Terrible Mistake 6/25/2001
I think I've made an awful mistake in choosing my college. I researched so hard!!! I thought Syracuse was a decent school. It has a 92% freshmen retention rate, so I figured the students must think its ok because 92% of them came back. I honestly want to be sick right now. College is supposed to be the best time of your life--you're away from home, but you're not totally independent yet. The students seem to hate SU! I really just want to cry...
I've worked so incredibly hard for the past four years of high school, trying to ensure that I'd get into a good school. I should have been more specific in my wishes...I want a good school that whose students enjoy going there. I didn't realize how crummy Syracuse was. I'm beginning to think I should have applied to SUNY-Albany. They have a great pre-med program, cheap tuition (so at least if I hated it, I wouldn't be in debt) and I would have money to study abroad in Europe or do something else. Maybe I should have gone to University of Massachusetts-Amherst. From what I heard though, the dorms were falling apart, the classes were huge, and there were way too many TA's, many of which didn't speak English.
I wish more than anything that I had gotten into University of Rochester. I went to see what the UR students thought of their school; their biggest complaint was the weather. One person complained that the school didn't give enough homework, which "demotivated" her. Awww, porr baby. If that's her biggest problem with the school, I'm extremely jealous of her. I was told by many UR students, including Dan, to not transfer into UR. It's a pretty small school, and cliches are made really fast. It's really hard to try and integrate yourself into UR if you come after freshman year.
On a college website, www.review.com, a girl posted that she had gotten a 1200 on the SAT and gotten into UR. I got an 1170. What if I had scored 30 points higher? Would I have been accepted instead of waitlisted? My biggest problem is that I'm constantly thinking "What if?"
I'm so terrified that I'm going to go to a school that is the larger replica of my high school. I honestly don't think I could take another four years of that...Sure I could transfer out of Syracuse, but that means finding ANOTHER school and going through that dreadful admissions process again. Also, my mother sacrificed so much so I could go to SU. She's taking on all kinds of loans, and really stretching everything else thin so I could attend. Now I'm scared that it will all be for nothing.
Of course, I'm going to look like an obsessive, over-anxious twit if I end up loving Syracuse...Hell, I look like an obsessive, over-anxious twit now :o). My sister went to Disney World last summer for a summer job. Two of her roommates were from SU and they loved it. Arrgghhh, I would give my left arm for a crystal ball, so I could see what would happen.
Phobia of the Day: Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left, left-handed
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