Prestige WhOres

rebeccak
Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:54:51 +0000

I had a similar situation. I was so close to going to Rice because my parents wanted me to go and because it’s a prestigious school, but my heart was set on UT. I visited UT to do a campus visit and I talked to older students from my major (chemical engineering…I think it’s ranked 6th in the nation?) and that definitely helped a lot. Helped me and my parents see that UT was right for me. A lot of the older students I talked to were accepted into MIT, Harvard, etc. for graduate school, so I wouldn’t worry about the whole prestige thing.

Follow your heart! hahaha