Where did you want to go to school?
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on 10/10/11 at 5:38pm
Where did you want to go to school? You can answer this by putting yourself in your shoes when you were 16-18 or you can use hindsight and pick a school that would've put you at a position to get a job at your dream firm(if you're not already at the firm).
I'll go first. I'd love the opportunity to study math at Caltech or Princeton.





I wanted to study history and
I wanted to study history and government at Harvard. Second choice was history at Yale with directed studies freshman year.
Georgetown was my top choice.
Georgetown was my top choice. Followed a girlfriend to a lesser-target in DC. End well that did not, should've transferred when I had the chance. Recruitment is a bitch right now.
never really cared about
never really cared about school until i started at a state school and realized i needed to get out/could do better
I wanted to do premed at
I wanted to do premed at Johns Hopkins, but switched out of the sciences once I realized that $250,000 per year after 12 years of hard work, negligible earnings and massive debt is not that great. Contrary to what I had heard growing up, medicine had faded from its heyday in the early 90s to a firmly upper middle class profession. I actually loved science, but I didn't see any other reliably high paying careers in the field. I am grateful everyday that I didn't start at JHU, only to realize I didn't want to do medicine...or worse, go to a school with nothing but hard sciences, like Caltech.
Looking back, I wish I had applied to Stanford. I wanted to get out of California, and have been trying to get back ever since. Maybe it was worth it just to realize that I actually love my home state, despite its bad schools, broken politics, and high taxes.
I love my alma mater and
I love my alma mater and wouldn't trade my college experience, but I am really partial to Princeton after visiting it. I just wish they had a grad program I was more interested in.
There have been many great comebacks throughout history. Jesus was dead but then came back as an all-powerful God-Zombie.
Vilma wrote: Georgetown was
Georgetown was my top choice. Followed a girlfriend to a lesser-target in DC. End well that did not, should've transferred when I had the chance. Recruitment is a bitch right now.
Good luck.
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amherst or williams - i
amherst or williams - i applied ED to one of these. Still would if I had the chance. No lay prestige, but I would've loved it.
I wanted to study econ or
I wanted to study econ or chemistry at Dartmouth. I didn't get in :(
looking for that pick-me-up to power through an all-nighter?
I go to a mid-Ivy, that I
I go to a mid-Ivy, that I absolutely love but, seriously, Harvard, hands down. And not entirely for the name. The Government, Philosophy, and Economics faculties there are freaking legendary. The traditions are pretty awesome. Plus, Boston is a sick college town.
Wanted to do applied math and
Wanted to do applied math and econ at Harvard. Didn't get in. Still perfectly content with my current school though, which was my 2nd choice.
Any university... as a poor
Any university... as a poor immigrant I didn't know about rankings or prestige anything after high school would do.
Berkeley - any
Berkeley - any major...would've been sick
Wanted to go to Amherst,
Wanted to go to Amherst, didn't get in and ended up elsewhere, but I would have used my ED card to go to Penn non Wharton, or Duke.
I wanted to go to Duke.
I wanted to go to Duke.
I decided to go to a
I decided to go to a community college after high school so I could get an associates in music then move onto a sound engineering school. Changed my mind and applied to transfer to UMich. Only actual university I applied to haha. Still pretty close to home which is pretty essential at this moment, and instate tuition rawks my sawks.
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I wish I had followed my
I would have taken Duke, UVA,
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@seedy underbelly What
Life, liberty, and the happiness of pursuit.
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easy guys no need to get a
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Brady4MVP wrote: Buyside
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tbh I'd rather go to BC if I
Then when it's time to get a
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Boston girls aren't very good
^ I think you can through
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Princeton, Boston,
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Stanford or UNC (out of
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no way kimosabe, this is my house now --Brennan Huff
First pick was Babson
"Well make more fuckin' money. This is America. You don't make money, then you're a fuckin' douchebag." - Mr. French
Berkeley when I was younger
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Out of HS I wanted to go to
DNOsaur wrote: Buyside
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Yale. Still my irrational
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happypantsmcgee wrote: Yale.
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Buyside
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
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Buyside
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Simple As...
There have been many great comebacks throughout history. Jesus was dead but then came back as an all-powerful God-Zombie.
Midway through college I wish
no way kimosabe, this is my house now --Brennan Huff
When I was in HS, I thought
When she fucks with The Weeknd, I call her up on weekdays
I didn't know enough about
A lot of people do certain things to add days to their life. I do things to add life to my days.
Wanted to go to Duke,
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I wanted to go to Notre Dame
Duke, UC, or UNC.
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