What colleges did you apply to and did you get accepted?

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

This is inspired by WampusCrandle's college post and the exchange I had with Thomas Merton (that sounds so cool!)

It's been 24 years. I applied to 6 schools:

Fordham University (accepted and went to)
St. Bonaventure (accepted)
SUNY Plattsburg (accepted)
Friends World College (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_World_Program) (accepted; I would have gone but they weren't accredited b/c there library wasn't great. I regret not going.)
Alfred University (not accepted; fuck 'em!!!)
NYU (wait listed)

I decided on Fordham because I LOVED the campus and it was in NYC (albeit the Bronx). Plus, it was the best school that accepted me.

I had a GREAT experience, but my freshman year was rocky. I lived in the party dorm and was (still am) a nerd. I went home most weekends that year to catch up on sleep and homework. But once I found my friends I had a GREAT time!!!! I lived with some great woman and loved my classes.

My senior year I was considered "an orphan" and I actually got a FULL PELL Grant!! I thought the Pell Grant was a MYTH!!!

So, where did you apply, were you accepted, and were you happy with your decision?

[Chimee]

I'm the lazy bum that cared enough to apply to a college, but only applied to a state university that anyone could get accepted to. I applied and got into the University of Maine at Presque Isle and I just started my second year there having never set foot on the campus. Lazy as I am, it fits nicely, but I do kinda wish I had put forth the effort to deal with all my crazy anxieties and tried for a good school and lived on campus. Of course I could never have been one of those people applying to different schools then losing my mind over whether or not I got in.

[JPMNICK]

I applied to only 1 school and got in, NJIT in newark. I always wanted to go, so it worked out well. If i did not get in there, i had some other schools to try, but i knew that is what I wanted.

[Doogie]

I went to a community college before I went to a full on 4-year school. I also figured that the courses I would have of taken at the SUNY school were the same and chose that path as well. But when I did well at that school I transfered. I got accepted to SUNY Stoney Brook, SUNY Pottsdam, and SUNY Oneonta. I accepted SUCO of course. My father had just retired and he convinced me to take the Suite on my first year hitch...hell he was paying for everything and wanted me to be comfortable. Going to SUCO was to my benefit...it I spoke at two writers conventions at the Baseball Hall of Fame as a result of attending SUCO. I have no regrets in my decision and I if I pursue a history doctorate I may pursue SUCO as a place to teach...

[eeroomnhoj]

SUNY Cortland accepted
SUNY Oswego accepted

Not very exciting

[sailor]

i only applied to fordham (and got in) using the common application with no essay (benefit of going to fordham prep). i was accepted at fordham the day of the manhattan college deadline, right before i was going to bring over my application and check. it was cool, but i commuted so i know i missed out on a lot. eh, i got over it.

[grlNIN]

I was on an alternative path since i was in High School, that being i dropped out Junior year because of family problems and thusly had to get my diploma through an adult school(not GED! and i actually won a scholarship from them when i graduated). So i never took my SATs and couldn't apply to universities, had to go to CC.

After this Spring i will be applying to Rutgers. I barely have any back-up schools in mind since i will be commuting and not many schools are close enough with the degree program i want to pursue. If all else fails i will most like apply to Monmouth U (which i really don't want to), Kean, Drew and possibly Montclair.

[HBox]

Monmouth University, Hofstra and NJIT.

[KatPw]

I had no intention of going away to college, so I only applied to local schools.
Molloy College (accepted, went and hated the place, dropped out Senior year)
Adelphi (accepted)
C.W. Post (accepted)
Nassau Community College (accepted, they can't turn anyone away I think, Went there to finish some classes after I dropped out of Molloy)
Farmingdale State University (accepted, obtained my DH degree there)
NYU (accepted to the DH program)

Loved my time at both Farmingdale and NCC, hated Molloy. Only good thing to come out of Molloy is that is where I met my husband. Glad I didn't go to NYU for my DH degree, Farmingdale had a better passing rate in terms of the state/national boards, and was a heck of a lot cheaper. The year I took my state/national boards, several NYU DH students were caught cheating on the exam, and I know quite a few Dentists that will not hire their Hygienists because of their reputation (you "buy" your diploma).

