<p>...if Yale hadn't accepted you but all the rest had.</p>
<p>My second choice was a wonderful university that I know I would have thrived at and fallen in love with just like Yale. The name is irrelevant. I’d assume the same of most people who were accepted at Yale.</p>
<p>Posters: don’t let this thread slide into a “Yale is better than __ college and that’s why I chose Yale”</p>
<p>Can I post since this actually did happen to me? :)</p>
<p>I would be cryptic like T26E4, but I think my location makes it obvious. I went with one of my two other top 3’s. It’s actually rather dissimilar to Yale and maybe too techy for my own good, but I like the esprit de corps.</p>
<p>Either Wesleyan or Columbia.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>the school I would have been attending up until last Friday when I got the WL call, Bowdoin</p>
<p>There was a period of my life (coincidentally preceding the date SCEA results were due out :p) when I ardently believed I would not be getting into Yale and would have to consider other options.</p>
<p>During that time I told myself I was going to Columbia unless by some miracle I got into Harvard.</p>
<p>Either Princeton or Columbia. There would have been an outside shot at a full ride at the U of Minnesota though.</p>
<p>The University of Texas at Austin. haha.</p>
<p>Had I been accepted to MIT, I would have chosen there
Of the ones that did accept me, I would have chosen UChicago</p>
<p>Stanford. It was so painful turning it down for Yale (I love both so much).</p>
<p>Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service (turning down Brown & UPenn, which, with hindsight, would probably have been a mistake).</p>