<p>So what schools do you all have in mind right now?</p>
<p>@6alibah Purdue, UT-Austin, Georgia Tech, Wichita State, all for Aerospace Engineering</p>
<p>@6alibah Well my dream college would be Stanford </p>
<p>Teir 1: Stanford
Teir 2: MIT, Harvey Mudd, UC Berkeley, UCLA
Teir 3: Cal Tech, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego.</p>
<p>@6alibah
Reach: Claremont Mckenna (1st choice), Northwestern (2nd choice), Harvard (3rd choice)
Match: Bucknell, U of Rochester,
Safety: Mercer, Mt Mercy, U of Alabama, Albright, </p>
<p>International:
Reach: U of Cambridge
Match: U of Melbourne
Safety: HKUST</p>
<p>How much is distance a factor on which college you want to go to for y’all? For me, I really don’t want to go to a college that is to close (5-30 minute drive) or a college too far (more than a 10 hour drive). I really like Ivy Leagues and MIT but my only problem is paying for plane tickets over there when I need to because I’m not very wealthy. I’m not willing to pay $600 for a plane ticket home and back. Stanford, Berkeley, UCSB and Harvey Mudd are ideal for me because they aren’t too far or too close to where I live (Pasadena). Cal Tech is a great school but I really don’t want to live at home when I go to college.</p>
<p>@hailbo Ivy colleges would be ideal for me since I live in New York. I generally agree with what you say but I also love schools in California because of the weather (so sick of the snow in NY) and also my parents support me because of the large Chinese population in California</p>
<p>@hailbo For me i just want to get out of Texas… As long as the school is good in the major i want and it’s not in Texas, i’m fine with it. But my parents have differing ideals on that (cost), as evidenced with UT Austin as one of my options.
@alzhao Interesting that you mention the large Chinese population in California. That’s precisely the 1 reason i’m not looking at schools there. Living in a city where half the kids are asian of some sort, i don’t really want to go to college somewhere where the majority of the kids there are asian (although i’m chinese myself haha). </p>
<p>@hailbo I’m basically free, since I know my parents can move wherever, I won’t know whether the college I go to will be home for a few years or not. Hopefully, they’ll move out of the country, not in a mean way or anything.</p>
<p>@alzhao Are you Chinese? The Chinese population in SF (at least in my experience) are super connected to Christianity. Some won’t be as religious, but they’re connected to each other </p>
<p>@anonemuss Unless you go to UCB or UCLA, you won’t run into a huge majority of Asians at any school, especially Stanford and the Claremont Consortium, some of the best colleges here. You shouldn’t let that worry you too much. Stanford is in Palo Alto, which while having a larger portion of Chinese than other places in the country, really doesn’t have that large a population of Chinese. I live here, btw. Claremont Consortium is a ways away from LA, which houses most of the Chinese around there. </p>
<p>@anonemuss Haha yeah I don’t know why but I tend to lean towards Asians more (maybe just because not that many where I live)
@Woandering yes I am Chinese. Hmm funny that you mention large Christian population since my family is Christian too. </p>
<p>@halibo:
MIT is “teir (sic) 2”? LOL</p>
<p>As for school distance, I want to get as far away as possible (preferably somewhere in New England). I bloody hate this backwater town. Too many idiotic, religious people. </p>
<p>@Woandering
Answered your questions in the other thread.</p>
<p>I’m pretty set on going out of state (or at least really far from my current city) for personal reasons and to pretty much just experience someplace new. </p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt </p>
<p>The only reason I put it at Teir 2 is because of the distance for home, the tiers aren’t really an indicator of the prestige of the school, just the order of how badly I would like to go there. Like why Cal Tech is in Teir 3, it’s way to close to my house.</p>
<p>You guys are boring. Spice this thread up now. <em>snaps fingers</em></p>
<p>@Chachiii Did you create an account to say that^^^?</p>
<p>@Smrtical
Cue poorly choreographed Spice Girls song/Salt-and-Pepper</p>
<p>(A-Push it!)</p>
<p>@Chachiii Oh, I had an inkling it was you. Something about the style of your pictures.</p>
<p>I honestly couldn’t be bothered to even attempt understanding everything you guys have been talking about for the last 20 something pages…</p>
<p>Finally went through the huge college debate you guys had going. Interesting stuff.</p>
<p>I have a question for you all: any of you planning to compete in the Olympiads at your school this year? How does it work at your school?</p>
<p>@Almondjoy7 </p>
<p>I didn’t really get to explicate my position, being that it was very late/early in the morning when I wrote it and I was tired. Essentially, what I’m trying to say is that despite what many of us think, the college we attend will have very little impact on our lives over other colleges. What will really dramatically change us are the relationships and activities we partake in now and then, things that don’t depend on the college, and things that can bring success anywhere.</p>