[Mullenax]

I got into the only school I wanted for undergrad, didn't get into Syracuse U or Boston U for grad. Those applications were sent out while my senior year was in progress, which is widely discouraged when pursuing an MFA, and those picks were pretty ambitious.

My life would be completely different, I think, but Indy's working out fine for the two years I've been here.

[Jujubees2]

Wow, it's been over 25 years but let's see if I can remember:

Southern California (were I went for the first two years)
Syracuse
Tulane
St. Joseph's (Maine) - I was thinking of trying to play baseball there

I know there were others but I can't remember.

As for grad school:

Houston (were I went)
South Carolina
Oregon (the only one I didn't get into)
UNC-Wilmington

[burrben]

Ohio University (graduated in June)
Ohio State University (accepted)
Kent State (accepted)
Capital University (accepted and where I wanted to go but couldnt afford it)
Muskingum College (accepted)

[razorboy]

I was offered athletic and academic scholarships from a few schools. Namely, Transylvania University, UF, University of Tampa, University of Chicago, Haverford, University of Miami, New College of Florida, Clemson and Rice.

[drjoek]

School of Hard Knocks in
Whatsamatta U wait listed

[Freakshow]

applied and accepted

University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Penn State (University Park)
Maryland (fall-back school)

applied and not accepted.

Colagate (just to be different, requied the SAT II which I had to take at the last minute)

[Jujubees2]

School of Hard Knocks in
Whatsamatta U wait listed

Boy, your patients must be impressed whan they see that diploma hanging on your office wall!

[Thomas Merton]

First of all Alice, Fordham was the SECOND best school that accepted you! C'mon, I couldnt let that one go..I've been to several Bonnie/Rams game at that thing you call a gym.

My dad limited my choices by telling me he would only pay my way if it was a Catholic school, I had to beg my way into my public high school. Hard to bitch, he did pay so I applied to Holy Cross(yes) Villanova(wait list) and Providence(no). St. Bonaventure came out of nowhere(where its located) and was foolish enough to offer some assistance if I would play baseball for them, so I did.

I cant believe my dad didnt realize that Catholic schools are ground zero for drug use and I stopped playing ball and was following the Grateful Dead by junior year :smoke:

[bubs]

Michigan State (waitlisted)
Michigan (not accepted, no surprise!!)
Wayne state (accepted and attended freshman year)
Western Michigan (transfer)

Kalamazoo is a hell of a lot better to live in than the shithole one calls downtown detroit!

[WampusCrandle]

This is inspired by WampusCrandle's college post and the exchange I had with Thomas Merton (that sounds so cool!)

So, where did you apply, were you accepted, and were you happy with your decision?

first off, i have been known to be a muse of sorts :happy:

i applied to:
Manhattanville College - accepted/ attended for only 2 months fall '04 (horrible experience)
SUNY Purchase - accepted
Curry College - accepted/ attended from spring '05 - spring '06 (left to be closer to home)
Columbia University - wait listed
NYU Tisch - denied! i knew it would be tough, would have been surprised if i got in
Notre Dame University - accepted (didnt want to be in the middle of corn fields/ no scholarships)
Fordham University - accepted and NOW ATTENDED! WOOT WOOT!

[joethebartender]

Rider
Kutztown
Trenton State
Pace
Ithaca
Rutgers
Tufts

I chose Rider.

I got accepted to all but Rutgers. This really pissed me off because I knew a few other people that got accepted with lower GPA's and no sports on their applications. They weren't white males. (Apparently there were enough of those in the school already.)

I killed on my GRE's but can't deal with/afford more school.

[grlNIN]

I've heard the same thing about Rutgers from a lot of friends from various High Schools.

I am counting on my poverty as the diversity factor to get me in.

[A.J.]

Even though my high school GPA was around B+ (thanks to my awful math classes), my SATs were in the "mildly retarded" level so that would explain the following (as well as being a non-Virginia resident at the time):

Georgetown University: FAIL
American University: FAIL
George Washington University: FAIL
University of Virginia: FAIL
James Madison University: FAIL
George Mason University: FAIL

Boston College: Waitlisted

THE Catholic University of America: Accepted and was graduated.

