Which school should I attend?
I'm a junior right now, thinking of applying to basically 5 different colleges. I live in NC, so I'm going to pick NC State as my safety, and I'm going to apply to UNC Chapel Hill (Even though I would much rather go elsewhere).
My dream schools are both Yale University and Brown University, Ivy League, tough to get into etc. If I get in though, I'll be extremely happy.
I'm also going to apply to both Duke University (for its medical program) and NYU(I love New York.) I love big cities, open-minded people, and I want to go somewhere that I can walk to various places around town.
I'm thinking of becoming an english professor, and that would be set in stone if I go to Brown or Yale, but I would want to be something medical if I go to Duke. I've got a 4.4 GPA, taking 4 AP's this year, All A's and B's (many more A's).
Which would you recommend I go to, if I do get into all of them (unlikely).
I recommend that you visit the Universities and if you can't then ask if they have students who are willing to talk to you about their experiences there. I also suggest checking out their web pages and looking through their curriculum page, their school clubs, activities, demographics and so on and so forth. I really can't be of great help in choosing a place to study because in the end, the one who will be affected by the decision is you. I would love to go to Yale but you need to choose where it is you want to go.
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December 29th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
We'll of course I will say ivy league…However, if you dont get into those then i suggest NYU. Good place to be, very large city, excellent school, clubs, new people, very diverse. all the typical college things right outside your dorm or apt.!
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December 29th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
duke. duke rocks. tehn you could watch one of their games and have a bunch of fun in the student section.
GO DUKIES!
it also does have a very good academic standard
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December 29th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Im a sophmore now and I love Yale and im keeping an eye on them. I also am keping an ye on them and so far I have a 3.85/4.0 average (trying to raise that cuz I have a 98 or higher so far on my classes now)
Anyways I think If you get into Yale, go to Yale! (I hope I'm that lucky!)
I think you'll definelty get into NYU with you're grades. I go to school blocks away from one of their schools and the students are so diverse and awsome! But you need to file an extra application for them.
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December 29th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I recommend that you visit the Universities and if you can't then ask if they have students who are willing to talk to you about their experiences there. I also suggest checking out their web pages and looking through their curriculum page, their school clubs, activities, demographics and so on and so forth. I really can't be of great help in choosing a place to study because in the end, the one who will be affected by the decision is you. I would love to go to Yale but you need to choose where it is you want to go.
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Why would your career path be set in stone based on the schools you have in mind? I know Brown and Yale are better in the humanities, but the former doesn't have many general requirements; you could easily find a way to major in English while getting your premed requirements in. For that matter, you could do the same at Duke.
And yes, I know this isn't what you asked, but in all honesty, I think it's a little silly to try and pick before you have acceptance letters in hand. If you're trying to figure out whether you should apply to one early decision so you can potentially avoid that choice, I'd make an effort go and visit or at least talk to current students so you can decide which one suits you best on your own. The only place that really fits your walkable big-city requirement is New York, but you'll find open-minded people at all of them.
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:49 am
WVU!!! i am also planing on being an english major and i am going to WVU. Apply to all of the Ivy Leagues. I fu get in go to yale because there english program is really good. But really, apply to WVU. Its affordable and a its a great school! Football ain't to bad either!!!
Go EERS!
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:57 am
You COULD be a Longhorn……if yer worthy!
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December 30th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Ivy formula:
a nifty way to be ahead of other college applicants is to get a patent
plus you have the opportunity to be an imaginative being
now, the fun thing is that you can get a d patent like http://www.google.com/patents?id=hSopAAAAEBAJ&dq=astronomy+%22ornamental+design+%22 very cheaply http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2007september30_2007dec17.htm; these are patents on a visual or form aspect rather than a utility patent
draw anything; get a patent; file online
you have a patent thus the Ivy colleges will think highly of you
while you might strive to think of a thing as awesome as "magnetic poetry" you could just get a d patent on a musical nstrument like a guitar where each string n fret is labelled with a word such that a person could learn a song just with memorizing a string of words
kind of like http://youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq–Nw on a guitar
Ivy formula has not been tested; ymmv
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