15k/year)
Pitt (Pending full ride/almost full ride)</p>

<p>Rejections:
UCLA</p>

<p>Deciding between:UNC, GW, Pitt, and Emory
Leaning towards: GW and UNC (College visit next week will be the tipping point)</p>

<p>I want to go into Business with a concentration in Marketing/International Marketing</p>

<p>Any suggestions?</p>

<p>To JustInTime: Congratulations! For your info. My son really likes CMU for School of Computer Science. It is great! If you are a techie, you will like this program. Cornell: My son thought CMU SCS was better. However, if there is a chance that you might want a different area of engineering, then you might prefer Cornell. Cornell has great food.</p>

<p>Acceptances:
Notre Dame
UCLA
Cal Poly SLO
UIUC
UCSC</p>

<p>Rejected:
UCB
UCSD</p>

<p>It’s down to UCLA vs. ND. Will do either engineering or business. Yet to hear about Financial Aid from ND, but that will be a big factor. UCLA is on-state, so I’m looking at about 20k per year there. I’ve been to UCLA twice and love it but I prefer the size and community of ND that you hear so much about, and will be visiting there next week. What do you guys think? Where would you go?</p>

<p>Accepted:
Emerson C
Fordham U
New College of Florida
Sarah Lawrence
Hampshire </p>

<p>Wait-Listed:
Bard</p>

<p>Rejected:
Vassar
Oberlin</p>

<p>It’s between Sarah Lawrence and New College of Florida. The decisive factor is money. New College is roughly 27,000 with aid, while Sarah Lawrence is about about 46,000 with loans. I think I would get a lot more out of Sarah Lawrence; I want to be a writer, and their fiction writing program is largely unparalleled. On top of that, it’s less than 30 minutes out of NYC, which is obviously a great place for a fledgling writer to begin establishing contacts in the publishing industry, journaalism industry, etc. Not only that, but I think it has a bit more of an established rep than New College, and the education, holistically speaking, seems the tiniest bit better. Don’t get me wrong, I love New College, and I think it’s a great fit for me, but Sarah Lawrence has me swooning. But it’s also ridiculously expensive, and while there’s a chance I might get a sliver of extra aid, it probably won’t amount to much. So here’s the dilemma: do I let my parents face the brunt of the damage just so I can get a marginally better education at a place I really want to be (I think), or do I “settle” for New College? I’m really at a crossroads. Thanks.</p>

<p>Edit: I sound sort of like a selfish prick, but I’ve already sort of consigned myself to the fact that I’ll probably be attending New College. Well, I shouldn’t say consigned, because I love the school. I just hate South Florida.</p>

<p>Accepted:
Indiana (Kelley direct admit)
BU
Northeastern
Fordham
UC Davis
UCSB
Santa Clara
Bentley college
American University</p>

<p>Wait-Listed:
Wake Forest</p>

<p>Rejected:
UPenn
NYU
Vanderbilt
USC</p>

<p>Waiting for Michigan.</p>

<p>I’m an Asian male from California. My most important factors are - quality of education/prestige of college, quality of people there (friendly/happy/etc), quality of sports/partying, and quality of future internships/jobs/recruiting.</p>

<p>Right now I’m leaning toward Indiana the most.</p>

<p>@ mtngoat1
First, you don’t sound like a selfish prick, you sound like someone who isn’t willing to say no to something they love, just yet.
Second, I am a native of South Florida who used to be a native of the Tampa Bay area. I wouldn’t really consider Sarasota South Florida. It’s right outside of Tampa, right? That’s central florida. Minor technicality. True, it doesn’t have the benefits of New York City, but still, Tampa, Orlando, and other central Florida locations have excellent newspapers which would be great for summer internships. I think because you are going to school to be an author or journalist or something related to writing, you could come out writing the next Harry Potter and be richer than the Queen of England, or you may end up like many starving authors or comfortable journalists. Either way, it is not a profitable career and if you have to take on any significant amount of loans yourself, it probably isn’t worth it. I think the difference in academics isn’t great enough to say “Go to Sarah Lawrence for sure!” and you say that New College would be a fit for you (socially). Obviously, don’t give up yet on Sarah Lawrence. If you happen to get a significant amount more loans, then follow your heart. If not, I think you will be surprised how many benefits New College has that you never really thought of and four years from now, you may forget why you ever thought you liked Sarah over New.</p>

<p>On a side note, why do you hate south florida? It’s beautiful and exciting and diverse. It is pricy and full of traffic, but you must take the good with the bad, right?</p>

