is umass the place for me?

tennisfan_09
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:37:10 +0000

I am from the west coast…and about one person in each graduating class from my high school goes to umass. I visited the school in november and didn’t hate the school, but I had just come from a college that I loved that was smaller and more prestigious.

Four months later…

I didn’t get into my top two choices, and am left with lots of good options but none are really calling my name. I keep going back to Umass and reading about it. All the other schools I applied to are smaller, so the size of umass kind of freaks me out a little.
But at the same time, I love the idea of being around thousands of very different people. Especially because i am from the west coast, I like the idea of something new.

However, my worry is that the size of the school will kind of run me over. I am scared to arrive on campus be all alone, and be surrounded by people who all went to high school together and then there’s me…the girl from oregon who knows no one…

Are there many people from out of state, and will it be easy for me to just ease into the social scene?