what school is right for you?

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by alum

The stellar classmates of my D's that were Ivy-bound ended up applying to all 7 Ivies because it is such a roll of the dice as to which school would accept them.
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There are eight Ivy League schools.

Each school is so different from the other, I can't understand why a kid would apply to all 8...other than just wanting to go to an Ivy--which, if you're a non-athlete, doesn't really matter.

Even my friends from other Southern cities weren't caught up in the admissions madness the way that Northeastern Corridor kids are. It's tough because some of the good public high schools here will have 250 kids in a class applying to a school...and they won't all get in.

[aggieAXO]

Most of the people I knew in HS either aplied to A&M or UT and that was the end of it. A few applied to 2 schools (a Tx school then an out of state school usually Ivy league). It was not the norm to apply to more than 3, but then again most of us have already been brainwashed-either you are a longhorn or an aggie. Several of my friends were accepted to out of state schools but ended up staying in state. You can't beat the in-state tuition coupled with the great education.

[alum]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

There are eight Ivy League schools.

Each school is so different from the other, I can't understand why a kid would apply to all 8...other than just wanting to go to an Ivy--which, if you're a non-athlete, doesn't really matter.

Even my friends from other Southern cities weren't caught up in the admissions madness the way that Northeastern Corridor kids are. It's tough because some of the good public high schools here will have 250 kids in a class applying to a school...and they won't all get in.

Whoops, what a major typo! Fixing it now....

[AGDee]

Doesn't this all have something to do with what you want to major in? My major (Occupational Therapy) was only offered at 3 schools in my state. I applied to all 3 (to please my parents) although I knew I didn't want to go Wayne State because I'd have to live at home (and I was going away no matter what!). So, it was between Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan. I had been to Eastern and knew some people there, and they offered me a full tuition, 4 year, merit scholarship, so that was a no-brainer. The scholarship I was offered from Western wasn't as large. Thankfully, I did love the campus when I visited and it felt like "home" from the get go. People kept asking me why I wasn't going to Michigan and I would simply reply "They don't have my major". I don't think I'd have been happy there anyway, because the school is so spread out around the city. I liked that Eastern was a small self contained campus where you could walk from one end to the other in 15 minutes.

I never considered going out of state.

My friend, whose son is in college, is scaring me though. They aren't qualifying for any aid, in spite of the fact that she's a single mom and she has cosigned so many of his loans that SHE had to have HER mother co-sign for her new car loan. Now she's being rejected as a co-signer for her son's student's loans. This is sounding like a nightmare. My girlie should get scholarships, but I don't think my son will (because he's smarter than her but also lazier and doesn't care about grades as much). Scary stuff. I want to keep them in middle school....