Where did you get in? Where were you rejected?

Got accepted to Texas, Texas A&M, Colorado State (the school I desperately wanted to go to but couldn't afford due to out-of-state tuition) and Texas Tech (my safety school). Ended up going to Texas A&M, where I was working news side when Bonfire collapsed and killed 12 students. With that in mind, I honestly can't say whether A&M was the right choice or not. Has it worked out? I don't know. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

 

Ha, ha - you're older than me!!!! ;D

Hmmm... a commune... sounds like my kind of school.

 

Back then they didn't give grades. They didn't want to harsh your mellow.

I believe grades are now optional.

 

As far as doing it all over again, that's a tough question.

From a career standpoint, yeah, I would love to go back, go to Penn, get a degree in something useful and then be rich for the rest of my life.

But then I don't meet my wife, have my kids, so on and so forth.

Everything happens for a reason.

 

Is she a got in? Or a rejected?

Because I know which she is for dooley.

 

Yes

 

Accepted at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State, Carnegie Mellon (have no idea why I applied there other than they showed a bunch of interest in me and kept sending me stuff) and Cal State Fullerton, where I eventually ended up.

Accepted at Syracuse, provided I change my major out of Communications, since the program was impacted. Remember thinking that there's no way I'm going from SoCal to Siberia unless I can major in what I want to major in.

Took a visit to Cal and although I loved the area, didn't love the concept of 400-student classes, not knowing what a full prof was until I was a junior and didn't love the concept of having to major in History or Poli Sci because they didn't have a Comm program either.

Given the fact I didn't have much of a "college experience" at Fullerton and that my friends went to Cal, I probably should have gone there. I did , however, get a great education for pennies on the dollar.

Oh well....

 

I applied in '83 and was accepted to Cal with a 3.7 and, how do I put this? -- subpar SATs. Back then, if you were in the top 10% of your class and had a GPA/SATs over a certain threshold, you got in. They had a graph crossing GPA and SATs, meaning if you had a GPA over a certain point (I believe it's 3.3), you basically could drool on your SATs and get in.

Those days are long past. If I applied to Cal with my credentials these days, they'd laugh my application out of the room.

And that's a story in itself that has fascinated me, especially with a high school junior. Why is it so much harder to get into schools these days?

 

Accepted: Ithaca, Syracuse, Miami (Fl), Ohio U, Loyola (Md), Univ of Maryland, USC (and I know there's a few others, but I'm blanking at the moment)

Rejected: This one's kind of funny - UNC-Chapel Hill. I actually got the rejection the day after I decided to go to Ithaca and I only would have gone there if I had gotten the full scholarship for which I applied. I somehow didn't even get into the school despite being well above the average scores for people accepted there.

And to answer Zeke's question, there's no way in a million years I'd change where I went. Thanks to my stipend, I was basically paid to go to school every semester. So I was able to save up while at school and also I don't think it would have been possible to find a better group of friends.

 

Accepted: Washington, Washington State, Gonzaga, Eastern Washington and Michigan State
Rejected: none

Happy as hell with the decision I made.

 

Accepted: University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, Michigan, Indiana
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, UPenn
Waitlisted: Columbia