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Anonymous wrote:If you don't get the best possible education you might end up opting logically incoherent messages on DCUM - see above.

Sorry you couldn't follow it.

Signed, the Penn grad and NMSSF and who wrote it

^^^ That's U Penn to you

Anonymous wrote:If you don't get the best possible education you might end up opting logically incoherent messages on DCUM - see above.

Sorry you couldn't follow it.

Signed, the Penn grad and NMSSF and who wrote it

I grew up in Pennsylvania and refused to go to Penn State (the horror of it all), couldn't get into CMU or Penn, and instead went to a shitastic unranked college that still has zero name recognition while PSU is in the news every day. I really credit my 17 year old self for making the right decision for me (and thank my parents for not disowning me). I hate to say it but, it really is about finding the right fit, not rank. Well it worked for me anyway.

If you don't get the best possible education you might end up opting logically incoherent messages on DCUM - see above.

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Anonymous wrote:If you haven't found a stretch school that you really love you haven't looked hard enough. Keep looking.

Totally disagree. If all you care about is a stretch it probably means you are too focused on rankings.

A lot of people who regret their college choice 29 years after the fact probably thought the same thing once

Why would you regret passing up a school you didn't like as much?

Some people change and grow after college.

If only we all had crystal balls. Then we could predict which schools we would be glad to have attended, even if we hated all 4 years when we were attending.

I suppose your point is, anybody would be glad, at age 30, to have attended done miserable highly-selective college that has good name recognition and a high USNWR ranking. But then we would still need the crystal ball, to tell us which colleges are zooming up (much like Northeastern) and down the USNWR rankings in our majors, whatever the crystal ball tells us we'll major in. And we'll have to take your word for it, that "fit" is irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:If you haven't found a stretch school that you really love you haven't looked hard enough. Keep looking.

Totally disagree. If all you care about is a stretch it probably means you are too focused on rankings.

A lot of people who regret their college choice 29 years after the fact probably thought the same thing once

Why would you regret passing up a school you didn't like as much?

Some people change and grow after college.

Well that's true for me - I might not pick the school I attended if I were doing it again (although it's a top 10 SLAC and a stretch for many students). But that doesn't mean it wasn't the right choice at the time. And some of the changes and growing were attributable to my college experience. I think the outcome would have been less positive if I'd chosen the schools that appeal to me now (having visited about 25 colleges in the last few years with my kids). But I have no regrets.

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Anonymous wrote:If you haven't found a stretch school that you really love you haven't looked hard enough. Keep looking.

Totally disagree. If all you care about is a stretch it probably means you are too focused on rankings.

A lot of people who regret their college choice 29 years after the fact probably thought the same thing once

Why would you regret passing up a school you didn't like as much?

Some people change and grow after college.

....and presumably these same people realize that once you get past age 30 or so, nobody really gives a rat's ass where you went to college.

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Anonymous wrote:If you haven't found a stretch school that you really love you haven't looked hard enough. Keep looking.

Totally disagree. If all you care about is a stretch it probably means you are too focused on rankings.

A lot of people who regret their college choice 29 years after the fact probably thought the same thing once

Why would you regret passing up a school you didn't like as much?

Some people change and grow after college.

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Anonymous wrote:If you haven't found a stretch school that you really love you haven't looked hard enough. Keep looking.

Totally disagree. If all you care about is a stretch it probably means you are too focused on rankings.

A lot of people who regret their college choice 29 years after the fact probably thought the same thing once

Why would you regret passing up a school you didn't like as much?

Oh god. Ridiculous. Who hasn't gotten over not going to an ivy 20 years later? This is the sort of attitude that led my friend's parents to be be upset when her sister transferred from Duke to University of Chicago for obvious social reasons and academic reasons (she was very intellectual/quirky type and not preppy enough for Duke) just because the US news and world report ranking for Duke happened to be higher that year. Forget that Chicago has the most nobel laureate faculty of any school in the country....