The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

I am applying to way too many colleges.

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Colgate University
Colby College
Oberlin College
Boston University
Dickinson College

UCLA
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
San Francisco State University
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo


.....22 schools. I think I just have way too many backup options. Ha.

Boston University is an awesome, awesome school. I was accepted but we couldn't afford it. SUNY Buffalo was my backup school so I ended up going there instead. It's actually a pretty good school if I do say so myself.

But yeah, Boston University is a WAY good school i.m.o.
Except I've heard many people say that it's gotten HUGELY Conservative.

Colgate is also one helluva fine school. I've seen their campus, it's BEAUTIFUL!

P.S. - One thing I'd like to suggest -

I'd spend a LOT of time thinking about whether you want to spend 4, 5 years of college at a BIG school or a SMALL school. It really does make a HUGE difference - it's night and day. SUNY Buffalo for example had like 25,000 students and it's only gotten bigger. The expectations were VERY high and the biology and math classes were VERY rigorous. That's both good and bad in a way. Many people felt "lost" there because it was so big. But small schools have their pluses and minuses too. i.m.o. it's a completely differenct experience, between a small school and a large one; and it's worth really spending a lot of time mulling over. In my opinion, that's actually the most important choice - maybe even more important than which specific school you choose to go to.