Is it normal to have application remorse?

juillet
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:49:18 +0000

I’m in graduate school - in the middle of my second year - and I still sometimes wish I had applied to more selective schools. I was definitely in that range as an applicant, and the schools might have been more affordable than I was assuming at the time. I’m easily able to drop the dwelling, though, because I now attend an Ivy League graduate school, so I’m content Now I’m just focused on teaching at one of those places I could’ve gone to in undergrad.

It’s totally normal, I think, but the important thing to do is drop it. Force yourself not to dwell and to realize that you’ll be happy with your choice when you go.

Although I disagree with hmom5, even though she’s worked in Ivy admissions before. The stats don’t necessarily agree with her Even if your scores were still a 2010, that lies just below the middle 50% of admitted first-year students at Duke (2040) and lies well within the middle 50% of first-year students at Brown (1980).