<p>I applied to the University of Kansas, since my brother went there. I knew that my brother and I had nothing alike. He had worst grades and scores than me, and he had “cooler” interests than me. He was more normal and probably would fit in at Kansas than me.</p>
<p>For my brother, he applied to the University of Kansas, because of the basketball team. </p>
<p>He didn’t apply to LeMoyne College, because too many kids in his class wanted to go there.</p>
<p>He didn’t apply to any Ivys, because he thought way too many over achieving, smart people go there.</p>
<p>He didn’t apply to any tech schools, because he thought that those schools would be full of computer nerds. </p>
<p>He applied to University of Michigan, because Michael Hart used to play on the football team. Mike went to school in Syracuse, NY and did not live far from our school.</p>
<p>He applied to all co-ed schools, because he didn’t want to look gay.</p>
<p>Weather and health issues prevented me from applying to a lot of schools on the East Coast. </p>
<p>This isn’t exactly a “I didn’t apply” but rather, a “I didn’t attend” reason --a girl at my USC presidential session from USC told me that bullets don’t hit USC people. Or people wielding guns don’t stab girls. WTH. Even though I got the Presidential, that was a factor in me not wanting to go there…</p>
<p>Because I went to a tiny high school, I only wanted to apply to large Div I east coast universities whose football and basketball games are often on ESPN (such as UNC, NCSU, Pitt, Penn State, Clemson, Wake Forest, and Georgia Tech). I also didn’t want to go anywhere that one of my 50 classmates planned to go. Lame, I know.</p>
<p>I am the youngest of four kids, so I went on a lot of college tours, starting when I was five years old. Many stupid things from those tours stuck with me. James Madison’s dorms smelled bad. UNC Greensboro had a nice student store. Richmond topped my list for a while because they provided really good lemonade to the tour on a hot summer day in 1983. But ten years later as I was deciding where to apply, my need for Div I sports prevailed and the lemonade wasn’t important enough.</p>
<p>didn’t apply to Tufts, Chicago or NYU because I thought their supplements were sort of stupid.</p>
<p>Not applying to Stanford because, of the three people I know who applied, they accepted two highly unfascinating people and rejected the coolest girl ever (… but it’s okay, 'cos she’s going to MIT).</p>
<p>… anyway, that didn’t give me a good vibe haha.</p>
<p>Not applying to UPenn because the admissions guy from the information session was a pompous snob. :)</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to Columbia because it didn’t use common app. I didn’t apply to NYU because I was too lazy to fill out the short answer essays.</p>
<p>I’m strongly considering applying to Rensselear just because one of their graduates founded Texas Instruments. And because they have a whole department for nanotechnology research.</p>
<p>I’m not applying to Georgia Tech because…it’s in Georgia. Too far south. I’m not applying to Imperial College London because I don’t think I can afford overseas student tuition. I really can’t.</p>
<p>my dad doesn’t want me to apply to some schools because of the HIV/AIDS rate in the neighbouring cities</p>
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<p>Really? Texas Instruments got me an A in every math class I’ve taken. That guy could use kudos. Between my TI84 and Derive, I’m practically a high school math ace.</p>
<p>“my dad doesn’t want me to apply to some schools because of the HIV/AIDS rate in the neighbouring cities”</p>
<p>You’ve GOT to be kidding me! Unless of course you have a habit of playing with hypodermic needles or having unsafe sex with IV drug users or gay men.</p>
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<p>i guess that means no D.C? or any city for that matter</p>
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<p>^Haha, we have a bunch of similarities! </p>
<p>When I went to the Presidential session for USC, I asked my suitemates about safety, and they were like, “It’s safe, unless you go a little too far in that direction or that direction.” I ended up getting Trustee, but, um, no thanks.</p>
<h2>And now we’re both going to Stanford, haha.</h2>
<p>I didn’t attend University of Maryland because my school is like a feeder school… high school all over again, blah blah. Too close.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to Carnegie Mellon because a kid in my school said the name with a snobby, British accent and pretended to fix his bow tie while saying it.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to Rice University because it had the latest deadline, and by the time I got to it, I was already accepted by a good number of colleges. I didn’t feel like writing yet another essay.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to Miami University after attending an information session and realizing it looked like a high-end resort (like that’s a bad thing?).</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to Texas A&M because I feel like there’s a certain type of person who goes there–very conservative and close-minded–whom I did not want to join, no matter how much scholarship money they gave me.</p>
<p>I didn’t attend UT-Austin because it WILL be like high school all over again, even though I’m from the DFW area.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to OSU because Stillwater seems so uninteresting to me (no offense, osucowboys, I have nothing against Oklahoma. I love Norman, in fact).</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to SMU or TCU because my parents could drive 30-45 minutes and come have lunch with me every day if they wanted to. No thank you. Now I’ll be 10.5 hours away instead.</p>
<p>I pulled my application from Princeton because I was too lazy to do an interview (despite doing one for Vandy later).</p>
<p>I was waitlisted at Rice, even though I didn’t send in that “personal statement” thing, and I didn’t even take SAT II’s.</p>
<p>Besides one safety in my home state which is required to accept me because of my stats, I am not applying anywhere in the South. Having lived here for a long time…just don’t ask me to explain. Nowhere in the South.</p>
<p>In a close run between RISD and WashU for my sister, I urged her to go to WashU because RISD’s mascot leads to awkward conversations. Thankfully, I wasn’t expecting her to listen to me and she obliged!</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to UPenn because the weather was depressing when I visited.</p>
<p>karabee, distance from your parents is a perfectly reasonable reason to reject a school. On that note, my parents want to me to reject a school because the tour guide identified a female-only dorm as a dorm for “females and people who identify themselves as females.”</p>
<p>pprobably beceause of the college being in a certain location haha.</p>
<p>I’m not applying to NYU.
My economics teacher had us make a list of the five colleges we want to go to, with the college profile (admissions requirements, average scores, etc.). NYU was originally on the list, but then I added Harvard so took NYU off the list to make Harvard fit. </p>
<p>I’m applying to Harvard because they sent me this viewbook and application and letter that made me feel special. :)</p>