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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you could turn the clock back a few years, what would you have done differently in prepping and choosing a college?  Either for yourself or your child..

I chose a good, but easy school where I got a very large academic scholarship; I got into 2 IVYs but let money (my parents) decide. If I could do it again, I would have gone IVY and took out loans.  The prestige would have helped me to land better jobs/grad school etc.  [/quote]

I wish I'd started in Calculus I instead of blithely assuming that the calculus class at my mediocre high school
had prepared me for Calculus II.

I also wish I'd spent more time exploring the town around my school. [/quote]

HA! I did this too! I was very good in high school math and attended an Ivy. My 5 on the AP AB calc test allowed me to skip into a harder class with mostly sophomores. I think it was a combo the class difficulty  and the transition from my small private where I knew all my teachers to large, anonymous lecture halls.  I was so crushed by that class and the C+ grade I never took another math class in college. In grad school for policy I did stats and regression analysis and found my joy for math again. [/quote]

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