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3.30.2003
More news from NYUWell, I got the official acceptance letter from NYU yesterday, and they said they're giving me about $25,000 to go there! This is all well and good, but I think I still have my heart set on non-NYU schools.. Speaking of non-NYU schools, I still haven't heard a thing from any of them.. I guess it's not necessarily a bad thing, since the notification date is a few days away (all around April 1 - 4 or so), but I don't know.. I've heard from all of the crappier schools already, I think it's time to hear something from the others, whether it's good news or bad. Hopefully good news though. I was really pissed off that my dad opened up my BU envelope when I got the acceptance letter.. But I guess he was too excited to wait until I got home. He told me that he'd wait the next time.. We'll see.. 3.26.2003
InfluxWell, I've heard from a few schools during the past few months.. Rutgers, as previously stated, has given me a free ride for 4 years.. I got into NYU.. Boston U gave me a 1/2 tuition scholarship, which is relatively nice, but in reality, cutting the cost of BU tuition in half is like just paying to go to a more reputable school. So it doesn't really mean much I suppose. The fact is, I really don't want to go to any of those three schools.. My heart was initially set on UPenn, but now I think I'm having doubts. I'm hearing horror stories from Jamieline, who is a freshman there right now. After doing no work for a few years here in high school, the last thing I want right now is having to study day and night, doing all sorts of projects, reports, and papers.. So, my interests slowly shifted towards Columbia.. Seemed like an incredible school, but I've heard bad things from Hubie and a few other kids.. Supposedly everyone there is an elitist snob, cliquish and cold. I guess I have an advantage in that field though, since my high school is practically the same way. It doesn't bother me much, since I'm not a groupie, and of course, I loves me some dorks! Especially since I'm the big cheese of dorks, of course. Of course. I never really liked Cornell, in that it's out in the middle of the boondocks of Ithaca.. up in the mountains, far away from anything. The people I know who go there describe it as a boring hell hole that is inescapable. Things are dead there. It also has the highest rate of suicide among all US colleges, which probably isn't a good statistic to have attributed to a college. I don't know. It just doesn't appeal to me much. Then there's the two "reach" schools I applied to, Harvard and Yale, whose admissions officers probably laughed and danced drunkenly on my application. There's no way I'd get in there. I don't even want to go there, even if I do get in. I'm too low key (read: stupid) to go there and follow all the subject material. I think aesthetically, UPenn is still at the top of my list.. and I'd love to be near Philly but still adjacent to my home state. All I know is, I don't think I can go back to studying hard.. I need a nice school to relax in. And study a little. Maybe. Only time will tell, I guess... They're sending out decisions within the next 2 weeks or so, so I'll be able to decide then. I think chances are slim that I'll get into any of the schools I haven't heard from yet.. The thing is, it doesn't bother me much, since I know that I'm not exactly the top of the line. But my parents will probably tear me a new undesireable hole, if you know what I'm sayin. Oh well. I guess we'll see when the time comes. :( |
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