Despite the name, CUA was a school full of Irish Catholics from the Northeast Corridor with a big contingent from the New Orleans area. That meant boozin' aplenty!

Seriously though it was a great school that often gets overlooked. The only regret about college I had was that I didn't go to a Division I school. Maybe I'd be more into college sports.

Oh, and I would have applied to UCONN but I wanted nothing more to do than to get the fuck out of CT when I turned 18.

[IMSlacker]

I was accepted at:
Carnegie Mellon
Virginia Tech
Alabama

I went to Virginia Tech for one year, and decided I wasn't cut out to be an engineer. After a semester off, I transferred to Memphis State.

Oh, and here's a tip for anyone with kids getting ready to apply for college who are also into sports. I was a pretty good track/cross country runner in high school, but not good enough to get an athletic scholarship anywhere. I found that a lot of schools encourage walk-ons for their non-revenue sports, so I sent my applications directly to the track coaches at Carnegie Mellon and Virginia Tech rather to the admissions department and ended up being accepted when I probably wouldn't have otherwise.

[Crippler]

I knew I wanted to be a doctor from a young age. Probably most of it was father-envy, he's a DO with a family practice. My father wanted me to attend Cornell & made a deal with me: graduate in the top 20 of your class & attend Cornell, get the car of your choice (knowing my dream car was a Corvette). I graduated #19 (out of about 105) but got waiting listed at Cornell...fuckers! But I guess a Corvette wouldn't have done very well on the snowy, hilly landscape of Ithaca, NY anyway.

So I made the mistake my father had been warning me about for the last two years of my high school career & tried to go the same route he went, through a tough Seton Hall Pre-Med program. Lasted two whole semesters, caused tons of animosity between myself & dear old dad, and wound up as a glorified lab tech at a pharmaceutical company.

Cornell - Waiting List
Rutgers (NB & Nwk CA&S) - Accepted
Penn State (Main & Wilkes-Barre) - Accepted
Seton Hall - Accepted
FDU (Madison) - Accepted

Moral of the story...listen to your parents, kids!

[joethebartender]

I've heard the same thing about Rutgers from a lot of friends from various High Schools.

I am counting on my poverty as the diversity factor to get me in.

F that! List yourself as Pacific islander/Eskimo. Hindsight is 20/20, my dear!

[DiabloSammich]

University of Texas
Texas A&M
UTSA
Temple University
University of Delaware


Betcha can't guess which one I picked.

[grlNIN]

F that! List yourself as Pacific islander/Eskimo. Hindsight is 20/20, my dear!

I'm pretty sure they ask for some kind of documentation or lineage thing, or at the very least recognize that you're not if you have to meet with admissions.

[A.J.]

Betcha can't guess which one I picked.

You took the train back and forth every day from Temple to Delaware.

[Tallman388]

Trenton State

Damn, back in the days before the College of New Jersey garbage, nice.

Applied & Accepted:
Denison
Gettysburg
Moravian
Roanoke

Went to Denison for 2 years, I should have gone to Roanoke.

[KidNothing]

Rutgers-Accepted
Boston Unv.-Accepted
Unv of Chicago-Wait List
NorthWestern-Declined
Ramapo-Accepted
Delaware-Declined

I chose Rutgers cause i had been there a billion times and my brother went there...i also could afford it cause i live in NJ....i really wanted to go to Boston or Chicago...:thumbup:

[Tenbatsuzen]

Graduating Senior:

Northeastern (In)
Rider (In)
West Virginia (In, Attended)
Rutgers (No)

I wanted to apply to Arizona State but my parents said emphatically No. How things have changed.

Transferring:

Northeastern (In)
Hofstra (In)
Monmouth (In)
Quinnipiac (In)

I was about to go to Qunnipiac but I felt it was too far away. So I shifted gears to Hofstra, but then Monmouth came with a huge scholarship. Hello, Hawks!

[Tenbatsuzen]

Rutgers-Accepted
Boston Unv.-Accepted
Unv of Chicago-Wait List
NorthWestern-Declined
Ramapo-Accepted
Delaware-Declined

I chose Rutgers cause i had been there a billion times and my brother went there...i also could afford it cause i live in NJ....i really wanted to go to Boston or Chicago...:thumbup:

How can you get into BU and Rutgers and NOT get into Delaware?

