<p>Columbia and NYU. It was too far and it was unlikely that I'd go. Also, probably Pepperdine, because it's such a nice school and it would be cool to go check it out and stuff like that.</p>
<p>Amherst, Williams, NYU, and Columbia U instead of Yale...
also UChicago instead of Northwestern...</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Washington and Lee, Wake Forest...</p>
<p>im really happy tho</p>
<p>I regret not applying to:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Pomona
Cornell ILR
UNC-CH
UVA
Columbia
Amherst</p>
<p>...but then again I don't regret applying anywhere, and these extra schools would have been way too heavy a load and made the final choice even more tough.</p>
<p>I regret that many LACs did not have the program i wanted and therefore did not fit what i needed to apply....since I really like the atmosphere and they would have made my match section a lot better.</p>
<p>i regret not applying to the cal states. you didn't even have to write an essay. now that i didn't get into any of the schools i wanted to go to and the schools i got into are too expensive, i regret not having any of those as my safety schools.</p>
<p>UCB and UCLA.</p>
<p>Yale maybe as a "see if I could get in."</p>
<p>No regrets, applied to everything I wanted, anything else I dont care about</p>
<p>i regret not applying to santa clara university.....</p>
<p>princeton for fun</p>
<p>Out of high school: dartmouth and penn. I remember sitting on a train during Columbia's orientation and thinking why didnt I apply.</p>
<p>Oh well, transferred to Dartmouth and loved it.</p>
<p>i have a rather long list to which i wish i had applied...</p>
<p>vassar, brown ED (did RD and got waitlisted), wake forest, oberlin, uconn, maybe yale and maybe columbia, swarthmore, brandeis... i guess that's it.</p>
<p>U Penn. I REALLY wish i applied there.</p>
<p>K, but NO REGRETS EVERYONE!!!</p>
<p>Why is it so important for some of you to apply to schools that you wouldn't attend even if you were accepted? Is it just for the status or prestige? Is it just to say that you were accepted to a whole bunch of schools?</p>
<p>I don't understand the mindset. Please explain.</p>
<p>Funny thing, gsp, I thought about that same question when I was considering applying to Stanford. I concluded that I wanted to apply there for the ego.trip, especially if I got accepted.</p>
<p>So I decided not to apply. :) Self-confidence teetering on arrogance is not appreciated by anyone and I didn't want to become a bighead. Besides, the Mom laid down the iron fist on college app fees ("Too expensive! Do you still want those pants you saw @ the mall or what?!") as it got pretty expensive, even though I only applied to 5 schools that required the processing fee.</p>
<p>USC
UCLA
NYU
BU
UCBerkeley</p>
<p>..sighs.. all i applied to were safety schools.. i got accepted to all of them but 5/7 don't even have my major. I'm so stupid.</p>
<p>I regret not applying to Macalester (great school and close to home) and Oberlin (another good school, maybe my bad visit was a fluke...).</p>
<p>Schools I should NOT have applied to-</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Penn</p>
<p>Schools I should have applied to instead
MIT
Brown
Swarthmore</p>
<p>Thankfully though, it doesnt matter now :)</p>
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Why is it so important for some of you to apply to schools that you wouldn't attend even if you were accepted? Is it just for the status or prestige? Is it just to say that you were accepted to a whole bunch of schools?</p>
<p>I don't understand the mindset. Please explain.
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<p>Actually for a lot of people, you may think you actually won't attend if you get accepted, but when you DO happen to get accepted, it's a different story. Many people visit these schools they never thought they would go to (but they got accepted and decided to check it out before removing it from their list of possible choices) and ended up loving the school. You never know what could happen. The school you apply to without thinking initially about it, may be the right school for you.</p>