all my senior friends are going through the same thing, so I can vicariously feel your pain. that'll be me in about eight months. but don't worry, you'll get in somewhere.
Raven - it'll definitely be worth it! I'm having the best time ever!
Though right now in the process of choosing a uni in the states for my semester abroad :D i hope i dont have to write anything else... that personal statement killed me.
@star: naah. like i wrote one essay that i used for common app & my columbia essay, but all the common app supplements have extra essays. &now i have to apply for scholarships and honors programs and stuff, and those have different essays too. it's a biiitch.
but yeah, it'll be worth it next year when i'm actually in college. that knowledge is the only thing keeping me from saying fuuck it and just going to like a SUNY or something.
annie, where are you looking to go?? that's so cool that you'll spend a semester here :)
columbia ♥ dartmouth nyu sarah lawrence emerson syracuse ithaca quinnipiac stony brook bryn mawr tulane marquette (accepted) drexel (accepted) marymount manhattan (accepted)
haaha so basically, i brought this hell upon myself. but whatever.
ohhgod me too. i adore columbia. like, i applied early decision, but i got deferred. ugh ugh ugh. my SAT score is above their middle 50%, but i'm a white female and my parents are still married and both have college degrees. sooo the moral of the story is, i'm fuucked when it comes to the diversity aspect of it. which is irritating, because that's the one part of the app where there's absolutely nothing i could do to improve. it's just totally outside of my control, and it's the weakest part of my app.
haaha i thought about it :P but they can rescind your admission if they find out you lied about ANYTHING. &if they find out after you've already gotten a degree, they can take away your degree. it's craaazy. sooo i don't think i'd risk that.
oh well. if all else fails, i'll go chill in wisconsin at marquette 8]
rach this is more of a specific question for you. i'm looking into colleges now. i know i probably won't be going to a private school, my parents said they won't be able to help me pay. but they said i could go to a suny. which is the best? so far only plattsburgh, brockport and stony brook look decent.
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@annie: i can tell you from experience that brockport is like the exact opposite of sunny and warm, haaha. it's like an hour and a half or so from where i live, and the weather is crap. so eliminating that as a choice is wise. but i bet sacramento or USF would be awesome!
@paige/tinsley (haaha i'll never stop having the impulse to call you that): i'll try to give you a rundown of the SUNYs i'm familiar with, but i don't really know a whole lot about all of them, so i'll do my best... what are you interested in majoring in and stuff?
-plattsburgh is supposed to be really good for communications, but i think it's kind of in the middle of nowhere, which is why i didn't end up applying there.
-brockport... i know a couple of people who are there, and they seem to be pretty happy with it, but that's about all i know. i think it's pretty close to rochester, and there's a decent amount to do there.
-stony brook is supposed to be good academically, my bff is there right now and she likes it well enough (or at least, she hates it less than she hates most things). she's going for pre-med and i guess the program is supposed to be good. their journalism program is good too, which is why i'm applying. the fact that it's on LI is nice, and apparently it's pretty cheap to take the train to NYC. the only specific complaint i've heard is that campus food sucks, but that's pretty much the case anywhere.
-potsdam is good for music and stuff, i have a couple of friends who are going to be in their dance program next year (i guess it's not all that selective, though). apparently all there is to do in potsdam is drink, or so i've heard, and i guess that gets old after a while.
-fredonia is also really good for music, and it's kind of close to buffalo.
-geneseo is supposed to be one of the best academically, but it's right in the middle of nowhere.
-binghamton is also supposed to be one of the best academically. i know someone who's a freshman there now, and she said she likes it a lot.
-oswego is good for broadcasting and teaching, but just don't go there. seriously. i've lived in osweegz for 18 years and it's just awful. the campus is pretty, though, since it's right on lake ontario.
wow, i admire you. can i have some of your brains? i've applied to 3 schools and i still need to apply to one more. but known are like the ones you're applying to
Bowling Green State University Thiel Akron University Kent State University
although i want to be a teacher, and you really don't need a degree from some fancy school hahahaha.
thiel, is that near erie? i think my cousin went there, actually. but yeah, all my friends that want to be teachers are applying to state schools, because there are a lot of really good programs and it's a lottttt less expensive, at least in the SUNY system. i'm thinking i want to do pre-law now, though, and from what i've heard the public schools in new york aren't great for that, unfortunately.