<p>I liked a lot of the schools that I have visited, but none of them truly stood out and clicked with me. What factors made you fall in love with your dream school?</p>
<p>You shouldn’t.</p>
<p>^^ wat?</p>
<p>There is no “how to”, it just happens. I visited Penn last month and I loved it, I didn’t do anything in particular to make that happen.</p>
<p>I don’t mean “how to” like an instructional video. I suppose I should have phrased it “what made you fall in love with a school?”</p>
<p>I think part of falling in love with a school, is falling in love with the idea of you going to that school. Similar to how like driving a certain care might change someone’s perception of themselves </p>
<p>Have you fallen in love with other inanimate things before? basically i think you’re either someone who easily falls in love with schools, or doesn’t. I never fell in love with any particular school.</p>
<p>Haha, sorry for misunderstanding your question. When I was at Penn, I envisioned myself sitting in Wharton with a bunch of other smart future leaders. I also went to a football game and threw some toast (if you are unfamiliar with that Penn tradition, don’t worry about it). I experienced what I would imagine I would experience if I do end up attending Penn. I also just love how the place looks, and how it is in the city yet has a distinct campus. </p>
<p>Sorry if I turned on the Penn-love to maximum, but that’s how/why I love Penn.</p>
<p>I fall in love with financial offers, head over heels for full rides. 8)</p>
<p>Going to it.</p>
<p>Once you go to college, it ceases to be a name on a paper and starts being a way of life. It’s easier to fall in love with friends, classes, and traditions than with an idea.</p>
<p>To me, the main draw of any college is the people. </p>
<p>I totally agree with how dfree describes Penn. Seriously, just visit Penn if you want to fall in love (unless you’re afraid of getting your heart broken). I think everyone who visits Penn falls in love. Everyone is nice, fun, smart, ambitious, and in general great to be around. The whole time I was thinking that these are the people I want to surround myself with.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins was all study study study premed study study. I liked the people and the whole rah-rah atmosphere at Duke, but people almost seemed ashamed to appear too smart.</p>
<p>I dunno if I’ve really “fallen in love” with any school, but I know where I’m going because it’s the cheapest, most-logical option for what I want to do with my life. </p>
<p>Maybe the key is deciding to go to a school for <em>real</em> reasons AND THEN falling in love with it.</p>
<p>In my experience, websites can only tell you the basic facts about whether the school could work for you. Explore the sites to see if there’s any component that will help you get a sense of the school and if you want to go there (for me, it’s looking through course catalogs and planning out my potential schedules- it helps me picture myself there). For me, I’ve fallen in love with schools when I visit them- I’ve only completely fallen in love with 2 schools, and it wasn’t specific perks that I learned about as much as this feeling when I got on campus. But it seems to be different for everyone.</p>