<h1>66 UCLA over ND. ND is in the middle of nowhere and it costs way more.</h1>

<p>Stevent Indiana is a great school I would go there too given your options.</p>

<p>accepted:
oregon state university
UCSD
University of Washington
Boston University</p>

<p>Wailisted:
UPenn</p>

<p>Deny:
Stanford
UC Berkeley</p>

<p>Right now i’m trying to decide between UCSD and UW (unless somehow i can get into Upenn). I’m out of state for both ucsd and uw. Uw is about $10,000 cheaper for me. Money isn’t a huge issue, but still $10,000 more per year for 4 years is a lot of money. At ucsd i’ve been accepted to ERC for computer engineering. I’m still not exactly sure if this is the type of engineering i want to major in (i’m also thinking of mechanical engineering). I’ve visited UW and i know i would be happy there, but i like ucsd a lot an think it might like it even better (i haven’t visited ucsd yet). Can anyone give me some advice? I"m really split between these 2 schools.</p>

<p>Makechilli:</p>

<p>Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate it. You’re definitely right. I’m not the biggest fan of South Florida because, first, I’ve grown up in the South, and I’m really tired of the weather. My family lives in Ft Lauderdale, so I go down all the time, and I’m just sort of tired of it. But yeah, you’re right, NCF is more close to Tampa than South Florida. I guess this is kind of a great situation to be in; either way I’ll be going to a school I’ll love.</p>

<p>Acceptances:Lehigh, Macalester, Lafayette, GWU
Rejections:Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Colgate, Carleton
Waitlisted:Smith</p>

<p>Deciding between: Lehigh, Macalester, Lafayette
Leaning towards: Lehigh will be the cheapest, but the difference is of a few thousand.I cant decide if a liberal arts education and setting will be better,thats what i thought i wanted,but lehigh is a medium sized school with a great campus.Also i got into their college of arts and sciences…(i dont even know if thats exactly the same as a liberal arts college)im international and cant visit the colleges…and in case it isnt already obvious, im undecided on my major,prolly psych,econ or smth in social studies.</p>

<p>Please help.Any input will be greatly greatly appreciated,I dont think i can live with this confusion and horrible indecision too long!!</p>

<p>Luki: Lehigh, yes, liberal art based in A&S, also has an engineering school, business school…
Lafayette: Rival of Lehigh (really) a little smaller, doesn’t have other schools as it is a LAC…
They are literally 10 minutes from each other about 2 hours from NYC.
Neither have alot going on outside of the confines of the school…Bethlehem vs. Easton…that being said, people love both…</p>

<p>No idea about Macalester…</p>

<p>Acceptances: Duke, Georgetown, McGill (Management)
Rejections: Stanford (EA), Yale, Penn, Columbia.</p>

<p>Leading towards Duke..
I’d like to major in Econ (pre-business) in order to integrate a good business school later on.
Thanks for the help</p>

<p>Accepted:
U of Rochester
SUNY Geneseo
Wellesley
Smith
Scripps</p>

<p>Waitlisted:
UChicago
Kenyon
Swarthmore</p>

<p>Deciding between: All my acceptances <em>except</em> UofR
Leaning towards: Wellesley or Geneseo… the two cheapest. Wellesley seems to have the best reputation, as well. But I loved Smith and Scripps! I could definitely imagine myself in Northampton or California.</p>

<p>Acceptances:
UT Austin
A&M College Station
Rutgers New Brunswick
Cornell
JHU</p>

<p>Rejections: n/a
Waitlisted: n/a</p>

<p>Deciding between: Cornell, JHU, Rutgers b/c of some scholarship $
Leaning towards: Cornell, but I could hate it after my visit Thursday.
I’m majoring in BioE or BME and know Hopkins is the undisputed best place to do so, but eh.</p>

<p>Advice?</p>

<p>advice is choose Hopkins. But visit first, you’ll love it!</p>

<p>Acceptances:
Northwestern
University of Illinois Urbana
University of Illinois Chicago guaranted medical program
Cornell University
Dartmouth</p>

<p>Waitlists:
Duke
JHU</p>

<p>What do you guys think…I want to end up going into medicine</p>

<p>Dartmouth has amazing medical facilities. One of the best hospitals in New England is located on Dartmouth campus (second only to Yale I think…) I’d say Dartmouth</p>

<p>I see Northwestern as more social sciences? Not entirely sure though…</p>