<p>If you don't get in to your top choice schools, what are you going to do?</p>
<p>Will you go to a less preferable 4 year school and graduate from there?</p>
<p>Will you go to a less preferable 4 year school and try to transfer later?</p>
<p>Will you go to a community college and try to transfer later?</p>
<p>Something else?</p>
<p>What did/will most of the people you know of do?</p>
<p>I'm writing a paper and need some input! It will be much appreciated.</p>
<p>I’ll go to a less preferable school and attempt to transfer…</p>
<p>If the student had properly chosen safety schools which s/he would be happy to attend, there is no reason why s/he would not just attend such a school if that were the only place that offered admission and sufficient financial aid.</p>
<p>Some students have community colleges (with intent to transfer to a state university later) as their safety schools.</p>
<p>The goal of this post is to find out how many people are basically accepting a denial and going somewhere else, and how many people continue to aggressively pursue their “dream” school.</p>
<p>I’d either go to a lower 4 year school and graduate from there or go to a CC and attempt to transfer after graduation.</p>
<p>If my kids don’t get in to their dream schools, they’ll attend the next favorite that accepts them. This will be done under the assumption that they stay there and graduate. Enrolling with a plan to transfer will not be allowed without dire extenuating circumstances. </p>
<p>I think the beauty of submitting multiple apps is knowing that getting into any single one will make the student happy. If the student ain’t happy with the 4th runner up, then he didn’t apply to the right schools.</p>
<p>there is always grad school. grad school is much more important than undergrad. u can always transfer.</p>
<p>I’m going to cry, eat a chocolate muffin, call the girls to re-watch Crazy Stupid Love, and then pierce my ears-</p>
<p>Oh wait. </p>
<p>I’d probably go to my state school. Don’t think I’d transfer though. I’d just think that I wasn’t meant to go to my top choices, so I’ll comfort myself with the lower tuition :)</p>
<p>I feel weird that I’m the only one so far that’s stated I’d transfer. I mean, I have one dream school, and you better believe I’m going to try anything possible to graduate from said school.</p>
<p>That is a good question. As of right now I would think I would try and stay at the less preferable school until graduation. Loyalty means a lot to me for some reason.</p>
<p>I do not really care if I do not get into my top choice. Why? Cause I would love to go to most of the schools on my list. I still got years of school after undergrad.</p>
<p>If I don’t get into my top choice, I’m going to cry, sit around, and watch TV for a night (or two). Then I’ll attend one of my safety schools, which took forever for me to pick. I fell in love with one of them, and I would actually like to go there, so I wouldn’t transfer into my top choice in the end.</p>
<p>Then I don’t get in. Go to my safety school and that’s all</p>
<p>I’m with poster #6. It’s frankly disturbing the denial that seems to be implied if one is rejected at “reach” schools. They’re called “reaches” for a reason. Time to stop fetishizing some ivy or top “ranked” school by some weekly newsmagazine. The world moves on – and the insane bulk of them don’t ever have need of a degree from one of those “name” schools. For me, an HYP alum, I can definitely tell you “been there, done that”. While I loved my school, I’m 100% certain that if I had gone to another on my list, my view on life and happiness wouldn’t be much different.</p>
<p>Quash the fetish!</p>
<p>Thanks you all for your responses, keep 'em coming!</p>
<p>S1 got in to his first choice, but if he hadn’t, he would have happily gone to #2. There’s no point in applying to places you wouldn’t be happy to go to, and if choice #1 doesn’t think you’re a good choice for them, they might know something you don’t. Why ruin the time at another school pining away for the perceived value of some place that didn’t find space for you, when you can make the place that DID , become the dream school ?</p>
<p>Am I the only one here old enough to think of Stephen Stills in this thread?
:p</p>
<p>I keep telling people, you don’t have a safety if you couldn’t go there and be happy.</p>
<p>I would just attend a less preferable school and graduate from there.</p>
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My daughter is going to attend a university I originally thought of as her safety. They really wooed her, and she chose it over others on her list. The lyric that keeps going through my head is, “But, darling, most of all, I love how you love me.”</p>