<p>Not sure. Maybe Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Although a few years on the Santa Barbara beaches has some appeal, as well.</p>
<p>Earlham College. Perhaps religious studies, with course work in third world development. (I definitely wouldn’t do Williams again, though I did get a great education.)</p>
<p>No budget and guaranteed admission?! Woohoo! </p>
<p>RISD
Photography
Skiing</p>
<p>I’m going to assume that “where would you go” and “what would you study” are independent of one another - so I could have my dream major without having to confirm that my dream school offers it in the form I want.</p>
<p>Smith, maybe. I loved Yale, but I didn’t consider women’s colleges when I was looking, for reasons I no longer agree with.</p>
<p>History, specifically focusing on women’s health issues. My hands down favorite class in college was called something like “The History of Women, Health, and Sexuality in the US,” which was technically a women’s studies class, but had a lot in common with the history of medicine classes I’d taken earlier. I had enough courses that at most schools, I’d have had a history minor, but I came to enjoy history late enough in my college career that I’d have had a very hard time finishing a major in the remaining semesters.</p>
<p>I didn’t go off to college & I think I would have been thrilled to go anywhere and study for four years. Especially if I didn’t have to worry about paying for rent and I didn’t have to shop/cook!</p>
<p>I like both of my kids undergrad schools, & I could take environmental science at either of them, although I also like the environmental focus at Evergreen and Warren Wilson.</p>
<p>Extra curriculars would be something to do with their organic gardens, and the outdoors- hiking, photography,xcountry skiing.</p>
<p>But Id also probably have enjoyed sound engineering, although I dont know enough about it to pick a school.</p>
<p>Wow. Since my college choice was dictated by finances, what a luxury to be able to choose without finance or admissions criteria.</p>
<p>I think I’d try to choose between Cornell University or Connecticut College. At Cornell, I’d be an Animal Science major, at Connecticut – bio? zoology? English? classics?</p>
<p>My dream school at 18 would not be my dream school now. When I was 18, I probably would have picked an urban school, maybe somewhere else in the country, and been a liberal arts major.</p>
<p>Instead, I went to a state school, changed majors a few times between different sciences, and dropped out.</p>
<p>My S goes to school in western MA, I think it is a beautiful area, but I wouldn’t pick his school. Maybe somewhere like Cornell, I’d major in computer engineering or something along those lines. I’ve always liked computers, but when I was in school, everything was still done with punch cards.</p>
<p>I’d go to Smith, too. (My d’s experience was absolutely extraordinary.) But I have a little problem - can be fixed, but…</p>
<p>LOL, mini.</p>
<p>I’d go to Swarthmore, major in biology, and sing in a choir.</p>
<p>Oh gosh…I don’t know what to pick, STILL… I was a national merit finalist and nobody at my school (or my parents) ever mentioned that perhaps I was capable of admission many places. So I went to a small LAC. Which was nice, but wow were we sheltered (and I came from a tiny rural town, so sheltered seemed safe to me then)</p>
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<li>Stanford? Brown? Cornell? Someplace fairly large, not too urban, that would send me abroad. Or the CIA in Hyde Park; I always loved cooking but NEVER knew it was something people did for a job.</li>
<li> Landscape architecture or something food.</li>
<li>I’d stay with music. I would skip the editor-of-the-paper this time.</li>
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<p>I think I would go to NYU. I’d do the “Italian and Linguistics” major. It would be fun to live a student’s life in NYC for four years. I wouldn’t do many college-based ECs. :)</p>
<p>Like wis75, I would love to attend my state’s flagship school again. There are SO many opportunities for engineering research at UT-Austin. I loved everything about my experience. And my favorite class was US History - over 300 students. Large does not necessarily mean bad. That was the only huge class I had there, too!</p>
<p>Earlier I posted that Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service might have been a good option for me. Middlebury College should be added to the list, although I prefer universities. I just really liked the students & parents when I last visited.</p>
<p>Youth is wasted on the young.</p>
<p>Someplace, some part of the country brand new for me. Iowa or Maine: Grinnell or Bowdoin; Tennessee or Idaho, maybe state schools.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’d change anything. Started at Antioch, then U of MN, Cornell Nursing School, Antioch for MA and ASU for Phd. i loved being a nurse and psychologist, then a Mom. Looking at schools with my son, I loved every school he applied to.</p>
<p>Three distinct phases:</p>
<p>Phase 1: I wanted to attend a small to medium sized LAC where I could double major in my two true passions (psychology and photography). Unfortunately, Major Turbo would not pay for either of these and Elbonian universities did not offer either one (they offered psychiatry… I think not). </p>
<p>Phase 2: Aerospace Engineering for which the good Major would pay for and in fact almost did (Almost ended up in Carleton). I saw the light and did not go there.</p>
<p>Phase 3: Biomedical Engineering (inspired after my first job in a hospital). Almost ended up at the University of South Florida with the Major’s blessings. </p>
<p>But then I found my true passion and the rest is history :). My field of work combines cognitive psychology, computer science, engineering, and the creative arts to design user interfaces for consumer electronics products.</p>
<p>I would still go to RISD. Would have taken courses with Dale Chuhily and Sewell Sillman(prot</p>
<p>^^^wow. I am jealous of your real life 
RISD? Chuhily? I take back my previous post and request a life with artistic talent, channeled and trained</p>
<p>I dunno, might just do exactly what I did–one year at local flagship followed by transfer to OOS U of OR in Sociology & then law school at UC Davis. It worked well for me and I was very happy. Not sure how things would be today at those campuses, since they look MUCH larger than they were when I attended. I do love USoCal, where both my kdis matriculated, but not sure I’d find my niche there (tho both kids did).</p>
<p>I enjoyed the ECs I did–reactivated the college honor socieities, campus YWCA, national YWCA, working on campus, going on a lot of field trips with friend majoring in ecology. Life was great! No interest in going back to college full time at this point in my life, but enjoyed it while I was doing it!</p>