Where Do You Want To Go To College?

Well, I'm enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte now, and hopefully will transfer to UNC at Chapel Hill or NC State or Duke next Fall. Hard to say, I'm happy, though. No desire to go anywhere else.

I'm declaring International Business sometime this next week, gonna travel to Korea to study at Ajou University and intern at an investment company. Woo.

I attend Northern State University (of South Dakota), and I'm almost done with my first year (few weeks left). NSU is the only college I applied to. It's the only college I've ever wanted to attend my whole life...and it's about 40 miles outside where I've lived my whole life.

Yay for dreaming big, I guess?

Yay for dreaming big, I guess?

At least you know what you want to do with your life =/.

I'm in the Community College of Rhode Island to fulfill my general requirements. Once that's outta the way, I'll be moving on to the Rhode Island College to receive my teaching degree, and from then, I'll start teaching high school English at Cumberland High School; probably at sophomore or junior-level.

wait, what? Isn't college you do before uni?

For us Americans, college is university.. sort of? 'College' is the term for 'school in which you want to go to after high school' which could be a college or a university.

In the UK college is the general term for the study you do after compulsory education but prior to university, and it lasts two years.

As for me, I wanted to go to Aston University (since the age of 15), and that's where I went.

wait, what? Isn't college you do before uni?

University usually refers to the whole institution. There can be colleges of the different areas in which you study here in the US. For example, at Cornell, there's a college of engineering, arts and sciences, etc.

At least you know what you want to do with your life =/.

I know right? I moved from Veterinary Medicine to Computing and Informatics and now I think I'm settling with International Business.

Decisions, decisions...

Not Harvard

UF (University of Florida) - Accepted (No surprise) Simlar to above, but majority of friends are going here. Decent school, although it sucks for the field I wanna go into, Computer Science. Huge student population is a turnoff.

I go to UF. Computer Science isn't that bad... I'm a minor. The profs are good but the classes are large. Discussions are useless, don't bother going. (It is one of the only departments with optional attendance at discussion sessions, so I guess it evens out.)

The large student body isn't something that bad... Yeah, the line can get kinda long at restaurants around lunchtime, but aside from crowded-ish class changes in the very center of campus, it's not a big deal. You still run into the people you know a lot, because most of the core classes are in the same area (heck, most classes are in an area smaller than colleges with a tenth of the students). Plus there are literally hundreds of clubs and groups to get into if you want a smaller situation, and the Honors program for small, interesting classes. (It sounds like you'd get into Honors easily, judging from the rest of your colleges.) You have more to worry about with the large numbers of sorostitutes looking for their MRS degrees and the spoiled frat boys doing keg stands than the large classes. =P

Also, I could be wrong but I heard our Digital Arts and Sciences was pretty good... o_O But idk, most people I know are pure software. Hardware program is better... that's through Electrical Engineering, though you take the core software classes as well.

Anyway, I'm a chem major. I personally hate most of the department... It's mostly pre-meds. All they want to do is memorize and regurgitate and get an A, not actually learn. Ick. They put in a lot of new sections and courses for actual chem majors, but after I had already taken the course. x_x I have had some pretty good teachers, though. I really love the physics and math departments, though, and I'm minoring in those too.

One thing about UF is that we are going through HUGE budget cuts, so whole programs are disappearing... It's all the state's fault, but we have to take the bad cuts anyway. T_T


I got in to Northwestern, where I applied because of their Interdisciplinary Science Program, which is pretty selective... they only accept 20 people a year. (I got in.) I only applied there and UF. Northwestern gave me a decent financial aid package, but it was still really expensive, and I was worried that I wouldn't have a safety net if anything happened.

I went to UF because I grew up in Gainesville and can mooch off my parents, and even though I moved out right away, I visit them over the weekend. And guess what? This year I got really sick, so I got to have my parents to drive me to doctor's appointments and help with insurance and stuff. Yeah.



Anyway, four of the smartest people I know (stars of the math team, virtuosos on two instruments, statewide champions in multiple academic competitions, 1600 SATs, 5s on 15+ AP exams, etc.) got rejected from MIT. I know one guy who got rejected with a 4.0 unweighted, 13+ passed AP exams, being an officer in the band (one of the best in the country at our high school), and being statewide champion in multiple math team categories... He then went on to graduate from UF in three years with an honors thesis in Nuclear Engineering that a guy on the committee said was better than most PhD students'. The only guy I know who got in to MIT is a total suck-up jerk who has been working on buffing his college applications since he was about 8. And is smart, but not the smartest I know. =P All white and Asian males, though, so if you're more of a minority you'd probably have better chances.

I need to start thinking about grad schools right about now. =/ My bf applied to something like 11 schools, and got rejected by his top 4 and some of the mid numbers. o.O He has about a 3.9 and nearly has a Master's degree after four years of undergrad. So yeah. He is in mathematics, though... Lots of overachievers in that field. Still... my grades dropped after I got sick so idk if I'll get in anywhere I want to go. =(

[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Wow. Someone who goes to UF, what a coincidence. Quite a few of my senior friends are going there. Its more or less the "backup" school you could say for the IB program down here at my High School. Nearly every IB Senior here applies to go there, and if they don't get into their top out of state choices, most end up going to UF.

I only heard by word of mouth that the UF Comp Science wasn't as good as UCF, and I think I read the same thing elsewhere as well. Yeah. I applied to the Honors College there, and I have the Florida Bright Futures thingy, so all of my Tuition would be paid for for either of those schools.

