<p>If so, what was your reaction?
If not, did you get into another school that satisfied you?</p>
<p>My dream school was CMU for either SCS or ECE. I got waitlisted at SCS but got in ECE 
I was pretty excited xD Actually I was freaking out lol. But I can’t go because of tuition. CMU is 60k a year, and with financial aid, 30k a year. I also got into Berkeley and I would only have to pay 6k a year. So yeah. It’s a huge deal. xD But it’s okay because I love Cal :)</p>
<p>yes, yes I did.</p>
<p>There were several private schools I would have liked to attend, but did not apply to because they were unaffordable.</p>
<p>Instead, I applied to several UCs and CSUs. My top choice, UCSD, accepted me but after getting into UCLA I looked into it more and decided to go there instead.</p>
<p>And then I just wasted a year on GEs and [one</a> class](<a href=“https://www.lscore.ucla.edu/courses.php]one”>https://www.lscore.ucla.edu/courses.php) relating to my [major[/url</a>], which I decided at the end of the year I wanted to [url=<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog12-13-238.htm]change[/url”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog12-13-238.htm]change[/url</a>] anyways. But I hadn’t met their curricular requirement for transferring into that department and meeting the requirement would be a big catch-22, so I said f*** you and your bureaucratic nonsense and I left.</p>
<p>Now I’m at a [url=<a href=“http://fullcoll.edu%5Dcommunity”>http://fullcoll.edu]community</a> college](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog12-13-546.htm]major[/url”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog12-13-546.htm) enrolled in classes that are actually related to what I want to learn (and they’ve helped me in real life already), living in the moment and not worrying about what happens next.</p>
<p>Nope, but I’m perfectly happy with where I’m going next year.</p>
<p>Yes but my dream school isn’t exactly what most people think of when they think of their dream school. </p>
<p>I made a list of everything I wanted in a school and that was my “dream school”. I found a school, it fit my description (plus more!), I got in, and that’s where I’m going.</p>
<p>Stanford. Nope. In fact, most people at my school got rejected from the top-tier elite privates despite us being a very competitive class, lol. 20 of us going to Berkeley.
No big deal though. I’ll be heading to UIUC studying CS/ECE, and I must admit I love it there.</p>
<p>I’m pretty happy/excited about Berkeley. I believe it was the one I dreamed of at some point haha (I never got attached to colleges so the rejection sting wouldn’t be harsh). I thought it was the most difficult to get into out of where I applied, but USC dropped to 19 something and UCLA is a 20 something percent acceptance rate.</p>
<p>UCLA was the only school that rejected me : (. Shoulda studied more for the SAT, but oh well! I live near LA, so would have definitely gone there.</p>
<p>I was hoping for an Ivy League like Columbia/Brown or UChicago but after getting flat out rejected from the first two and waitlisted by UChicago I was pretty down in the dumps. However, the day after I got my Ivy rejections I got my acceptance letter from NYU, a school I just randomly applied to by copying and pasting essays with no intention of ever going just because I thought it was below my standards (I had done no research whatsoever into NYU). However, when I realized I got into Stern, one of the best business schools in the country in the middle of the big city (I love urban life) with a 60k scholarship I realized that NYU is my idea of a dream school</p>
<p>@nejworld: similar story here. I learned about UIUC literally the day before the application was due. BSed an essay by copy-pasting parts from the many essays I’d written. Applied, got in, but didn’t intend on going there. I did some research though and it turned out I got into a top 10 school for engineering with very good FA in a nice, pleasant micro-urban area.</p>
<p>Makes you realize that Ivy Leagues can be pretty overrated.</p>
<p>I got in. </p>
<p>My reaction: “Merp.”</p>