Schools you wish you had applied to

[Gleevec]

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In retrospect, are there any schools SDNers felt they should have applied to based on what friends/other SDNers have said?

 

[opus03]

hmm, interesting question....I just wish I had applied as a California resident(instead of sticking with IL) so that maybe I would have had at least a very slight chance at going to UCD and staying here where my husbands "really good" job is......oh well, hindsight is 20/20!

 

[DW]

michigan. top 10 school, and they accepted people hyper early. also, although I'm outta state I wish I applied to baylor (great school, very inexpensive)

 

[lola]

university of colorado
a couple of the texas schools (too lazy to fill out additional apps)

 

[gogiants]

i definately wimped out on applying to some of the more competitive schools (i.e. ucla, hopkins, yale, columbia, vanderbilt). though those are always a longshot i kind of wish i would have at least tried. its not like a few more rejection letters would have killed me.

 

[fava]

i wish i applied to michigan too. a long shot of course, but those scholarships sound super-nice. oh well.

 

[HoMuffin]

Originally posted by gogiants
i definately wimped out on applying to some of the more competitive schools (i.e. ucla, hopkins, yale, columbia, vanderbilt). though those are always a longshot i kind of wish i would have at least tried. its not like a few more rejection letters would have killed me.

Ditto.

 

[Desdemona]

Colorado and Cornell and maybe Wash U.

 

[Street Philosopher]

on the other hand, i wish i didn't apply to all the schools that rejected me. hahaha

 

[owen_osh]

Michigan

 

[DrKicker]

Cornell and Wash U

 

[atsai3]

Schools I would have applied to (had I known then what I know now): Rochester & Pittsburgh. I've heard great things about both schools.

Maybe Michigan & Penn.

-AT.

 

[nero]

emory, pitt, darthmouth, vandy...........i didn't apply to enough 20-30 ranked schools, and did too many that wern't ranked....its killing me.

nero

 

[siempre595]

Yale

 

[bujji13]

Yale - got lazy with secondaries, procrastinated that dumb 500 word "why yale is god" essay, then forgot to send the damn thing in. Should have applied, great school, good balance of lecture and small group, anonymous grades.

Duke - refused to do their amazingly ridiculous secondary, but friends who visited said they loved it, and their program is real flexible. In retrospect, writing those 7 essays may have been worth it. Probably not though.

Hopkins - didn't because I went to the undergrad, and I hate Baltimore. But it's still a great school, and would have been the most convenient interview ever.

 

[manicmaven]

Vermont. My advisor talked me out of it.

 

[Deuce 007 MD]

Those public schools that take some out of state people, e.g. SUNY and UIC.

 

[wannabedoc81]

Cornell

 

[batman123]

Case Western, USC (Good schools that I think I would've had a shot at, but then again, this is a random process)

 

[the_equalizer]

Originally posted by Street Philosopher
on the other hand, i wish i didn't apply to all the schools that rejected me. hahaha

Aww, poor smart ass didn't get accepted anywhere nice? Boo hoo.

 

[Curci]

I wish I would have applied to UPenn. My pre-med advisor talked me out of it, but *drool* UPenn.

 

[Naphtali]

Georgetown (MD/PhD). At the time, I figured DC was too high crime. (And then I applied to Temple. What *was* I thinking?)

Oh yeah, and Virginia. And maybe University of Chicago. Still, can't apply everywhere, right?

-Naphtali

 

[Naphtali]

One more thing: I wish I had applied to Tulane, because then every day could have been Mardi Gras. 😀 New Orleans is craaaazy.

-Naphtali

 

[tBw]

there aren't any I wish I had applied to but didn't - I do wish I had waited a year to apply - and there are definitely a few schools I wish I hadn't applied to (some that I visited, and some that I only did the primary and not the secondary for - so *really* shouldn't have applied to in the first place!)

 

[tryingagain]

Wish I had applied to Cincinnati. Still not sure why I didn't.

 

[indianboy]

Aww, poor smart ass didn't get accepted anywhere nice? Boo hoo.

Hey there friend! Do us all a favor and Go play in traffic!

Hope that Helps.

P 'Fighting for the Common Man' ShankOut

 

[thealbino]

Georgetown and UCSF. There were a ton of threads on how great the schools are and their campus environment. I was trying to save money on applications. Stupid.

Originally posted by Gleevec
In retrospect, are there any schools SDNers felt they should have applied to based on what friends/other SDNers have said?

 

[SolidGold]

I wish I at least applied to some more top-teir schools like Vandy and Yale. I probably would be rejected pretty fast from those schools but at least I would have tried because I applied to all the mid/lower tier schools an applicant could apply too. I got interviews at some schools I thought I still had no chance at with the schools I did apply to, so I will never know if I could have been a med student at Vandy or Yale.

 

[medilicious]

Baylor, Michigan, WashU, U of Chicago

 

[Nirvana]

I hear ya!

Forget about schools like yale, georgetown, or cornell. I should've applied to more party schools. I have friends that went to tulane's undergrad and they were rockin' all the time. It was so much fun to visit!

Tulane gets my vote for the most infamous party school in the country.

Where's that harvard-of-schools thread? Tulane is def the harvard of partiers!

Originally posted by Naphtali
One more thing: I wish I had applied to Tulane, because then every day could have been Mardi Gras. 😀 New Orleans is craaaazy.

-Naphtali

 

[wolferman]

NYU. I have a couple friends there and it would be neat to go to school with them.

 

[BrainDrain]

Originally posted by Nirvana
I hear ya!

Forget about schools like yale, georgetown, or cornell. I should've applied to more party schools. I have friends that went to tulane's undergrad and they were rockin' all the time. It was so much fun to visit!

Tulane gets my vote for the most infamous party school in the country.

Where's that harvard-of-schools thread? Tulane is def the harvard of partiers!

Tulane was ranked #17 Party School by Playboy 😀

http://hullabaloo.tulane.org/index.php/20021101/news/1216/

 

[Nirvana]

Hey BrainDrain,

I knew that Tulane had to be up there in those rankings. That place is a nonstop party! Although, they really belong at #1, not #17. 😀

Originally posted by BrainDrain
Tulane was ranked #17 Party School by Playboy 😀

http://hullabaloo.tulane.org/index.php/20021101/news/1216/

 

[johnstoner]

hehe...

go tulane

 

[Gleevec]

Any others?

 

[deleted4401]

B/c the 2nd year exams are all on Fridays ... and you get the whole next week to party. Plus, you get the day before the tests as an off day to study, and the day before that as a review day!!

B/c the first year/first semester exams are a week of M, W, F .. and then you get the whole next two weeks to party ... b/c you don't have another test for the next five weeks.

B/c you get friday, sat, sun, mon, tue, wed off during Mardi Gras, AND THAT IS HUUUUUUGE!

B/c exams are scheduled so Jazz Fest is not in the way of anything scheduled ...

B/c during first year/second semester they schedule it so beautifully ... look at the website and figure it out for yourself (i.e -remember there is a noteset service and a handout service) .. treat yourself to an awesome spring and summer.

B/c the last part of the second year is studying for shelf exams - so you get massive amounts of board studying done before school is out. And that is big tyme ...

Simul