<p>Did any of you go to visit another college that you really wanted to see. and figured that another college was on the way, (one you didn’t really care about at that time.) But ended up going there, and fell in love with the college you didn’t really think much of?</p>
<p>This happend to me when I was getting ready to head up to Miami University(OH) and my parents told me I needed to find another one, so I just ended up throwing out Indiana University, and that ended up being the one I want to attend, and fell in love with.</p>
<p>yup this happened to me!! i went to see hamilton in ny and we got lost and ended up at colgate and i loved it. i ended up not even applying to hamilton</p>
<p>Tulane! I only applied their initally becasuse they sent me so much mail, that I finally got annoyed and applied. Over the past few months however they’ve moved into being my second choice, behind UCLA.</p>
<p>Uconn. For years I swore to people that I would never ever ever go there. I thought it was too much of a party schools, and that it was crappy. I looked into it more, and went there and I fell in love with it. So most likely I will go there next year.</p>
<p>Never ever thought I’d be attending Princeton in the fall, especially not a year ago. I’d sworn off all Ivy League schools, and was more than content with going to UT, USC, or NYU. And of the Ivies, I definitely wouldn’t have picked Princeton a year ago.</p>
<p>But things change, people change, I fell in love with Sondra Huxtable. And if she “went” there, then it must be good, eh? Go tigers!</p>
<p>I was searching the internet for college about two years ago, and on an impulse decided to do Princeton Review’s Councelor o matic thing. Well, it showed my #1 match as McGill University in Montreal. I’d been considering schools around home (seattle), my mom had mentioned looking into Canadian schools but I didn’t think much of it. I mentioned to her and two some friends, things like “hey, I saw this cool school, but it’s way up in montreal with the socialist french who don’t like Americans!”. The name kept coming up again and again for me, and I decided to apply there in addition to some other schools that were more realistic locations.</p>
<p>Well, I didn’t end up in Washington state anywhere, or British Columbia, or Alberta. I ended up at McGill in Montreal. haha</p>
<p>wow im annoyed. i just tried that councelor o matic crap, and it came up with no results. i went back, changed almost everything to “i dont care” and it still came back with no results…</p>
<p>no haha our directions got us lost and then we saw a sign for hamilton and we assumed it was better to take that exit cuz it had to be somewhere near the college, and then when we were inside the town we saw a college so we thought it would be hamilton but when we drove in we saw that it was colgate and we liked it so we just stopped.</p>
<p>I visited Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and ended up hating it. My mom suggested we visit neighboring Mount Holyoke College even though I was still miffed about Smith and didn’t want to look at any other women’s colleges. Even though it was about 50 degrees out and raining, I ended loving it on sight. My advice to all prospective students would be to visit all the colleges you are considering, if possible. I cannot tell you how many schools, such as Smith, I loved on paper but was disappointed with in real life.</p>
<p>Well, believe it or not, I really had no idea what type of college Duke was or where it is located before this year, and now it is my number 1 or number 2 school (Decisions come on the 30th–I’m panicking). Anyway, this other person from my school was really in love with Duke and started carrying around a viewbook to every class. At first I thought he was a bit nuts, but I slowly began to figure out that Duke was a really nice school. Finally, since I am applying to Harvard, I went to an info meeting with Harvard, Duke, Georgetown, and UPenn there. Although I went for Harvard, I ended up spending the whole time with the adcom from Duke instead. I fell in love with the school and now I cannot wait to end my suffering while waiting for decisions. I really don’t know what I’ll do if I get in. You’ll probably all be able to hear me scream. If I don’t, then whatever. I am expecting a rejection anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah I had actually fallen in love with U of I in the years past when I went to state science fair in 8th grade (and back each year for when my sister went to pom state) the beginning of my senior year I did not want to go there b/c they didn’t have film. I wanted to major in film and chemE (b/c that makes sense). Then U of I kept giving me all of these nice things and I kind of just ended up there and I gradually accepted it but then just grew to love it all over again. It didn’t take long. I think it was hidden there somewhere all of these years.</p>
<p>When filling out my UC apps, I wasn’t even going to apply to UCI but my parents encouraged me to. But then, I got a scholarship and honors program, and here I am as a first year enjoying my time here :)</p>
<p>I have a neighbor who was accepted to and planned to attend UCSD, so she and her family went down there in April for Admit Weekend. Well, they decided to drop in on USD (where she had also been accepted), and let’s just say she’s now a junior at USD!</p>