Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?

[Anonymous]

Georgetown/GWU (with an almost full ride).

[Anonymous]

Princeton/Princeton (had a low income single parent so tuition/room & board were fully covered by financial aid.)

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth or Cornell, loved both, got in both but parents wouldn't pay. Went to Delaware on a full ride.

Any regrets?

No, went on from Delaware to a top5 law school. My kids wish they had Ivy legacy status but my life has been great!

[Anonymous]

NYU/JHU

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Cornell/BC

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Syracuse / Syracuse

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Brown/Stanford. I ended up loving Stanford and making my home in the Bay Area. Had I gone to Brown, I probably would’ve retained my Boston accent and parochial views as well have been shunned by the euro-trash there.

[Anonymous]

American / American. Fantastic experience.

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UCLA/UCLA. The costs and options for in-state Californian kids in the 90's was sublime. I never even contemplated the fancier East Coast schools or Stanford.

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Pomona/Pomona. Was great back then cause it was a party school: don’t even recognize the college in its current form- though it’s wayyy better

[Anonymous]

I didn’t have a preference. I applied to a bunch of places I liked and picked the one that gave the most aid that I also liked the most.

I think that’s how most Gen Xers approached it. I only knew two kids that had “dream” schools and it was a bit odd.

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Duke/Duke ED (would never get in now with my 1990s stats)

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t have a preference. I applied to a bunch of places I liked and picked the one that gave the most aid that I also liked the most.

I think that’s how most Gen Xers approached it. I only knew two kids that had “dream” schools and it was a bit odd.

Really? Even at my mediocre public school, I remember we all had a first choice. Some of us got in, some didn’t. And some who got in to our first choice wound up going elsewhere because we got better aid. But it was t true that we were indifferent or liked them all equally.

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Anonymous wrote:Brown/Stanford. I ended up loving Stanford and making my home in the Bay Area. Had I gone to Brown, I probably would’ve retained my Boston accent and parochial views as well have been shunned by the euro-trash there.

Well you certainly still seem parochial and narrow-minded, just on the left-coast now.

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I don’t really remember. I don’t think I had a favorite, I just wanted to get out of New York State. I ended up in Pennsylvania…