How do I stop having a dream school?

Carpe_Aeternum
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:16:32 +0000

Been there, done that. Still doing it. :)

As was suggested, focus the energy you are putting towards your top-tier school into where you think your second choice might be. I never go on the website for my dream school. Instead, I fight the urge by clicking around the sites of my other choices. I take virtual tours, even though I’ve already been to the campuses. I read the policies of the schools. I research the schools using Google. I do not have my reach school bookmarked, but I do have most of the other ones bookmarked. When people ask me where I want to go to college, I try to remember to reply by saying, “I’ve been accepted at/ should get in at X, Y, and Z” rather than “I REALLY want to get in at A, but I don’t think I will.” I follow this up by saying something like reiterating a positive aspect of a school I’ve just named: “It would be great to go to school in FL,” or, “I just love how at X they…” rather than worry out loud about a reach school.