I actually know one girl who got into M.I.T. She's pretty crazy. I'm pretty sure she has a lower GPA than me, not by much though I think. Her extracurriculars are off the wall, she's a major pianist, so that probably helped a whole lot. AP Exams really don't matter in getting accepted into colleges IIRC. Anyways, she's the first to get in from my school in the last 5 years. Two were wait listed last year, and they were the Valedictorian and Salutatorian, neither got in though. One went to Cornell with a full ride and the other is at UF currently.[/COLOR]

I applied to 3 schools:

-Georgia Tech
-North Carolina State University (NCST)
-University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC)

I got into all of them, but since I didn't get a scholarship at Georgia Tech and it was too expensive for out-of-state tuition, I decided to go to North Carolina State University. Georgia Tech would be the school I wish I could go to since I'm majoring in mechanical engineering, but NCST is very good also. GO PACK!!


To DitOwnsYou: Don't be a Dookie or a Tarhole, come to State.

I applied to 3 schools:

-Georgie Tech
-North Carolina State University (NCST)
-University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC)

I got into all of them, but since I didn't get a scholarship at Georgia Tech and it was too expensive for out-of-state tuition, I decided to go to North Carolina State University. Georgia Tech would be the school I wish I could go to since I'm majoring in mechanical engineering, but NCST is very good also. GO PACK!!


To DitOwnsYou: Don't be a Dookie or a Tarhole, come to State.

I most likely will, mainly because I need the place easiest to transfer into, which is NCSU. I really don't careeee, I just want to be closer to Raleigh-Durham/Chapel Hill. And hopefully somewhere with a decent Business program.

You like it at State? I dunno, I fucking love UNCC, since I had lived at home in Charlotte for Middle School/High School, and now it's like I'm in a totally different place.

I most likely will, mainly because I need the place easiest to transfer into, which is NCSU. I really don't careeee, I just want to be closer to Raleigh-Durham/Chapel Hill. And hopefully somewhere with a decent Business program.

You like it at State? I dunno, I pineappleing love UNCC, since I had lived at home in Charlotte for Middle School/High School, and now it's like I'm in a totally different place.

Yea, I really like it at State. Chapel Hill's campus is nicer, but more complex, whereas State has lots of brick and more straight forward. The best days at State is where it's in the high 70's, you've got people laying on the Court and people skateboarding/longboarding around campus. Business here is pretty laid-back I heard, not as tough as Chapel Hill or Duke.

I've lived in Concord my whole life, so I didn't want to go to Charlotte since it was so close to home. Raleigh is a nice change.

Yea, I really like it at State. Chapel Hill's campus is nicer, but more complex, whereas State has lots of brick and more straight forward. The best days at State is where it's in the high 70's, you've got people laying on the Court and people skateboarding/longboarding around campus. Business here is pretty laid-back I heard, not as tough as Chapel Hill or Duke.

I've lived in Concord my whole life, so I didn't want to go to Charlotte since it was so close to home. Raleigh is a nice change.

Yeah, I also didn't want a program like those two where I'd probably feel like I didn't belong simply because the people I know attending there are super-high-over-achievers to the max. State used to be my focus anyway because I was into Vet. Med. and that's a big program there and all so I got a bit of knowledge about the school/programs.

Yeah. Change. *sigh*. Only a year left, if I am going to transferrr!

I got accepted into U of M (University of Michigan) into the Nursing program alot of years ago, but due to me being scared and not knowing what to do, I turned it down. Not to mention the size of the classes freaked me out. That was the stupidest thing I could of done but I'm glad I did now.

The other schools I considered were Oakland University (in Michigan as well), Michigan State University, and a few others that don't matter =)

Currently I go to Carnegie Institute, which is an all Medical field related institution. I love it! Took me 10 years to find the right place to school but I finally found it.

What if my true ambition is to "go to college" in front of my computer's monitor? Is that bad?

I went to Georgetown. If I had to do it again, I'd go to U of Illinois or U of Michigan, which are supposedly "worse" but in reality not really worse. Top names are not necessarily what they're cracked up to be. Georgetown has a tense, unpleasant environment and I loathed being there the whole time. It wasn't just me, many of my friends were homesick and hated the school. To expand on that point, my brother did his PhD in Biology at MIT, (which many people here seem to aspire to get into,) and he told me no way in hell is he sending his kids there. If there's any one thing I've learned about being in college, it's that you should never just judge a place by its statistics and admission difficulty. Look at the campus carefully and try to talk to students who are already there, because they won't bull$hit you like the tour guides will. Getting a pretty piece of paper is NOT worth a nervous breakdown or four years of general misery.

I went to Georgetown. If I had to do it again, I'd go to U of Illinois or U of Michigan, which are supposedly "worse" but in reality not really worse. Top names are not necessarily what they're cracked up to be. Georgetown has a tense, unpleasant environment and I loathed being there the whole time. It wasn't just me, many of my friends were homesick and hated the school. To expand on that point, my brother did his PhD in Biology at MIT, (which many people here seem to aspire to get into,) and he told me no way in hell is he sending his kids there. If there's any one thing I've learned about being in college, it's that you should never just judge a place by its statistics and admission difficulty. Look at the campus carefully and try to talk to students who are already there, because they won't bull$hit you like the tour guides will. Getting a pretty piece of paper is NOT worth a nervous breakdown or four years of general misery.

Did he say why he didn't like MIT that much?