Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
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Anonymous
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Wanted Carleton, got in but struggled academically (loved the school, though) freshman year and transferred to Michigan State.
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Anonymous
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Wanted Georgetown. Accepted but took a full merit scholarship to a state school instead.
Ended up at Georgetown a few years later for my MSFS. |
Anonymous
| Dartmouth; Wesleyan |
Anonymous
| Too old to remember, JMU. |
Anonymous
Must’ve been a tough loss. Wesleyan is one ugly, miserable looking college |
Anonymous
| Princeton - Stanford |
Anonymous
| Brown; Haverford |
Anonymous
| Wanted to go to UCBerkeley, ended up applying early in-state to UVA and getting in. I felt bad making my parents pay for an out of state school. Funny how neither of my brothers worried about that. |
Anonymous
| Wanted University of Florida and got University of Florida. Also got Duke, Tulane and Miami. |
Anonymous
| Harvard, Harvard. Did well but didn’t love it. |
Anonymous
| Wanted Berkeley, got Princeton. Would've preferred Berkeley, to be frank. |
Anonymous
| Yale/ Harvard. This was back in the medieval era. Plane flights and long distance phone calls had just been deregulated, so people were just starting to venture more than a few hundred miles from home. If you were a bit adventurous, you really reaped admissions benefits. Most universities didn't have truly national applicant pools yet, so the odds of admission were much better . |
Anonymous
Wanted Notre Dame, got Dayton 
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Anonymous
| Yale, Yale |
Anonymous
Well, aren’t you a ray of sunshine? Willing to bet the Wesleyan grad is a lot happier with life than you are. |