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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

Believe it or not, it just wasn’t a subject of a lot of conversation among my peers or my siblings. [/quote]
Same for me, HS class of ‘86.  A significant minority of my HS class didn’t go to college, and there were only a handful of us interested in leaving the state (Georgia) or looking at private colleges.

A lot of my family members had gone to Carleton over the years and liked it.  A few family friends had good things to say about Oberlin, Swarthmore, and Reed as well. I applied to and was accepted at all four, and went to [b]Carleton.[/b]  Such an easy process compared to now![/quote]

Just curious if you ever met a single other kid from GA at Carleton when you were there.

Have a friend originally from AZ that attended Carleton because he wanted to experience the most extreme winter he could find.[/quote]
Yeah, I think there were 5 or 6 of us total from GA, and only 1 that I recall from AZ.  There were a handful of students from boarding school who definitely seemed bitter at having ended up there, as well as one person from NYC who lasted less than a week. She said she’d underestimated her ability to deal with the lack of restaurants.

Supporting the notion that many of us did not do a lot of research re colleges back then, there was also a kid from rural MN who, when we were signing up for freshman classes in the auditorium, asked me if I knew where she could find the Intro to Hotel Management classes.

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