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[quote=Anonymous]Everyone has long told me that things happen for a reason and the right college finds you.

In my case, the two schools I was waitlisted from I really was not a good fit. Not my kind of people but I was obsessed with status. I begrudgingly went to my third choice and from Day 1 I felt like I was at home. I absolutely loved it. To this day (I'm in my 50s) I can tell when someone else attended my school.  I was at a soccer college ID camp 6 states away and the one sane parent sat next to me and we were in tears and commenting on a lot of absurdity and delving into all kinds of fun topics and then finally after an hour we got on the 'well where did you go to school' thing and not only did she attend the SAME school. We graduated the same year.

My son is a Freshmen at a school that was an afterthought on his application list. He hadn't really researched it a ton. He hadn't visited it (well he did at age 7 and obvs. didn't remember).  He had 2 really big first choice schools all through HS.  On a whim he fired off an application to this school. I remember even when he was filling out the long application he mentioned how much easier it was to fill out. He liked the types of questions being asked, had fun with it, etc.  It's been one week and he's met a gazillion friends, loves his classes, playing on two teams and just loving the environment.

Looking back, it seems like it was such an obvious fit. We just didn't see it at the time.[/quote]

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