I wish I had applied to Wharton

FutureVpFinance
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:39:09 +0000

Thank you, but I didn’t get into Princeton lol. Maybe I should expand more:

Columbia and Penn were tied at #1 in my mind and heart. My dad didn’t respect Wharton at the undergrad level and asked me to replace it with Princeton, a school I had no interest in ( I’m sure it showed at my interview). I figured I had no chance at the Ivy League anyway, so it didn’t bother me.

Fast forward to today. I was miraculously accepted to Columbia, but rejected from all the other elites. I feel confident that if I had applied to Wharton, my chances would have been good (10% acceptance, compared to Columbia’s 7.4%). But I don’t have that choice, because I took some bad advice from my father.

I’m sure I’ll have fun and do well at Columbia, but for now the “what ifs” are taking over, and it kinda sucks.