[Tenbatsuzen]

I've heard the same thing about Rutgers from a lot of friends from various High Schools.

I am counting on my poverty as the diversity factor to get me in.

I'm sure your breasts are a good diversity factor too.

[DiabloSammich]

How can you get into BU and Rutgers and NOT get into Delaware?



I'm sure his blood alcohol level wasn't high enough.

[A.J.]

I was about to go to Qunnipiac but I felt it was too far away.

That's the same excuse I use when my family bitches that I don't visit them often enough.

[Tenbatsuzen]

That's the same excuse I use when my family bitches that I don't visit them often enough.

It didn't help that the hotel I stayed in the night of my visit was a no-tell hotel in Hamden. People in both rooms on either side were fucking like machines.

This was the time BEFORE THE INTERNET, so it kind of sucked.

[Tenbatsuzen]

I was on an alternative path since i was in High School, that being i dropped out Junior year because of family problems and thusly had to get my diploma through an adult school(not GED! and i actually won a scholarship from them when i graduated). So i never took my SATs and couldn't apply to universities, had to go to CC.

After this Spring i will be applying to Rutgers. I barely have any back-up schools in mind since i will be commuting and not many schools are close enough with the degree program i want to pursue. If all else fails i will most like apply to Monmouth U (which i really don't want to), Kean, Drew and possibly Montclair.

I'm not sure what your major is, but if you're worried about the high school style social class cliques at Monmouth, there's more of an even playing field at MU. Yes, plenty of rich snobby kids go there, but there was a lot of shenanigans from the Comm dorks... like me!

[joethebartender]

I'm pretty sure they ask for some kind of documentation or lineage thing, or at the very least recognize that you're not if you have to meet with admissions.

Just wear one of these when you go to meet with admissions. (oh, and ask when they serve whale blubber in the cafeteria.)
http://www.alaska-in-pictures.com/data/media/21/chena-indian-village_2089.jpg

[A.J.]

It didn't help that the hotel I stayed in the night of my visit was a no-tell hotel in Hamden. People in both rooms on either side were fucking like machines.

Yeah, I remember that place. We had some great parties in there in high school.

The scarier part? So did my Dad when HE went to Quinnipiac!

[WampusCrandle]

I'm pretty sure they ask for some kind of documentation or lineage thing, or at the very least recognize that you're not if you have to meet with admissions.

i really hope you get in! i'm sure you will!

[ahhdurr]

School of Hard Knocks in
Whatsamatta U wait listed

Drjoek: You got a fuckin' problem?

Patient: Yeah, uhh - :huh:doctor... that's why I came to your office...

Out of High School:
Colorado College or University? - (wanted the change of scenery) accepted
Manhattan College - (second choice but older bro/sis went here so :tongue:) accepted
Univ. of Scranton: accepted did 3 years
Rutgers Univ. (RC) Rejected!
Rutgers Univ. (LC) Rejected! (which was a surprise to me - my grades and SAT's had to be good enough from what I've seen since)

after Scranton and a little kicking around I reapplied to RC and was accepted and graduated from there. Now it's all RU/SAS ... I'm happy to have gone during the tail end of elitism there :happy:

[grlNIN]

I'm not sure what your major is, but if you're worried about the high school style social class cliques at Monmouth, there's more of an even playing field at MU. Yes, plenty of rich snobby kids go there, but there was a lot of shenanigans from the Comm dorks... like me!

Womens Studies, which they dont offer as a major or a minor and their whole catalog generally sucks in my opinion.

I don't care about cliques of social class, i am a grown woman and do not have time to play such childish games in pursuit of my degrees.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Womens Studies, which they dont offer as a major or a minor and their whole catalog generally sucks in my opinion.

I don't care about cliques of social class, i am a grown woman and do not have time to play such childish games in pursuit of my degrees.

Understandable. And if you need an answer about the qualities of MU's women's studies program, I aced my Women's Studies class. I think that about sums it up.

[ahhdurr]

I was a pretty good track/cross country runner in high school, but not good enough to get an athletic scholarship anywhere. I found that a lot of schools encourage walk-ons for their non-revenue sports, so I sent my applications directly to the track coaches at Carnegie Mellon and Virginia Tech rather to the admissions department and ended up being accepted when I probably wouldn't have otherwise.

