Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 12:07     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
I don’t really remember. I don’t think I had a favorite, I just wanted to get out of New York State. I ended up in Pennsylvania…
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 12:04     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Anonymous wrote:Brown/Stanford. I ended up loving Stanford and making my home in the Bay Area. Had I gone to Brown, I probably would’ve retained my Boston accent and parochial views as well have been shunned by the euro-trash there.


Well you certainly still seem parochial and narrow-minded, just on the left-coast now.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 12:04     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 11:59     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Duke/Duke ED (would never get in now with my 1990s stats)
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 11:55     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
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.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 11:52     Subject: Re:Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Pomona/Pomona. Was great back then cause it was a party school: don’t even recognize the college in its current form- though it’s wayyy better
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 11:51     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
UCLA/UCLA. The costs and options for in-state Californian kids in the 90's was sublime. I never even contemplated the fancier East Coast schools or Stanford.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 11:43     Subject: Re:Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
American / American. Fantastic experience.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 11:41     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Brown/Stanford. I ended up loving Stanford and making my home in the Bay Area. Had I gone to Brown, I probably would’ve retained my Boston accent and parochial views as well have been shunned by the euro-trash there.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 10:46     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Syracuse / Syracuse
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 10:44     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Cornell/BC
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 10:42     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
NYU/JHU
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 10:41     Subject: Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth or Cornell, loved both, got in both but parents wouldn't pay. Went to Delaware on a full ride.


Any regrets?


No, went on from Delaware to a top5 law school. My kids wish they had Ivy legacy status but my life has been great!


Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 10:29     Subject: Re:Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Princeton/Princeton (had a low income single parent so tuition/room & board were fully covered by financial aid.)
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2024 10:22     Subject: Re:Parents: What did you want and where did you end up?
Georgetown/GWU (with an almost full ride).