The "I-can-easily-get-into-Berkeley-but-not-Stanford" feeling?

Collegestress16
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:53:59 +0000

He’s not an adcom!!! ^ you are right undergrad isn’t important, even when people say they aren’t applying to top 10 schools for prestige you know they are. Yes these schools are good and are at the top in research, professors, resources …but I think if they weren’t so high up on the rankings list MUCH less people would apply.

Undergrad is really just a time to explore one’s interest, meet new people, expereience new ideas, become indedpendent, think for oneself, and have some great memories to look back on. You can get this at any college you go to and I ALWAYS shrugged this off before but “FIT does matter”. Its the best school that matches what you need in a school and sometimes it may not be stanford or HYPMC. Can you honestly get that much a better learning expereince at stan instead of berk? maybe a little. I hope everyone at least goes to a school where they are happy for the next four years. I know people who go to harvard and say that the competition and all nighters are murder!!!