That tip is money. I will impress the shit out of someone with that someday.

[drjoek]

Thin envelopes ~ April 1st :down::glurps:

[drusilla]

stuff i can remember:

Northeastern (attended due to giant scholarship)
penn state (big but not giant scholarship offerered)
bu (big but not giant scholarship offerered)
buffalo
oneonta (offered admission just because i wrote their name down on a list)
geneseo
u of maryland
stony brook (wait listed)
nyu - no offer (which i think had to do with the fact that my entire high school applied & some of us had to get the shaft) they didn't even have my major so i dont even know why i applied.

after 2 1/2 years i needed out of northeastern & boston so i applied to hofstra since it had my major (which is not very popular or well known) & i graduated 2 years later.


applied & got accepted to for grad school:

adelphi
manhattan
teachers college, columbia university (attended & recommend everyone go to for health education if you don't want to do a single thing for 2 years & come out with a degree from an ivy league.)

[Tenbatsuzen]

Thin envelopes ~ April 1st :down::glurps:

The thin vs. thick envelopes is kind of BS nowadays.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

That meant boozin' aplenty!


The Jesuits at Fordham had there own bar on campus. Oh yeahhhhh! :laugh:

[drjoek]

The thin vs. thick envelopes is kind of BS nowadays.

How so?

[EliSnow]

Yale - Accepted and attended
Harvard - Denied (showed those fuckers by sacking the Harvard quarterback in the freshman game).
Dartmouth - Accepted
St. John's (MN) - Accepted
Carleton - Accepted
I may also have applied to Penn. but the football coaches weren't interested after seeing my HS football tapes. Showed them too by sacking the quarterback in a varsity game sophmore year.

Law school:
NYU - Accepted and attended
Fordham - Accepted
Univ. of MN - Accepted
Univ. of Wisconsin - Accepted

[MacVittie]

Vassar - accepted
Geneseo - accepted

[Tenbatsuzen]

How so?

A lot of colleges send thin envelopes no matter what the answer is, and have you either register online or your registration comes separate.

[A.J.]

Yale - Accepted and attended
Harvard - Denied (showed those fuckers by sacking the Harvard quarterback in the freshman game).
Dartmouth - Accepted
St. John's (MN) - Accepted
Carleton - Accepted
I may also have applied to Penn. but the football coaches weren't interested after seeing my HS football tapes. Showed them too by sacking the quarterback in a varsity game sophmore year.

Law school:
NYU - Accepted and attended
Fordham - Accepted
Univ. of MN - Accepted
Univ. of Wisconsin - Accepted


I suddenly feel the need to go out and by a sports car and a big gun.

[EliSnow]

I suddenly feel the need to go out and by a sports car and a big gun.

I can tell you where I got mine.

[TheGameHHH]

Gettysburg (Accepted)
Franklin & Marshall (Accepted and attended)
Bucknell (Denied.....with possibly the meanest rejection letter I've ever seen)
Wake Forrest (Wait-listed)
Villanova (Wait-listed and Summer Wait-Listed......I wanted to go there sooooo bad)

[A.J.]

The Jesuits at Fordham had there own bar on campus. Oh yeahhhhh! :laugh:

I would have been like John Blutarsky if we had a bar on campus.

Thank God for that fake NJ ID I had and the cool old guy who ran the liquor store near the campus that never carded. Cases of Busch Light cans for $5 back in the day!

[Thebazile78]

I've heard the same thing about Rutgers from a lot of friends from various High Schools.

I am counting on my poverty as the diversity factor to get me in.

Rutgers just overhauled undergraduate education to standardize admissions and graduation requirements within the last year and a half. If you're talking with friends who graduated high school when you did/were supposed to, their experience should be different from your experience.

You are also applying as a transfer student, which can be tougher, but there used to be a program where if you met certain requirements at a NJ community college, you had a nearly guaranteed place at Rutgers. I don't know if this program still exists or if it's changed with the new structure of the University. However, I knew quite a few transfer students out of Brookdale while I was there, so RU loves the students out of Brookdale!

