<p>I’ve been a member on here for a while and have never posted anything in the belief that there were others on here that needed advice desperately and I would be wasting people’s time. I firmly believed that the answer to my quest would just plop out of the sky on a silver platter (okay, maybe a bit more like a feeling of rightness) and I didn’t post. I doubt I have ever operated on a more wrong assumption in my life.
In any case, I need to sound like an obnoxious poster who talks about all their stats all the time and nothing else. I got a decent GPA (3.8 out of 4.0) and a decent average of SAT Scores (1890 out of 2400). I’ve got several EC’s that are kind of unique, just like thousands of others on here.
I got full scholarship through some sources to my Local Penn State and a women’s college in the Midwest (think 1700 miles from home). I’ve been invited to the women’s colleges’ honors program, and I have applied to Penn State’s. My family thinks that Penn State at home is the greatest thing since sliced bread and the smallpox vaccine. The women’s college really seems to take care of their students and it has great traditions and social life, plus good academics and small classes. I like the small, close knit, traditionally infused environment. My family says there are many places like that, so any ideas? For my mother’s sake, I also applied to a small university near where I live that is really nice, but I don’t know if I got in.
You’d think then, what’s this girl got to complain about, right? Indeed, I feel kind of guilty. I just don’t know if there are other places too, that I should apply to. I really want to major in Anthropology or a related field as well as something that may give me teaching credentials. It’s important, in my family, to get solid internships in the governmental and private sectors. I’d like too, as well. And I think I’d qualify, it’s just that I’d like a school that fits me and can allow me meet my goals.
I don’t know, when many of my friends are going off to Duke, and Dickinson, and GWU and when they applied to 8 schools, I worry that I didn’t do enough. I worry that I haven’t found the place that will make me happy and appease my family, and make them comfortable, too. I know this sounds petty, and maybe I am being that way. I just don’t want to be complacent and allow life to pass me by.
So my questions are these: what would you do? Are there any other schools you would apply to? Etc… Also, if anybody else is feeling this way and wants to talk over a virtual carton of Ben and Jerry’s, I’m always here. 
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<p>Thanks Again, for listening! Happy New Year! :-)</p>