if it were you, not your kid: what would your school list look like and why
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Anonymous
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ED1 to NYU ED2 to Northeastern major minor combination of econ/finance/business analytics and CS/DS |
Anonymous
| I would have attended a smaller school. Maybe even a service academy. I did ROTC at a flagship, and two things happened: I was lost in the crowd and while I liked my time in the military, I would have personally found it harder to leave had I attended an academy (leaving was the wrong decision). |
Anonymous
| Overseas university. Liked my study abroad time. |
Anonymous
If you have the stats to make Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore a possibility, there's no way you'd seriously go to Montana State. |
Anonymous
| DH and I both valued are large state school experience. Any Big 10 will do. |
Anonymous
It would be my safety |
Anonymous
| Schools in Boston, NYC or Chicago. |
Anonymous
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My alma mater
Swarthmore Amherst Williams Not sure where else… |
Anonymous
CU-Boulder would make more sense as a safety. No way you're getting rejected there with stats that make you even remotely competitive for Dartmouth/Cornell. Montana State is a safety for CU-Boulder hopefuls. |
Anonymous
| I think I’d still go to my big state school, just do it differently. Take a more career-focused path. I didn’t get a “real” job until after I got my master’s. |
Anonymous
I dunno, the hypothetical list in my mind includes a lot of different kinds of experiences. Such a shame we only get to try on one life. There are a million potentially interesting ones. I guess that’s why it’s so important to keep an open mind and consider ideas and perspectives different from our own. It’s the closest we get to living more than the one life we’re given. |
Anonymous
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Went to UMich. Much too big for me. Would now pick:
- Amherst - Williams - Bates - Colby - maybe Tufts Would have majored in econ, the off to get an MBA. |
Anonymous
This is mean and wrong, but I laughed. |