Before the changes to undergrad education (when I was there), it was kind of like how you stack up to the applications that admissions officer reviewed on that particular day. (I used to work with Undergrad Admissions and ran into this all the time.)

Oh ... and to answer the thread, my applications went to:

Rutgers University - New Brunswick (gave me the most financial aid & I wanted to go somewhere where I could be lost in a crowd ... unfortunately, I had a knack for making myself known. Even in lecture classes, the profs knew who I was!)
Rutgers College: in, attended, graduated in 2000, BA in English Literature; double minor in History & Art History
Livingston College: in, did not affiliate because the residential campus is a parking lot
Douglass College: in, did not affiliate because the residential campus is all women and in the woods ... with a BAD part of town nearby

AS A CAVEAT: the restructuring of the undergraduate colleges and schools has eliminated the individual college structure for a liberal arts/liberal sciences degree program and unified admissions and graduation requirements and standards. You no longer apply to separate colleges on your RU application, unless you are considering Biological/Environmental Sciences (School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, formerly Cook College), Fine/Performing Arts (Mason Gross School of the Arts), Engineering (School of Engineering) or Pharmacy (Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy) ... this is OK, though because my experience at Rutgers was that everybody (and I mean EVERYBODY) took their classes all together because there was one faculty (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) to teach all the classes. Each individual college's graduation requirements and honors programs and mission statements differed, however, so you had lots of people with the same major with different general education requirements for graduation. It was hard to explain to parents, especially the nervous ones, that their baby was going to be FINE and little Muffy would still meet boys even if she was only accepted at Douglass.

William Paterson University: in, did not attend because it was too close to home and I didn't get enough financial aid

Montclair State University: in, did not attend for similar reasons to WPU

I looked at other schools from a distance ... but the cost issue and the fact that I didn't have a drivers' license made it pointless to apply to more than three schools anyway.

[Thebazile78]

I'm pretty sure they ask for some kind of documentation or lineage thing, or at the very least recognize that you're not if you have to meet with admissions.

Oh, and "meet with admissions"? At Rutgers? As a transfer?

Are you naive?

They never do interviews unless you're a theatre or music performance major at Mason Gross.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I would have been like John Blutarsky if we had a bar on campus.

Thank God for that fake NJ ID I had and the cool old guy who ran the liquor store near the campus that never carded. Cases of Busch Light cans for $5 back in the day!

Oops-- I meant it was just for the priests. The students had to venture off campus into the wilds of the Bronx to get snockered.

[grlNIN]

Oh, and "meet with admissions"? At Rutgers? As a transfer?

Are you naive?

They never do interviews unless you're a theatre or music performance major at Mason Gross.

I know Rutgers doesn't meet with transfers students, i am not naive but thanks for insult.

[El Mudo]

I got accepted to South Carolina and a small college in Pennsylvania...really wanted to go to Mississippi but never applied there


Ended up going to Community College and then the University of Maryland on account of not having enough money...

I got no regrets

[Thebazile78]

I know Rutgers doesn't meet with transfers students, i am not naive but thanks for insult.

I didn't mean to be insulting. I guess I probably just took your exchange with joethebartender too seriously. The point I was trying to make was that they don't even meet with freshmen, unless you're a performance or fine arts (forgot about fine arts majors' portfolios) major. And even then, it's not really admissions who you're meeting with; it's the department heads at the professional schools.

Having worked with undergrad admissions, albeit 10 years ago (ouch; that feels really painful), the memories of parents wanting to set up interviews and appointments with Corinne Webb (who was the Departmental Director for Undergraduate Admissions while I was there and the name on every piece of correspondence from RU to applicants) because their little darling absolutely couldn't possibly have been wait listed came flooding back ... and I posted without thinking about its impact.

[acinlet]

Rutgers-got wait listed to RC out of high School, so i went to another school then got wait listed for SAS initially while trying to transfer. Eventually got accepted and attend currently

PITT-Went there Freshman year but transferred. Now wish I had stayed

TEMPLE- Did offer me some scholarship money which I should have considered. It's in a terrible area but I have family in that area. The last white flight holdouts who now live in gentrified hipsterville

Wish i would have applied to some private schools to see if I could've gotten in with some financial aid