Where else would you have gone?

[chopper816]

probably UNL or Texas!!!! both of them would be a lot of fun, but most of my family probably wouldnt want me back if I went to Texas for school b/c most of them hate the horns!

[KSigkid]

Syracuse or Northwestern for their journalism programs, or Princeton to see if I could handle it.

Collin

[KillarneyRose]

The only school I ever wanted to attend was the University of Pittsburgh so I didn't apply anywhere else. I knew I'd get in because I had good grades and activities in high school and Pitt acceptees basically run the gamut from validictorians to people who get there and can't place out of Algebra.

Looking back, I think it would have been pretty cool to go to the US Naval Academy (not that I had the grades for it) but my husband (who is two years older than me) would have been in his third year there when I was a freshman so it would have been his job to be mean to me so I probably wouldn't have liked him, we wouldn't have gotten married, we wouldn't have our kids....

I think things worked out just fine with me going to Pitt

[xok85xo]

the only schools i applied to where university of new mexico and arizona state. ASU was my first choice, i was accepted to both..but my parents convinced me to go to UNM so that i could be close enough to come home when i wanted, but far enough away where i was still sort of going away to school. they also promised me a car(which i didn't see until my senior year in college). ironically, my parents moved to arizona the august before my sophmore year.

[The1calledTKE]

UGA. I went to Valdosta because I do alot better with the smaller classes.

[phimugirlie01]

I only applied to schools in SC when I was a senior. I was dead set on going to school there. Well guess what? I got homesick. So here I am, at Ohio University, and I love it!!

[AchtungBaby80]

My parents said I had to stay in-state because of the astronomical out-of-state tuition, so I only applied to UK and Morehead State. I got a full ride to Morehead, which was my parents' choice for me (my dad & sister went there), so of course I chose UK. It worked out all right, I guess...I mean, UK isn't anything special by any means, but at least when I tell people where I go to school, they don't say, "Uhhh..where?"

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

I applied to Iowa State, U of Iowa, Texas A&M, Texas Christian University, Missouri (obviously ), and UNC-Chapel Hill...

I *really* wanted to go to TCU or A&M, but at the time my dad lived only 15 mins. away from TCU and I wanted to go to a state where I had NEVER been or lived. Iowa was too much like Nebraska for me (not school wise, just state wise). I didn't get in to UNC though so that WOULD have been where I would have gone, had I gotten in there, but I didn't, and at the time I wanted to be a broadcast journalism major, so I picked Mizzou b/c it has the best journalism school in the country. Even though I am a psych major now, they still have a great dept. here, plus I love the campus atmosphere, this is a total "college town" with a huge, fun, and awesome Greek system!

[KappaKittyCat]

I also applied to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, St. Olaf, and Carnegie Mellon University. I got into UW and St. Olaf, and I know had I gone to either of those, I wouldn't have gone Greek (Olaf because there is no Greek system, and Madison because it's really huge and scary). I would have been going to CMU for all the wrong reasons, i.e. as a last-ditch attempt to salvage a failing relationship with a mean boyfriend. Well, I was sick as a dog on audition day for CMU and bombed it big time. I didn't even need to get the rejection letter before I realized that I needed to reevaluate my priorities. I realized that I was much happier with this boy out of my life. I broke up with him and soon after got my acceptance letter here, and I've never regretted my decision.

[ChiOqt]

All of the school in DC~ GW, Georgetown, American...are absoutely beautiful. But when I applied to college it was only two: Longwood University and Virginia Tech. I picked tech without ever seeing it and it turned out to be all wrong for me. So I'm at George Mason, wishing I had choosen this school all along! Although, I would have loved to go down toFlorida at Stetson University!

[Betarulz!]

I applied to Mizzou, U of Kansas, and Nebraska at Lincoln (obviously) and the University of Missouri-Kansas City's 6 year combined Medical and B.A. degree program.

Junior year I really wanted to go to Mizzou, but I'm not sure why. Most of it I think was b/c I had read a lot about their Med school and really liked the sound of it. So I thought that would help me get there. I also knew that I would get an automatic scholarship of $5500 a year due to my ACT score. There was also some factor about the income taxes my parents paid to Missouri and that would have resulted in some tutition being deducted...My parents live in Kansas, but both work in Missouri.

I applied to KU b/c that's where nearly everyone in my HS goes. Either there or K-state, but having been raised a Husker since birth, I couldn't stand to wear purple ever! I didn't want to KU since everyone does. I didn't want to be in the same place I had been in HS, and I'm pretty sure that if I had gone to KU I wouldn't have joined the Greek system, and if I had, I most certainly would not have joined Beta there.

I was forced to apply to UMKC's combined program after jokingly showing the brochure to my mom. We had had many conversations about costs and so I showed her the program b/c of the tuition of over 22000 $ a year for the first 2 years and then over 27000 for the next 4. I got in, but I was really skeptical b/c all the doctors and teachers there were products of the program. All the other doctors I talked to who weren't from the program thought it was ridiculous b/c those two years were very important in maturity level, having seen the world, and just experienced the joys of college.
I wouldn't have been Greek there either, simply b/c I'm sure there wouldn't have been teh time.

[aephi alum]

I would probably have gone to Cornell, where I was also accepted. Or possibly RPI, WPI, or Caltech (though Caltech was a little far from home).

[sororitygirl2]

I was supposed to go to University of Florida... I bailed at the last minute and went somewhere else.

[prospectiverushee]

I only applied to one school Louisiana Tech. Everbody else I went to high school with went to LSU( but I just had to be different)

I wanted to apply to Michigan State, University of South Florida, or Pepperdine,but my mom wanted me to say close to home

If I could do it over again I'd go to William and Mary because that's were my mom wanted me to go

[AOIIalum]

Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
It worked out all right, I guess...I mean, UK isn't anything special by any means, but at least when I tell people where I go to school, they don't say, "Uhhh..where?"

Bite your tongue, AchtungBaby! I would have killed to have gone to Kentucky

I wanted to attend UK, Western Kentucky, Dayton, Miami (OH) or Cincinnati. I absolutely, positively, did not want to go to Louisville. My parents pretty much gave me one choice for college...stay home and go to U of L or go where I wanted and pay for it myself. WKU offered some scholarship money, but not enough.

So, I went to Louisville, where my academic record pretty much indicated how much I hated being there. Of course, it wasn't all bad as Louisville since I met my husband of over 14 years there. I also honestly doubt that I'd had the overall Greek Life experience elsewhere that I had at Louisville, especially my AOII experiences. For these reasons, I'm thankful.

Do I still have regrets that I didn't go to Kentucky or Western? Yep, but I wouldn't trade what I have now just to get a chance to do it all over again. Life's too darned good these days.

It took me 10 years to return and graduate with the degree I wanted, but I did it. I also pulled a 4.0 that entire time, and graduated with just over a 3.0. I'm darned proud of that. It's amazing what you can do when you're majoring in what you want to and not what other's expect you to major in.


Christin