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Loading ...Yesterday, my Facebook homepage was a down-trodden, somewhat angry, recession-blaming sea of status messages. Yep, UC Davis decisions came out – they were not pretty. Outside of the ELC kids (minus me & S. who’d forgotten to turn in our forms) who’d been guaranteed in months ago, only a handful of more had been accepted. As the word-of-month so eloquently puts it, the undeserving lazy-ass portion of the males got in (exceptions of course) while the more harder-working part of the girls got their actual just deserts.
Nevertheless, there were a scary amount who had not gotten in. Should we blame it on the quickly snowballing recession? I think that’s only a minor part of it. Where will this leave students? Will they start turning towards other forms of education, such as online colleges or universities abroad? It doesn’t help that the honors & AP populace of California see Davis as the universally accepted safety.
This got me thinking–as if I ever really stopped–about my own list of colleges & the near future. These are the schools I applied to, a list of 8 that would probably have been better as 6. They are listed in order of proximity to home, and therefore reverse desirability. I’m only (mostly) kidding.
disclaimer: not my pictures; follow links for credits
UC Berkeley
23.8 mi | Every Asian parent's dream to some extent. Perhaps that's why I always had an aversion to this place. But duty calls. I used to wave the Stanford flag over this place when everyone wanted to go in junior high, but you'll notice that the said school didn't even make it onto schools I cared to apply for.
UC Davis
91.2 mi | Ah, yes - this place. I wish I hadn't applied now, because honestly, I would never attend and someone who actually wanted to get in might have. Unfortunately, the UC system (and college admissions in general) is just one huge numbers game of super lotto.
UCLA
315 mi | If I got into both (or had to choose one), I would take this over Berkeley. Of course, getting in to either remains two huge IFs.
UC San Diego
423 mi | Is the sixth college supposed to be all that bad? Nevertheless, results came in for this before even Davis, so - anticlimactic. But happy-making all the same.
University of Pennsylvania
2,501 mi| Dream school once upon a time. Then I visited it in person sophomore year. Shattered dreams. Then I had to actually fill out application. I did so much research on this place it made me want to go very badly again. Yes, Whorton, we do toe the line of love and hate, don't we? Minuscule percent chance of getting in anyway, so no worries there.
New York University
2,552 mi | Well, I got in; now for the official letter on the moolah. That same visit East that plowed my Penn ideal built up my Manhattan-campus playground replacement. Deary me.
Columbia
2,553 mi | Because it's in New York City.
Fordham
2,556 mi | Fordham needs (and will get) an entire post of its own. For a school I never expected to apply to, it is hovering of the moment as one I may most likely attend. I got in Early Action, meaning honestly - I really shouldn't have applied to Davis. It also happens to be in NYC.
Simply judging from what you’ve heard of these schools or the pictures I’ve helpfully (but somewhat misleadingly) provided, what schools would you choose?
Hmm… probably NYC out of the list. But I definitely agree with going where they give the most aid. Especially since tuition and housing rates are going up every year.
hahaha you must be a genius or something to be able to apply to those schools. i was accepted at NYU so it couldn’t be that hard.
i’m loving the way UC san diego is looking lol especially being stuck in the cold as i am.
the new facebook makes me stressed lol
Lol – hardly genius. I’m more worried about money than getting into NYU (stuck up as that sounds
), since they give horrible aid/scholarship.
Haha – I noticed that all the schools in california are bright and sunny pictures while the ones on the east (minus Penn) have depressingly bare trees.