Is it normal to have application remorse?

banjanadian
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:36:25 +0000

Don’t worry, I think it’s normal, I think I’m kinda going through the same thing… it’s not like work at Brown/Duke won’t be challenging, and those are both schools you like, so who’s to say that Harvard/Columbia would be better? Maybe their names are a bit more prominent, but that doesn’t mean they’re better schools, or a better fit for you. In my case, I had the SAT scores for one of the IV schools but I elected to go to Notre Dame instead, which is still a good school. I think it’s just a letdown after all the emotional anxiety you feel before, the once you realize you got in, you want something to be anxious about again…but just relax, like LasMa said, you had good reasons for the decisions you made, and they’re both great schools!