<p>diontech, from where to where did you go?
I wonder if everyone feels that way about their own state’s schools… because in my mind I would think people in NY, NC, and such would at least feel content going in state. Or maybe the grass is just always greener on the other side</p>
<p>i liked UNC, I always said it would be my first choice if it were out of state haha.</p>
<p>If I had gotten into the honors program I definitely would have considered it.</p>
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<p>BU to Temple. I wanted to get the heck out of PA. I realized I loved Philly too much to leave.</p>
<p>Ermm… but the PEOPLE who go to UGA are by far different from those who go to (or even those who are accepted by) Vanderbilt… trust me. I know like half of the incoming UGA freshman class.</p>
<p>this thread got boring… ;)</p>
<p>an education from Duke is equivalent to one from Florida State!!!</p>
<p>I said a few pages back that I would never go to a public school coz I’m an international student needing aid. Public schools don’t really give much aid. I was not trying to be elitist.</p>
<p>I know lots of kids at my school would go to UGA. Also, my parents would LOVE for me to go to UGA. It’s not that they love the dawgs, they love the $$$. Hope is a great thing, but why should I have to go somewhere for 4 years which I would hate? I would only go there if I wasn’t getting enough aid from other schools. I also can’t see myself going to another Georgia school except Emory. I’m not a math or science person, so Tech is out. I also am not a fan of big schools, there aren’t much LAC’s in Georgia.</p>
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<p>College Park is a pretty good school and I’d kill to NOT go there. I think there’s something to be said for many students about staying in state. I think my only exception would be California - California is such a huge state that my moving from Maryland to any of my prospective schools could be just as different and just as far as moving from one part of California to another. Plus, the UC schools do show some variety.</p>
<p>Sorry, I know there was a poorly constructed sentence in there. Forgive me.</p>
<p>I dont want to go to college park either. I live 20 minutes away an just have never liked it. My parents love the in-state tution but since I was little I could never see myself attending.</p>
<p>I think ALL parents love the in- state tuition.</p>
<p>i would never go to a school like bob jones, and basically any fundamentalist christian college. they are just way to strict. also to be honest schools that are very low ranking. Even though its a great school, i wouldnt want to go to oberlin probably, or any other extremely liberal school. i’m not very conservative, but i have heard that conservatives are not well liked at oberlin.</p>
<p>I would never attend a Christian “Fundie” school, such as Bob Jones, Liberty, or Pensacola. I’m an atheist, and find all of their rules and restrictions laughable. It’s quite fun to peruse their websites and just laugh.</p>
<p>Also, I wouldn’t attend Suffolk County Community College, Hofstra, or New Paltz. It seems as if half of my class is applying to at least one of those, if not all three. I’d prefer to ditch nearly 70% of my class in college, not spend another four years with them. Shame about New Paltz, though. I was actually considering it until I saw the swarm of students around the New Paltz table at my school’s college fair.</p>
<p>For-profit and tech/careers schools are a definite no for me as well. Also online schools. I want to actually learn and be in academic environment, not an environment with easier academics than my high school. </p>
<p>I dislike huge schools too, due to lectures. I don’t want classes with hundreds of students and a TA teaching. All of the colleges that I am applying to have a couple thousand of students total, which, in my opinion, is awesome. =)</p>
<p>The University of Tennessee at Knoxville is awful, awful, awful for so many, many, many reasons. Among them:
- All the horrible people in my high school are applying there
- The campus is ugly, ugly, ugly (I live in K-Town and actually have to look at it)
- No one can get the classes that they need. Many bright people have had to drop out after six years of being unable to take required courses.
- The social life revolves around football and drinking
- The undergraduates hardly ever see their professors
- Applicants, students, and alumni agree: the bureaucracy is unbearable
- The dorms aren’t air-conditioned
- Three of the Tennessee Vols’ star football players participated in an armed robbery a few days ago
- Everybody’s a Republican. Even the binge drinkers.
- All departments except business and athletics are underfunded and overcrowded</p>
<p>I hate UT so much.</p>
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<p>This shouldn’t be too surprising. Most binge drinking at traditional colleges occurs at fraternity houses, and most people in fraternities are Republicans, particularly in the South.</p>
<p>WUSTL: they’re tree killers (think about it… how much paper could have been saved if they sent less mail…)</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon. The humanities and social sciences don’t even exist there. And the dorms are crappy. And even worse, some of them are over a mile and a half from campus. I stayed in a dorm that would have been perfectly positioned had I been attending THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH.</p>
<p>I would never go to a college in Alaska (more specifically, University of Alaska Anchorage). Alaska is where I’ve lived all my life (until going to college, out-of-state fortunately)…I hate commuter schools…no div. I basketball/football, no school spirit, most kids from home go there, lame programs, terrible website, limited course selection, etc. </p>
<p>I am also not a fan of religiously-affiliated schools, schools from the Deep South or the Great Plains states, schools without div. I basketball/football or big school spirit, or really small schools with limited major selection among other criteria.</p>
<p>UNC. There’s just something about the place that makes me want to scream when people ask me why I didn’t apply. Maybe because everyone here thinks it’s better than Harvard.
East Carolina. The school for those who don’t have the grades to get into any other school in NC. I always want to laugh when people say they are going there because it is just a school that no one takes seriously. at all.</p>
<p>Both of these are also wayyy too close to home, which probably adds fuel to my fire :)</p>
<p>Idk if anyone has mentioned yet, but no Sacred Heart?!?!
I also wouldn’t attend any school on L.I…they all suck–except Stony Brook (You Cali kids wanna talk about Chinese schools?)
-No SUNYs (Maybe Bing or Buff if I had to)
-No midwestern schools
-No southern schools ('cept UF and UMiami)
-No lower-tier school …no matter how much cred you give them
-No schools in the absolute middle of nowhere
-No LAC
-NO HIPPIE/TREE-HUGGER SCHOOLS. NO. NO. NO.
-No Christian fundamentalist school </p>
<p>Despite this list, I do have plenty of schools I’d like to attend :P</p>
<p>U Alabama anyone?</p>