Class of 2015 Architecture Acceptances

Matt34Bears
Tue, 07 Jul 2015 04:22:54 +0000

Hello everyone!
It’s been a while since I posted in here (literally back in January), so I have quite a bit of developments with my own endeavors to share. Mostly I am looking for some guidance on what course of action you would choose if you were in my place.

So I accepted at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for their Architecture program (it’s cool if you’ve never heard of the school Lol, but it is the only Wisconsin school for architecture…also btw I’m from Illinois). There were two primary reasons I chose UWM, the price and my acceptance into the Honors College. The other two schools I was considering heavily at this time were University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and University of Cincinnati (UC). I was pushed away from UIUC because it is the “state school”, and I felt like everyone from my high school was going there. Essentially, I was looking for something a little more adventurous. Also, I would prefer a larger city, but a college town is okay as long as there are plenty of things to keep me busy haha. University of Cincinnati fit a lot of my criteria, but the main sticking point for them was cost. Not that I couldn’t afford it, but if I chose somewhere else I would have more room left over for paying for graduate school. In fact, when I accepted at UWM, I told my parents, “I would be choosing UC right now if they were the same price as UWM.” So of course time passes and I realize the weight of my decision. So I called UC today and they said their program still has 4 openings for this fall. UC financial aid also told me that the scholarship they offered me is still available. The problem is that housing is already filled so I would have to live off campus (and that would really suck freshman year). I thought maybe what I should do is take freshman year at UWM and then transfer to UC into sophomore year, but the architecture program is very strict and will not accept transfer students. So basically my three options are:

1. Stay at UWM all four years

2. Run around and switch to UC for four years

3. Take freshman year at UWM and transfer to U of I if I don’t like it at UWM.

When advising me, please keep in mind the thoughts I have deliberated on above and feel free to ask for clarification or a more detailed answer to something. I could write a novel about my thoughts on every school and this process, but I didn’t want it to be any longer than it already is.

And if you’ve made it this far…congrats. You deserve an internet cookie for reading all of that