<p>I applied to Vanderbilt because I liked their website! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>My S applied to an Ivy because of a girl he had met during a trip. He has the qualifications for this school so it is not an extreme reach. The funny part is that I also applied to my alma mater because of a girl I had met and I had hardly even heard of the school before. I was accepted and only saw the girl once or twice after that.</p>
<p>I grew up in Virginia and wouldn't apply to U.Va. or William & Mary because I figured they were just state colleges so ANYONE could get in there!</p>
<p>I didn't apply to Middlebury because they needed a graded literary analysis essay included with the application, and I didn't have any. We didn't write any in HONORS English 11 (how pathetic is that?) and because I wanted to get my applications in early, I didn't have any from AP English 12 yet. But then I ended up sending all my applications in December...</p>
<p>i didn't apply to any school lower than UMICH on the USNWR, becuase i knew i could get in... i thought i had to beat my sister who went there.. so stupid</p>
<p>all the schools had to be accredited architecture schools.. so i basically had like 10 choices? maybe less...</p>
<p>-although i think USC is 1 under UMICH, but i still applied</p>
<p>ONE of the BIGGEST reasons i don't want to go to UMICH, a lot of kids from my school get in and go there and think it's the ---- (cool). when in reality, its def. not.... i really don't get the hype for umich.. and the kids at my school they get into umich, def don't deserve it</p>
<p>didn't apply to UNC because I'm a gigantic fan of their bball team, and since I doubt I would have gotten in, I didn't want to have a grudge against the school for rejecting me.</p>
<p>Dumbest mistake I've ever made. That, UCLA, and UVA are by far my dream schools, yet I only applied to UVA. This is something I'll regret for the rest of my life :(</p>
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<p>NY has one of the lowest, if not the lowest crime rate for cities of over 1,000,000 people. Its crime rate is even lower than the national average. (city-data.com)</p>
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i didn't apply to any school lower than UMICH on the USNWR, becuase i knew i could get in...
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
-Groucho Marx</p>
<p>I didn't apply to UC Berkeley because I thought just the start of the application was horribly complicated (something to do with a PIN is all I remember).</p>
<p>I didn't apply to Wisconsin-Madison because this girl from my school (who is very nice) applied there, and I don't want to see anyone from my high school in college, I'm done with high school. (Dumb, dumb, dumb me.)</p>
<p>I didn't apply to UNC Chapel Hill because I figured I already had one application in the NC area (Duke). Also, I didn't want to do their essay questions. I filled out the whole form and got the teacher's recs and everything but dumped the whole app because of the essays. Again, stupid. :D</p>
<p>I didn't apply for Harvard and Princeton because I had a vision in my head of the admissions committee pulling out my file, laughing hysterically and posting it online for everyone to jeer at. LOL.</p>
<p>I (almost) didn't apply for Dartmouth because I saw the videos on it at theU.com and they freaked me out: the hardcore winters and the drinking. Granted, I've survived the coldest of cold winters before, so I really shouldn't have cared so much about that...</p>
<p>oh yea, I didnt apply to UNC Chapel Hill because like 4 years ago I read "Kiss the Girls" & it was set there...the killer guy would walk around the campus...and right then I said "uh-uh, never applying there"...
lol...</p>
<p>I didn't apply to MIT or CMU because I completely bombed the SAT's and was to lazy to ever take the SAT IIs. </p>
<p>Probably the worst mistake of my life... oh well. There's always grad school :).</p>
<p>Haven't applied yet, but I'm loving Bard mostly because I love the idea of Anna from Bard St. applying to Bard in Annadale-on-the-Hudson :]</p>
<p>i wound up not applying to college because i was scared of any type of rejection...so i didnt get rejected anywhere :)</p>
<p>kidding i'm a junior...and i will be applying to ND because its the best ever</p>
<p>i didnt apply to ucla or berkeley because my scores/ gpa cant compete with the other asians who are smarter</p>
<p>i applied to BC just because i only applied to 5 colleges and i really thought i needed an extra college. irony in this story is, im attending BC. I also didn't apply to georgetown because my college advisor persuaded me that georgetown didn't like the high school i attended. In the end, i probably would've gone to BC, but who knows?</p>
<p>Applied to NYU because application was free. Too bad it still costs 50k/yr to attend.</p>
<p>Didn't apply to Tufts because I hate the name....</p>
<p>Didn't apply to WUstL because Missouri sounds like "misery"....
Didn't apply to Columbia because it was utterly filthy when I visited....
Didn't apply to Drew because the admissions office looked like Norman Bates from Psycho's house....
Didn't apply to Penn because it is part 2 to my high school.....
Didn't apply to Vassar because in search of lunch, my dad and I encountered a store specializing in fairy clothing....</p>
<p>Applied to NYU because I had really delicious coffee in the neighborhood....
Applied to Yale because I am insane....
Applied to Boston College despite the fact that a nun working the desk glared at me for not knowing it was Holy Thursday....
Applied to Emory cause it looked pretty on Google Earth.....
Applied to Northwestern because I know a couple gorgeous guys who go there.....</p>
<p>Wow I was just ridiculously honest. There you have it.</p>
<p>i like your reasons fringey lol</p>
<p>Hahah I could probably think of some more truly ridiculous ones, and I will.</p>
<p>For instance, I applied to Brown because some current students took me out to lunch when I visitied... the real clincher was that the food was good.</p>
<p>I also didn't apply to Cornell because the name annoys me.</p>
<p>I visited Harvard for no reason at all except the fact that one of the libraries has my last name on it (not my family, I don't think) and I wanted to be really obnoxious in the tour group, telling them about it. Plus our plane didn't leave Boston for several hours and we had time to kill.</p>
<p>I applied for some UCs even though I didn't meet the A-G thingymajig requirements. 300 bucks down the drain.</p>