<p>Or, for not seniors (aka: lame-o), why are you choosing the top 5 to apply to?</p>
<p>I always hear "MIT!" why? "Because it's MIT!!!"</p>
<p>No, seriously, why?</p>
<p>I’m going to UC Berkeley because it has a top notch EECS program and very strong engineering department.</p>
<p>It is also much cheaper than colleges on the east coast so I can afford it without parental assistance.</p>
<p>I was fairly interested in MIT, but I definitely like Cal’s environment and engineering department.</p>
<p>My top 5?</p>
<p>MIT
Harvard
Stanford
Carnegie Mellon
Princeton</p>
<p>I’m choosing these 5 because after comparing their respective computer science and computer engineering programs, I’m very impressed,</p>
<p>I chose my top five based solely on where I think I’ll be happiest and most enjoy those four years of my life. It’s not that academics aren’t important to me, just that I believe you can get a good education (practically) anywhere.</p>
<p>"I always hear “MIT!” why? “Because it’s MIT!!!”</p>
<p>I can’t stand this. I go to boarding school, so there’s so much focus on going to name-brand colleges. My friend is obsessed with going to an Ivy (she won’t get into any of them, but that’s another story), and when I asked her why she wanted to go to one, she literally couldn’t give me any reason.</p>
<p>But like, not the environment or what it might mean to you? anything else besides ranking?</p>
<p>Like, okay, I’m choosing Carnegie Mellon but it was at first just because of how quirky it sounded, the bagpipe scholarship was how I first heard of it when searching “weird scholarships”. Then it was a goal because of the robotics and theater at the same damn place and I’m a huge theater dork and into robotics. What about the computer/engineering? Any interesting research you heard of? Like [YouTube</a> - Robots that walk on water](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBU9ptF-_sU]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBU9ptF-_sU) when I heard of that I thought it’d be cool to do something similar while there in research. Also the play Pippin was first premiered there and the school just kept coming up in whatever I was interested in. No one I know actually recognizes the name besides some counselor so I didn’t do it for bragging. Also I was looking at UT but it’s just an incredibly fun school and Austin is great yet I don’t like the size. Or RPI because of how nerdy everyone was, I mean, comic books and all that oddness, goofy dorks sort of, and then the theater club was small but very close-knit.</p>
<p>I guess I’m just wondering if anything went into your college decisions besides ranking/prestige.</p>
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<p>Waseda University: Great acting/film program. Probably one of the best in Japan (where it’s located). It’s also in TOKYO :D</p>
<p>Meiji University and Temple University in Japan: Located in Japan, and I can major in Japanese… in Tokyo.</p>
<p>Dartmouth: Great Japanese program.</p>
<p>Middlebury College: Great Japanese and Creative Writing programs.</p>
<p>Well, it looks like I’m going to Harvard. I “chose” it because my parents made me. They can save a ton of money.I think it patently unfair and wish I had been rejected.</p>
<p>I’m going to Indiana University because it’s highly reputable with video-journalism and business, is close to and well regarded in Chicago (where I plan to live), has one of the nation’s biggest greek systems, has the most support services of everywhere I visited, is in a cool town and has a big, active (and pretty) campus, isn’t THAT expensive compared to other state schools, anddddd because it’s a huge party school and promises to be a hell of a good time.</p>
<p>^ Millancad I can’t tell if you’re kidding?</p>
<p>@Millancad, that sucks. I never want my parents to force me to go to a college that’s not my choosing. If that happens, I’ll gladly disobey.</p>
<p>I chose my school because I’m dirt poor and I can’t afford to go anywhere else.</p>
<p>“Well, it looks like I’m going to Harvard. I “chose” it because my parents made me. They can save a ton of money.I think it patently unfair and wish I had been rejected.”</p>
<p>Seriously? That sucks.</p>
<p>@ Millancad: Same thing happened to my cousin…even though they can afford it w/o any loans (very rich) but her mom forced her to go to Princeton 
B/c of the prestige and other perks that come along with it apparently… (she got into 12 schools).</p>
<p>I will be attending the University of Iowa and technically it’s my dream school. Everything I was looking for plus more in a university and college town is offered at the University of Iowa. Even better knowing that at least for my freshmen year I will not be going into debt. I couldn’t ask for more, very excited.</p>
<p>I wish somebody would force me to go to an Ivy.</p>