<p>I went to Cornell. I love Cornell. I’ve probably recommended to at least 50 people on these boards that they consider applying to Cornell.</p>
<p>But if I had to do it over again, I would go to William and Mary. It really appeals to me. It’s unpretentious and friendly, and it seems to be designed for academic nerds who are not necessarily techies. I would have fit in perfectly.</p>
<p>I would have not started by majoring in Engineering and I would have looked hard at Yale and Georgetown or maybe found an LAC that clicked…I’m sometimes envious of just how well my D has “clicked” in her environment. Of course, to do anything I would have had to have cured not only a defect of imagination but the dire financial circumstances which, coupled with a pathologically damaging dysfunctional family environment, made me grab the engineering work-study program as a path of both least resistance and escape.</p>
<p>I went to a great LAC-Willamette University in Oregon-wonderfully small classes, played tennis w/profs…but…I love football, and feel Cal Berkeley would have been a better match! I would still have doubled majored.</p>
<p>University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Probably major in something that would lead to a law degree then probably JAG in one of the branches of the military.</p>
<p>I had a great college experience, but if i could do it over again, I’d go to Kings Point. I see the stuff LFWB is doing and I am awestruck. I wish I had known about it when I was in HS.</p>
<p>Eons ago, I chose Yale for a variety of reasons, chief among them being (a) that it’s English Department was head-and-shoulders the best in the world at the time, full of dazzling names, and (b) it was the only school to which both I and my best friend had both been admitted. Then, it turned out that I loved just about everything about it, from Day 1 to the day it rejected my firstborn. (Kidding!)</p>
<p>But now, it looks like Harvard has the dazzling English Department. So I would probably choose that one. Of course, it isn’t likely that I would have the opportunity to choose between Harvard and Yale in the modern day, so probably I would have wound up at whatever my safety-ish school would be.</p>
<p>MIT. For years I have admired it, then was finally able to see the campus for the first time when D was visiting other schools in the area (she wasn’t interested in MIT). Walking around the campus, it felt like “home”; I couldn’t help thinking “this is where I was supposed to have been…”.</p>
<p>Back in the day … I was “informed” that I could apply anywhere I wanted, but that I would be going to UConn. Regardless of any potential scholarship aid, UConn was what my parents could afford and could pay for.</p>
<p>Had I a real choice – meaning that magically the money would have come from somewhere and I could have pursued dreams – I probably would have looked very seriously at Cornell CALS pre-vet/animal science followed by vet school. My first visit to Cornell was 2003 and my son is a current freshman – it would have been a great fit!</p>
<p>And I might have been a vet instead of a pet store owner!</p>
<p>SMITH! And I’d have double majored in Women’s Studies and Creative Writing so I could be a feminist poet.</p>
<p>Of course, I wouldn’t have been able to afford either my kid or this computer, so I wouldn’t be here on CC with all of you…</p>
<p>Scholarly me: Oxford (a joint honors philosophy course - surprise, surprise)</p>
<p>Fun-loving me: Syracuse Communications (the budding radio intelligentsia talk show host)</p>
<p>Earthy me: Cornell (animal behavior)</p>
<p>Wild Fantasy me: (the one with star talent): Tisch - Musical Theatre</p>
<p>I went to Brandeis and would go again. Two of my professors went to bat for me at the start of my career and have stayed in touch for 30 years. Some of my closest friends today are from my freshman dorm. My son has applied and would be a lot more interested in the school if his mom weren’t so ga-ga over it. Can’t say I blame him for wanting to find a school that would be all his own.</p>
<p>Bob’s College of Knowledge.</p>
<p>University of Phoenix</p>
<p>For those of us thinking somewhere else might have been a better fit…there’s always Elderhostel! Although some of us may need to wait until we’re 55. </p>
<p>Just make sure the courses take place on the college campus, and not offsite.</p>
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<p>Actually, I have a very good friend who won the Yale Award for her first book of poetry. She teaches at a large, Midwestern school, and is quite comfortable, I believe.</p>
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<p>Well, I’d always heard there’d be one. So that’s her, huh? Cool. ;)</p>
<p>I went to William and Mary and absolutely loved it. But I must admit, on a busniess trip to LA I visited Pomona/Claremont I fantasized about winter in SOCAL.</p>
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<p>LOL! Somehow, I don’t think poetry provides a comfortable living, but it has made her semi-famous and certainly helped her get tenure.</p>
<p>Today I’d go to Brown. I like the lack of requirements (and I think I’d have taken a variety of courses anyway). I’d like to have take courses at RISD as well.</p>
<p>Great question, mathmom!</p>
<p>It’s a tough one because I’m a Berkeley alum & loved it so much, but longed for the East Coast. I probably would have liked to have gone first to one of these, in this order:
Columbia
Yale
Penn
Brown</p>
<p>Based on locations & academics both.</p>
<p>And then I would have loved still to have gone to Berkeley for grad school.</p>