i got too cocky when i was applying and i only applied to 4 good schools and 4 safeties.... 3 good schools rejected me (UCberkeley, UCLA, Columbia) now i am stuck with choosing NYU or safeties (Binghamton, Stony Brook, Queens, Baruch *all NY pub colleges*) NYU is a very good school but its toooooooo damn expensive!!! so which one should i choose? any advice? *panic mode*
Its all good, I got into almost every college I applied to, sans UT (out of state bastards)... but i still ended doing a year and a half at community college and realized that the money saved was DEFINITELY worth it...
You think that's bad, try: 1. Applying to an optometry school 2. Waiting 5 months for the school to give you a response 3. The school giving you alternate status in case someone drops 4. Waiting out the whole summer hoping someone drops 5. Finally getting a letter in August saying that there aren't any more spots so you have to reapply 6. Finding out a couple of weeks later that someone DID drop but they were too lazy to add anyone 7. Reapply to the same school early (i.e. october) 8. And still waiting for them even though you were on the waiting list for the year before
I knew their boots were good, but I didn't know they had an education system on making them. Good luck with your other schools. I've been bouncing around for years, till I found my love for the medical industry. Currently in EMS, and hoping to attend Med School in fall of '08.
They say it's the easiest Ivy to get into, but the hardest to get out of. However, that really depends on which of the 7 schools you're applying to. It's tougher to get into Cornell's state schools when applying from out of state (including ILR, where I went), as the majority of students in those schools are obviously from NY. And yes, they're all obnoxious, too. NYU is cool and all, but the lack of a real campus sucks. It's still the best school on your list, though. SUNY-Binghamton is supposed to pretty good, too (although Binghamton itself sucks).
Word of advice: Don't use "mad excited" in your verbage when applying. Higher Institutions tend to frown on that...
I would love to go to NYU. That sucks, but it could be worse. I graduated high school a year early, the whole time my parents telling me to just focus on school and they have college covered. I applied and got accepted to the college I wanted to go to, I was SO excited. Then a month before classes start, parents tell me they are NOT paying for college after all. Too late to apply for financial aid, though I doubt I would get it anyways considering my dad pulled in $175,000 that year. So, I wait til next semester, apply to a community college and get on a payment plan that my mother says they will pay for. Guess what? 2 months into the semester I have to drop out, because again my parents failed to live up to their promise. I worked hard to graduate early, so I could get a head start on college. And here I am, almost a year later, trying to save money to put myself through school.
dunno. i feel you on this one. i applied to Princeton and UT. my Princeton app never made it out the door of my HS counselor's office. i got "stuck" at UT - and four years later, i'm graduating. i had a pretty good time here, got to explore more curriculum than i would have at Princeton. if you're that concerned about the school's name, don't worry - you can still transfer, or even better, get a master's at a prestigious place. good luck.
If you don't want to go anywhere you got accepted to, take a year off, start over, and apply to more places you actually would go. Or better yet, go to one of your backups, make good grades, and transfer out at the end of the year.
If you want to get in any good school and are willing to work hard for it, put in 2 damn good years at community college and transfer up. It's not easy, but admissions know it isn't so you're rewarded in kind.
two years after college, it doesn't really matter where you went. It matters more what you do in that two year time period. The only thing my alma mater does for me is a few bragging rights that they got in the final four (Hoya Saxa). As far as employers go, only the lazy ones will pick applicants based on schools and that's an indication that they aren't a very good company. In cases like that, a good school may get you a job, but it might not be a very good one to work at if they treat you like a statistic instead of an individual.
I think youre point may be that you can get any type of job you want when graduating from any school. But there are plenty of good employers out there who only hire out of certain schools...not from laziness, but from effectiveness. EDIT: Also, I think you're choice is pretty easy. Go to NYU. Yes, you may be able to save a crapload of money going to the other schools. But coming out of NYU, with a good degree, you'll be able to get any number of ridiculously high paying jobs in the city coming out of school. Now, with NYC's cost of living, it might still be a while to pay off some of those loans, but you'll have an enormous head-start on a successful career.
Go to one of the schools, NYU if you can afford it (the better the school you're coming from, the better your chances are of getting accepted by other schools), and apply for transfers after your first year or two. In your second round, try not to pick all the schools with the highest rejection rates. Everyone applies to Berkeley and Columbia, and even UCLA. I'm surprised you didn't send one off to Harvard while you were at it. You seem to be partial to New York and California, which I suppose is part of the problem. Consider if you can handle the Midwest or South, where elite schools have smaller applicant pools and lower rejection rates. After your first year at NYU (or wherever), you may well find that you love it and don't want to go anywhere. NYU isn't too bad. It may be expensive as all-get-out, but you can get loans to cover it.
That sounds like something i should have said in my HS graduation speech, Im saving this and saying it to my unborn kids in about 25 years when they graduate but I will add the part "I hope you are smart enough to get a scholarship or your journey will be a very ardous one"
