<p>Haha if you were going to choose a college based solely on what your parents think is best for you, then you wouldn’t be here showing initiative by asking CC for help. Who are your parents to say where you will feel the most comfortable? Now if they don’t want you to go to NU for some other reason (maybe they don’t like it) then I say don’t apply, after all they will be paying for your tuition. But a) what is the harm in applying, you are not obligated to matriculate and b) only you can decide where you want to spend the next 4 years of your life. I would argue you can only “start hashing this stuff out” when acceptances come around anyways because you don’t know where you will get in. Don’t pick your chicken until you know which ones have hatched, and besides, you might grow to like one more after meeting it. Which is why I always emphasize visiting.</p>