<p>Hi, first off, I am sorry for being obnoxious. I am about to ask you guys which school is right for me and I haven't even heard back from any of these schools. Please do understand that I take a really long time to decide things because I am extremely indecisive. I want to start thinking about which school I should attend before I am forced to go with my guts to make a deposit in May.</p>
<p>Here is the list of schools I applied to excluding my safety schools:</p>
<p>Amherst
Bowdoin
Swarthmore
Princeton
Columbia
Upenn
Brown
Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College (full scholarship and 2 years of free dorming)
NYU
JHU</p>
<p>Putting aside financial issues, which school would be the best for me?
I don't want to just go to a school for its ivy league title. I applied to the schools that I like and some of them happen to be ivy leagues. I am definitely going to double major in Art History and Business. I want to study abroad in Berlin for a year to learn German. I am outgoing, but I am not a party animal. I secretly hate school spirit. I don't really care about other aspects of college. </p>
<p>Hi, I don’t know much all these schools but I’ll help as much as I can. </p>
<p>NYU: So I’ve heard being a freshman here is tough. Big city life is new and exciting, albeit scary. NYU talks about how they have tons of freshman programs encouraging people to meet classmates but I’ve heard not very many people attend. I know a few girls who are into their second semester freshman year and they’re friends with the same people they were in HS who went to college with them. They have not branched out at all. I don’t know if this is because these particular people are cliquey or because everyone else is cliquey. I’ve also heard it could be isolating. Your friends on fb at big schools will be posting pictures from tailgates and football games or on their sprawling campuses and you won’t have that. Its a trade off though, because the city itself will be your campus. </p>
<p>Princeton/Columbia/Penn/Brown: The smartest of smart students go to these institutions. Prepare not to be the smartest student in the classroom anymore. Its a shock to some students who breeze through HS or are accustomed to outshining their peers. Not necessarily a bad thing, just a change to brace yourself for (if this applies to you). </p>
<p>Swarthmore: The one student who I know who goes there is very very notably liberal. I’m not sure that this represents the student body, though.</p>
<p>Since you want to be a business major, Penn jumps out at me. After that, NYU. And with art history as your second major, obviously NYC is a huge art center and Philadelphia Museum of Art is nothing to sneeze at.</p>