For everyone who is starting to get into college now, where are you headed? I got accepted to Christopher Newport yesterday, but it's a safety school. I got deferred from my #1 for early @ Mary Washington... Grr.

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2000

Answers

CNU... oh boy.

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2000

The Farm! I just got my acceptance letter (early admissions, I'm antsy).

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2000

I'm Canadian but I'm getting a full scholarship to a Catholic College in New Jersey called Felician College. http://www.felician.edu

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2000

I'm going to University of Maine @ Orono, I got my acceptance letter a week ago. And despite any rumours anyone may have heard, it's not a bad school. ;)

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2000

I go to Central Michigan University...I love it there:-)

-- Anonymous, December 20, 2000

Well, I've been really slacking on college applications. So far, I've been accepted to University of Kansas, but I still plan on applying to University of Wisconsin @ Madison, University of Michigan @ Ann Arbor, University of Texas @ Austin, and UCLA.

-- Anonymous, December 20, 2000

Yay, I was accepted (with early decision) to Occidental College in California. I'm also applying to University of Oregon, Western Washington University, Berkley and Claremont McKenna College.

-- Anonymous, December 21, 2000

Berkeley. Ahem.

-- Anonymous, December 21, 2000

I go to a university of wisconsin school and i love it.

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine. I love it there.

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

I go to CNU, Stephanie, and all I can say is...

stay away! stay far far away and enjoy life, do not come into this scum sucking, back-stabbing hell whole that will fuck you three ways from sunday and than throw you out in to the shit. Ih yeah, its a "students first" university. heh.

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

I'm from Georgia and I'm going to Gordon. That's in a place called Barnesville. Since we got that lottery thing in like, 95 or something, all "b" students get the HOPE scholarship, which pays for tuition and gives you $300.00 each school year (or something) for books and junk. I'm out.

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

I go to the University of Minnesota, which is a kickass school, and next semester, I'm doing an exchange program with American University in D.C. I'm pumped.

-- Anonymous, December 23, 2000

I live in Missouri, and my sister and brother-in-law go to Truman State in a shithole town (I DO mean town), although it's a very good school. I'm a sophomore, but I've gotten some some letters from colleges - at the moment, I'm very interested in Rochester U (Rochester, NY), New York U (NYC), St. Louis U (St. Louis), Washington U (St. Louis), and some insanely academic (no greek system) university in Arkansas. If y'all know anything pro or con about this, mail me - my folks are pushing me to pick a college pretty soon (yes, I AM a sophomore).

-- Anonymous, December 23, 2000

Denise... I'm in Arkansas... which college are you talking about? Hendrix? Ouchita? ... come now ...

-- Anonymous, December 24, 2000

Denise, tell your folks to lay off. It gets stressful enough later on during the actual application process without your parents bugging you about it way too early. :)

-- Anonymous, December 24, 2000

Hey guys, we don't all know what your little letters mean. Sorry for being retarded.

I go to the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I dig it there, mostly 'cos of the city aspects.

Word of advice when picking colleges - if you can help it, don't let your parents influence you beyond what they can help you pay for. They're not the ones who have to live there - you are. I'm just sayin'.

-- Anonymous, December 25, 2000

I go to NYU; it's swell.

-dan

-- Anonymous, December 27, 2000

Emily: That's a rather unusual view of Pittsburgh. More than a few of my friends don't consider it much of a city (at least, as compared to NYC, LA, SF, or Boston), and in fact see it as a podunk town with delusions of grandeur. I tend to like Pittsburgh; with the exception of a lack of decent nightlife, it's a pretty safe and relatively inexpensive city, and there's a decent developing tech sector.

I went to Carnegie Mellon (down the street from Pitt) for a couple of years, before I realized I didn't want to be a computer science geek but an economist. I'm still in the 'Burgh, working down the street from CMU as a code geek until I can get the money to return to school. Great place, even if it's massively expensive and a wild and difficult ride for most. Probably my only advice for prospective college students is: if you're going to change your major, do it before you get put on academic probation or suspension. It'll save months or years of frustration later, most likely.

-- Anonymous, December 27, 2000