<p>While we are sorry to see a very good student go elsewhere, we also know each decision is very personal. We wish you the very best at Marquette. Its a fine Jesuit school. </p>
<p>My best advice is to send in your deposit, IF ITS A FINAL DECISION (you have until May 1), close the book on college applications and buy the gear and look forward. When you arrive at Marquette in the fall, keep the values you were raised with, avoid the party animals like the plague (they are a plague of locusts, I can assure you!) and focus on your studies and making the right kind of friends with the same values and study habits.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>