<p>Okay, what school are your parents “pressuring” you into applying to, if any? My mom desperately and endlessly suggests taking a look at UVA and my dad endlessly suggest MIT. How about you guys?</p>
<p>I guess I’m really lucky in that my parents don’t bug me about any particular school. They were horrible to my older sisters about looking at Cornell (their alma mater) but the second on went there so I’m not getting too much (if she didn’t, it would probably be CU or nothing). There were a couple schools that my mom has suggested multiple times, but it’s not too bad. I visited Colgate more out of appeasement, and it turns out to be my top choice haha.</p>
<p>By the way, I LOVE UVA. That was the school I wanted to go to my whole life until I realized I wanted a smaller school, but the Hoos are still my favorite sports team (and always will be)</p>
<p>Well, my parents hardly know anything about colleges (I’m a first gen), so no pressure here. Which is nice, so I can choose what I want, and they don’t mind how far I go really. The big factor will be financial aid.</p>
<p>My mom’s somewhat pressuring me to go to Emory, and NOT to go to UC Berkeley or UCLA. She thinks I won’t be able to handle them :(</p>
<p>my mom doesnt pressure me to do anything. everything in my life i do because i pressure myself to do them. it can be a burden, but its often times rewarding.</p>
<p>I’m not applying until next year and my mom already keeps harping on about applying ED to Yale. I don’t even know what schools I want to go to yet or if Yale is a fit for me! It’s all about the prestige for her…ugh.</p>
<p>^ i know what you mean. my parents care a lot about the prestige. and that seems to be it…</p>
<p>my parents havent really pressured me (although i am looking at HYP caliber schools)…</p>
<p>my grandparents keep pushing for dartmouth since they live nearby though haha</p>
<p>My mom really likes MIT for some odd reason, lol. She’s making me apply, even though I have absolutely NO math or science-related EC’s. Add that to the fact that math is far from being my strong suit, and… well, if I do get accepted by some pure miracle, I’ll most likely be put in the class equivalent to Calc BC while the rest of my classmates will have completed Multivariable/Linear Algebra prior to graduation from HS. To me, this choice just doesn’t make sense, especially since I want to major in a foreign language (preferably French or German)… but who knows? </p>
<p>Yes Mom, I will… sigh lol</p>
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<p>I really don’t see a reason to apply to MIT considering your preferable major. Your mom probably just sees that it’s supposed to be such a wonderful school, but that is for engineering and the sciences. There are so many other schools that would be far better for languages than MIT. Seriously, that is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Oh, and for all of you 2011 (which are probably most of you on this thread), 2010 is where it’s at… We make perfection. Just thought you should know…</p>
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<p>^ My point exactly! I think I’d be even better off applying to Harvard… at least Harvard’s known for the strength of its arts programs, and I’m guessing that it also has very good foreign language programs. I’ve heard people recommending Middlebury if I want to major in a foreign language, but I don’t really like the location so much (I’d prefer attending college in a more ‘urban’ setting), so I’m not sure. Plus, I don’t know how good the financial aid is at Middlebury, because I know I’ll probably need quite a bit of it.</p>
<p>My parents haven’t really pressured me at all. If anything, they’ve just been overly optimistic. I keep trying to explain that I can’t get my hopes up for any of my reach schools. :/</p>
<p>My parents aren’t really pressuring me since neither of them know much about college( I’m a first gen). HOWEVER my aunt is pressuring me to go Columbia or Princeton, two colleges def. out of reach. I have to keep on telling her that I don’t have such grades to get into such schools, but hey that’s why they’re called “reach schools”</p>
<p>I have total freedom (largely) in my choices. Forunately.</p>
<p>What colleges are some of you considering at the moment?</p>
<p>My safety school is UBC since I’m a Canadian citizen. I also really like Princeton (visited it once) and Stanford, and I might also apply to Harvard. I’m not sure how difficult it is for me to get into UCLA OOS, but I visited Los Angeles too once and fell in love with the place. </p>
<p>One huge concern for me is money, since I don’t exactly come from an affluent background. My parents are willing to pay up to $10,000 USD a year, but that’s it. A major reason that Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and UBC have all remained on my list is due to either great financial aid programs or low tuition costs, and I don’t think either of those apply to UCLA OOS. People are telling me to apply to Michigan since I’m already living here in Ann Arbor, but while this place is great, I don’t know if I really want to spend the next 5 and a half years here, lol.</p>
<p>umm, undergrad is only 4 years
I live close to Umich too! its actually great, the only downside really is how big it is.</p>
<p>I wonder how many people on CC are from michigan…</p>
<p><em>Pokes head into forums</em></p>
<p>Hello fellow juniors.</p>
<p><em>Runs away sheepishly</em></p>
<p>xP</p>
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<p>Well, I live in Ann Arbor, and since I know I’ll be spending the last 1.5 years of high school here, add that to potentially 4 more years here if I end up attending Michigan, and you’ll have 5 and a half. :P</p>
<p>I shouldn’t have said pressured, but rather “heavily suggested”. They think I can get into schools that are way out of my range…kind of frusterating. Seriously mom, OOS, a 2050 SAT and 3.5 isn’t going to get me into either UVA or MIT!</p>