<p>yeah actually we were in DC when my dad read the article; he got freaked out when we were on the subway honestly…</p>
<p>The campus seemed to eat my soul. I couldn’t find my soul till next tuesday and then only half- bitten remains. took me a year to recuperate.</p>
<p>My father bullied me out of applying to what he perceived were “second rate schools,” e.g. Brown, Georgetown, full ride at the City University.</p>
<p>I am not applying to one school partially because I got the feeling that they were very politically correct, and thus would be… less than receptive to my like of George Carlin books. :P</p>
<p>Sorry to double-post, but I thought of two more reasons that qualify.
I’m probably going to apply to one school solely because of the mail they sent me. (In my defense, it involved cheetahs with jetpacks and giraffes with stilts, and was awesomely silly. :P)
And I’m interested in another school because an admissions officer contacted me online (on *****), and I knew that they had personally looked at my profile because they referenced written responses that I had put on there. Plus they said “lol”, which also falls under the awesomely silly category. That is a major plus is my book.</p>
<p>i wont apply to any schools that have more than 10% african american students. funny because i am african american. contrastingly i won’t apply anywhere in vermont or new hamsphire because there are too many caucasian.</p>
<p>i have nothing against my race.</p>
<p>i wont apply to any schools that are not in the northeast or midwest because frankly i hate it when it is more than 75 degrees out.</p>
<p>i wont apply anywhere in pennsylvania because commercials keep emphasizing the Amish Country.
i wont apply to a school that doesnt have a body of water as border. </p>
<p>it’s odd and it really limits my choices because i have average grades.</p>
<p>Not applying to UCLA because someone picked up their cell phone and greeted their friend with “What up, gangster boy?” or something like that, while I was on campus</p>
<p>Applying to USC because I overheard someone say, “Why would I be a teddy bear(UCLA Bruins) when I could be a fine ass 300 warrior(USC Trojans)?”</p>
<p>Might not apply to Caltech because we went into an occupied dorm room and someone was playing World of Warcraft on his computer.</p>
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<p>HAHA, favorite.</p>
<p>Nice to see this thread still alive :-)</p>
<p>“My daughter didn’t apply to Northeastern because too many moms on the tour had designer handbags.”
lmao, this is my reason for not applying, even though i have a legacy through my mom & it would be my safety. plus, on the tour i took, i was dressed in sweats while literally every single other person was dressed in some sort of designer labels. so, i kind of felt like a hobo :|</p>
<p>i love the twilight-dartmouth comment, as well :P</p>
<p>I’m not applying to USC because I have a UCLA sweatshirt and it was expensive, and I don’t want to keep it in my closet forever.</p>
<p>I’m not applying to Yale because of Bush.</p>
<p>I’m not applying to Cornell because it’s supposedly the easiest Ivy, and I didn’t want to seem inferior.</p>
<p>I’m not applying to University of Maryland because my aunt’s family lives in Maryland.</p>
<p>I almost don’t want to apply to Johns Hopkins because of the aforementioned aunt.</p>
<p>I don’t want to apply to the Claremont colleges because they’re in the valley, and it’s hot in the valley.</p>
<p>:/</p>
<p>^^I’m impressed. Six dumb, funny reasons. Thanks. LOL</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to Georgetown because their website is awful. Hard to find stuff.</p>
<p>(And this is coming from someone who’s going to major in IR and likes foreign service stuff)</p>
<p>I almost applied to USC, even though it’s totally not my type of school, because their website has a section where every single degree offering is listed in one big list. I thought that was so friggin sweet.</p>
<p>Son declined Berkeley because it was ‘too hilly.’ </p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz had ‘too many trees’ and reminded him too much of summer camp experiences in the woods of MN (positive experiences, or so I thought) and ‘places we made him go during summer vacations (aka National Parks)’. </p>
<p>And to think, he has lived his whole life in the Rocky Mtn region.</p>
<p>Not gonna apply to UPenn because I dont wanna spend my whole life explaining to people that it’s not PennState.</p>
<p>Not gonna apply to Cornell because someone I hate in HS is applying there.</p>
<p>Applying to Columbia simply because it’s in the same state as Cornell plus it’s better than Cornell.</p>
<p>Not applying to Stanford because their supplement is long and pretentious</p>
<p>Not applying to Princeton because I don’t want to explain what I do during the summer</p>
<p>Not applying to Dartmouth because they changed their mascot for PC reasons</p>
<p>Not applying to MIT because they hate prep school kids(and white males)</p>
<p>Applying to Johns Hopkins because Dr. House went there (he was later expelled, but still).</p>
<p>Not applying to Tufts because it just… sounds gross…</p>
<p>^Haha I thought about that too. Reminds me of something from Dr. Suess. But I’m still applying though :P</p>
<p>Not applying to UVA because blue and orange is one of the ugliest color combinations I’ve heard of.</p>