<p>Thanks for the very (and I mean very) informative post, alamemom! I highly doubt that you really are, as you seem to think, ‘lame’. It’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it? 
Thanks for the positive outlook because generally, looking at colleges is depressing work.
I really appreciate all the links and statistics as well. I’ve already seen the tuition exchange website (and my father told me about it), but I never really looked into it. Now that I do, it seems highly probably that I could expand my college choices at this late time. </p>
<p>As a random side question… Because I really think that my GPA is the thing that is killing me… What if my GPA were at this time a 3.2-3.3 level GPA? I’m curious to know how much a .2 GPA decrease would affect me at this time. Obviously this is a very nitpicky question, but I’m interested in knowing what people out there think.</p>
<p>Many thanks to all the posters who have helped me thus far!</p>