<p>TUFTS - Who wants to go to a school with an inferiority complex?
SWARTHMORE - Academics are too intense, plus it’s too small
KENYON - Too much greek life on so small a campus
ALL RELIGIOUSLY AFFILIATED SCHOOLS - Too conservative
GEORGETOWN - Because as much as it pretends it’s not Catholic, we all know it is
ALL WOMEN’S COLLEGES - Males are necessary in life and sanity
STANFORD - Rather go to Berkeley, too intense
MIDDLEBURY - Too intense
CHAPMAN U - My ex-safety school which is too conservative</p>
<p>(Not quite the main reasons, but they were enough to be a reason)
Yale - hates my school for regular decision round
Northwestern - didn’t know much about it; name sounds too much related to Northeastern
Georgetown - in Atlanta
NYU - lack of real campus and heard it gave bad financial aid
Vanderbuilt/Vassar/schools starting with ‘V’ - Don’t know…seems like I may have something against schools that start with V lol
Carnegie Mellon - heard it had bad financial aid…and lol…subtly reminds me of a melon…
Bowdoin/Swarthmore/Colgate/Small liberal arts schools - not my cup of tea</p>
<p>As a junior, from my understanding I’m not applying to:
NYU- My chances of acceptance may have been low, but lost interest in school when I never recieved mail after signing up for mailing list on New Years Eve night.
BU- Lack of campus, not the best undergraduate experience probably
South- Most southern schools I do not have interest in. Due to climate etc… I mean I have interest in California universities which may have a similar climate. Though if I would like to experience snow, I could drive to near by mountains. There is also the Pacific Ocean, and diverse climate.</p>
<p>Ooo forgot one:
Cornell–> the fact that it’s the ivy with the highest suicide rate is not that attractive and like Dartmouth…too isolated (beautiful, yet creepy).</p>
<p>Wellesley-about to apply. But then I realized i’m obsessed with men : ).
William and Mary-too lazy to send in a creative “out of the box” supp.
U Washington- my dad said he wouldn’t pay for it.</p>
<p>Won’t go anywhere tiny, outside a city, or inside New England. That scythed a HUGE number. My reasoning is the hell I went through after transferring from my large (4000ish) public school in IL to a small, snobby (<400) school in MA. I’m convinced New Englanders don’t know there are states west of NY and east of CA, nor anything at all south of NJ. I’d turn down Yale if they begged me.</p>
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<li>any school not in or very near to a city</li>
<li>any school where you need a car to get off campus and have fun</li>
<li>any school not on the east coast (too far from home for me)</li>
<li>any school without a decent financial aid rating / any school where I can’t get merit aid</li>
<li>all but one Ivy league school, for the heck of it, since I’d get a full ride if I did get in (not sure which one because I don’t really like any of them… they just don’t fit what I want)</li>
<li>any religiously-affiliated school (I’m an atheist)</li>
<li>any in state school (I might have to apply to College Park because it would be a financial safety, but, ugh)</li>
<li>any school in a one hour radius (namely University of Delaware, UMBC, and Towson)</li>
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<p>I’m not applying to Oxford.
In Britain, we have this stupid tradition where you can only apply to one of the top two universities - you can’t apply to both Oxford and Cambridge. It’s like having to choose between applying to Harvard and Stanford, or something.</p>
<p>Stanford-- Too intense! Plus, I doubt that I would have gotten in. I’m pretty well-rounded, but not THAT well-rounded. One of the most college-obsessed people I know applied to Stanford and was rejected, and she was MUCH better than me.
Haverford-- Honestly, I’m not sure. It was on my list up until the day the application was due, and I just chose not to submit mine. I just felt like it wasn’t quite right.
St. Olaf’s: I would rather just go to Carleton!
Lewis and Clark: Weird campus. Pretty, but it feels so removed from Portland and that was part of the appeal for me (When there last, I visited Powell’s three times in two days. Portland is lovely )
UC’s: Horrible financial aid for out-of-staters. Both my parents went to UC’s, but they were okay with me not applying. I still kinda wish I went for Berkeley, but whatever.</p>
<p>Stanford- Not enough time. I’m a procrastinator. Fail.
MIT- The campus didn’t feel very welcoming enough.
Any college without a mountain nearby for skiing/snowboarding or a rink for ice skating.</p>
<p>Yeshiva University and Cooper Union are both in Manhattan.</p>
<p>When I was applying to schools I didn’t apply to any schools not on the East Coast (actually, I didn’t apply to any schools north of Washington, D.C.) because they were too far. The majority of the schools I applied to were in-state. I didn’t apply to any Ivies because I knew I couldn’t afford them, and I saw no point in teasing myself if I got into Columbia but couldn’t go because my family couldn’t afford our ridiculous “expected family contribution”</p>
<p>Looking back, I regret not applying to a wider range of colleges, including some top liberal arts colleges (especially women’s colleges) in the Northeast. I would’ve really loved to go to a place like Amherst, Williams, Smith, or Wellesley.</p>
<p>It’s okay, because I loved the college I did go to and I’m earning my Ph.D at a top university, the university that was my “dream school” when I was in undergrad. Now I’m just focusing at teaching at one of those top liberal arts colleges in the Northeast. I’m realizing that I’d also really love to teach at a place like Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Wellesley, etc.</p>
<p>I always get annoyed when girls completely rule out women’s colleges, but that’s because I went to one and it was great, and most of the reasons I see for it are stupid. I respect a girl who says “I want to go to college and find a husband” or “Guys are just a lot of fun to be around” a lot more than one who says something dumb like “Women are catty and evil, and I don’t want to be around that” or “I need different perspectives in the classroom”.</p>
Wellesley chicks get with guys (both as hookups and as boyfriends) at a pretty high rate compared to girls from other [coed] colleges–they go to other Boston-area college parties a lot.</p>
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