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Jast
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I lost my post two times now. Basically, it's acceptance/rejection season and I'm wondering what colleges people got in to. Top choice, safety? It's also nearing exam time. I'm also wondering what colleges people are currently attending. I plan on going to Appalachian State next year, and by next year I mean August 2009.
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I'm planning on doing Purchase for 2 years doing the orientation and languages (arabic or chinese) and then moving on to Middlebury or CCNY with a major in International Relations.
Major will be either Government/International Relations or Secondary Ed (History).
I hate you all.
3 years ago.
For me, it was.... a bit more than two years... ago but the sentiment remains.
I'm a senior and I already feel this way.
edit: To any person entering college, one suggestion I have for the near future is finding an internship doing anything. A regular summer job could line your pockets, and sitting around doing nothing is God's gift to Man, but getting that extra edge when you enter the work force can be invaluable.
See, I'd love to be able to do this. However, up to now I really haven't had the opportunity.
However, with my husband's new schedule and me dropping work to part time, maybe it'll be easier to fit into the schedule.
Last Friday I met up with some friends there for a block party, with $2 beer and live music featuring Wintersleep. I could barely walk when that thing was over. They have nothing like this at SFU, and it's bullshit.
I looked at some smaller schools for Football, but decided a college with 20+ thousand people would be a better way to find myself than to try and keep holding on to High school football at a division 1 AA school for two or three years.
Basically I'm getting my math and science in shape, and at the end of it I'll be able to go to a well known Engineering University!
Bad news (or is it really good news?) is that it adds another year of schooling I'll have to do.
Oh well, who needs to graduate before they're thirty?
I got accepted into Michigan State 2 years ago, and turned it down. Then I turned down other stuff.
There are two things going here. First of all, I have no desire to experience college life, and second of all I want to handle any real university expenses on my own.
Cooper Union put me on their waiting list but I became nonchalant about them about right after I sent in my home test.
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A girl I know is getting into Mills...sounds like a great college, shame I'm the wrong gender.
Good thing to skip on UVM... most of the people I know who went there definitely got more of an education in party 101 than in any degree program. Regardless of its national rating or whatever, UVM isn't that great a school.
I just returned to school, actually... going to CCV (Community College of Vermont), since it fits around my work schedule. I have a couple of excellent teachers, though one of the teachers is kinda... useless.
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It's been a bit crazy in terms of work, but everything fell into place. I have 6 classes this quarter along with a bad case of Senioritis. My philosophy now is to just pass because I have some job opportunities on the horizon, but that might prove challenging.
If there's one thing to do in a tough major, is to jump on your easy classes and start out with a high GPA. They aren't going to get any easier, so you might as well get the A's while you can and enjoy the honors or whatever.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
But, I'll be done there soon, and then I'll be a Master Debater.
And a Cunning Linguist.
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Of course I lost the full scholarship after my second year, and it dropped down to 75% and I stopped qualifying for grants at the same time (and also, it's a small school, which was an added benefit. I wasn't interested in bigger Florida schools with football teams, giant stundent bodies and frats/sororities. I also dislike dorms and wanted to avoid those.); between that and other various expenses (car getting totaled, so on) I've YET to move out or even save money. Somehow it's all disappearing very rapidly between my months of being dumb with money and then real expenses.
I've got a year left and other aspects of life are much more tempting than finishing up, but that's just me being lazy and dumb. Tired as I am of this whole area I'll finish up since I'm this close to it. Of course, I say I'm tired of it now, but it's probably burn out; I'm sure once I've been out for a while I'll want it back.
Yeah, between that, the distance from my house (long), and the financial aid (nonexistent), I crossed that one off the list.
[edit] Holy crap, goodomens. Was the place built cheap, or does it just have a ton of books?
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I wish I had another year only because I could totally win student president and do some good things.
The latter is the top choice, and they are sure taking their sweet time sending admissions decisions out.
Got into all the first three, with enough financial aid offered from Irvine to damn near pay for it all, including living expenses. They may have successfully bought me off. Then again, their philo department (when it comes to political and philosophy of law) isn't nearly as good as UCLA's. We'll see.
For any juniors, don't think that just because you scored high on the SAT means you should apply to a bunch of Ivy league schools. You can save yourself a lot of paperwork and essay-writing time by forgoing the big names.
If your GPA is in line with your SAT, then go for it. Mine wasn't horrible (top 13%), but that isn't amazing either. Realize that Harvard, Yale, Stanford etc. are getting applications from just about every valedictorian in the country, and they're rejecting a lot of them. The valedictorian at my school who scored a 2300 got rejected at Stanford and Cornell. He also didn't have any extra-curriculars.
While the college application process can be a dice roll, realize that there's aiming high, and there's aiming too high.
Maybe I'm bitter...