<p>I’m starting to have serious doubts about my college situation.
I live in Nevada and I am planning on double-majoring in Political Science and History. I don’t want to go to either of the local state schools (University of Nevada - Las Vegas or University of Nevada - Reno) because I want to be able to have the full college experience, rather than commuting from home, and I want to avoid going to school with people from my high school (most of which are going to Reno).
I’ve applied and been accepted to University of Utah, Boise State University, University of Iowa, Northern Arizona University, and Southern Utah University. For various reasons, the only one of these schools I’m seriously considering is the University of Utah. However, after reading student reviews through the internet I’ve started to get serious doubts about going there. I want the full college experience and I feel that Utah, which seems more like a commuter school because only 10% of the student population lives on campus, cannot provide that. I also feel that I wouldn’t enjoy myself as much in Utah because I am not LDS and I’m not a very outdoorsy person.
I’m starting to think that I want to go to a different school. One that I haven’t applied to yet. But the problem is that a lot universities’ application deadlines have passed.
I feel really guilty about having these doubts so late in the game and now my opportunities to go to other schools has slipped by.</p>
<p>I’m looking for State Universities whose application deadlines haven’t passed by yet.
What are my options?</p>
<p>“What are my options?”
a) Make the best choice you can from the places you’ve been accepted.
FWIW, I’ve visited U Iowa (briefly), it seems to be in a really good college town.
or
b) apply to colleges for start the following semester ?</p>
<p>I know several people who went to the University of Iowa, they met there and performed together as a comedy group for many years. They apparently had a great time, saying that Iowa City and UI was a lot of fun. I don’t know about the academics but they’ve all had very interesting and successful lives and are very bright. This doesn’t shed any light on Political Science or History, but Iowa City does seem to be a good college town, as monydad said. Can you visit?</p>
<p>The Iowa caucuses will be going on again during the time OP will be in college, those are probably interesting for somebody interested in politics and government.</p>
<p>Iowa is a good value for OOS students. We could probably look up a bunch of schools who’s deadlines haven’t yet passed, but for the full college experience, I’d doubt they’d top Iowa.</p>
<p>New College of Florida is April 25th, I believe. And they have a “plug in your numbers” feature on their website to show you how much scholarship money you would get (one for in-state, one for out-of-state, the latter being bigger scholarships for bigger tuition).</p>