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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Wednesday QOTD
When selecting a college/university, what helped you make your decision (location, price, major, etc) and how many/which schools did you visit and decide against?
Love 9.3.03
Marriage 12.1.07
Baby Carriage 8.3.11
Re: Wednesday QOTD
After visiting several large schools with my sister (Ohio State, Ohio Univ., Univ of Tennessee and Indiana Univ), I knew I wanted to go to a smaller school. Since my dad's a Lutheran Pastor, my parents suggested looking into those schools since they got a small tuition reduction and tried to keep me from having much loan debt.
I looked at Capital Univ. and Wittenberg in Ohio, but knew I wanted to go further away. They originally had a 4 hour limit, but I got them to agree to Lenoir-Rhyne Univ. in NC, about 7 hours away, because I fell in love with NC and felt really at home there.
At first I only applied to UCF and FSU because my parents wanted me to go to school outside of Jacksonville (I am pretty sure they wanted me to get away from the guy I was dating). I got into both schools and decided to go to FSU. My mom and I visited and were going to get me registered for a dorm and I freaked out and said I didn't want to leave Jax. My mom said, "But you didn't even apply to UNF" and I said "That's because you wouldn't let me". I applied and got in and that's where I wound up going.
On another note, there is someone named "doctabroccoli" on the online Nesties
How is it that my BABY is going to be 3?
BFP-2/25/11; 8 Wk U/S-3/25/11-No HB, measured 6.5 wks; D&C
For undergrad I knew I was going to go to one of the state schools in FL since I had a bright futures scholarship and would essentially go for free. I ended up deciding on UNF because I had just moved to Jax a year prior to HS graduation and didn't want to move again. I won't deny that DH may have also been a factor.
For grad school, I applied to schools in the south (in states I would consider living in) that had reputable I-O programs. Then once I was accepted I compared the offers from each school and picked the one that combined the best offer with quality, location, and cost of living. That's how I ended up in Clemson.
One of the dorms has a lazy river. It practically IS Sea World.
I wanted to major in nursing so I applied to 3 or 4 schools in MD that had nursing programs. I then decided to start at Community College after I graduated because I was scared to go away to school.
My boyfriend moved to Jacksonville about the time I needed to transfer so I applied to UNF and JU. My dad said JU was too expensive so I ended up at UNF.
My community college I chose because I was afraid of driving in the "city" (Panama City) so I went the the other one in the area. In the Navy I got my AS from the college that offered the most online classes. Then I chose UNF because I lived like a mile from it. There ya go.
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We kind of did this with DH's grad school. The program is only offered in 12 schools nationwide, so whoever accepts you is where you'll go. He ended up signing a contract with a school and then got 2 other offers. I don't know how much the price difference would have been though. But now we're looking at 30 years of loan payments for a balance about 1/2 our mortgage, ugh.
I'm sorry. That sucks. Bad.
01.03.09 {MARRIED BIO}
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I applied to 6 or 7 schools scattered all over the place. I was hardcore into my emo days at this point and already had hippy roots, so I knew it would be a private liberal arts school. My #1 was Reed in Oregon... because it was in Oregon and straight-up fulla hippies. Never visited, though. It's possible I didn't get in, not sure... I don't remember how many I got accepted to, but there were really only 2 in the running -- Goucher in MD and Dickinson in PA. Goucher is a great school with awesome bio programs, and Dickinson is too. Dickinson gave me more of the college "vibe" I was so desperate to have (read: hipster). I bawled my little emo eyes out bec we couldn't afford Dson. We accepted the offer to Goucher and I simultaneously wrote a woe-is-me/begging email to Dson which miraculously resulted in them throwing a bucket of money at me. So there I went.
I think I had opportunities there that I wouldn't have otherwise. But I still wish I'd gone to Rutgers in NJ (the state school). I probably never would've met DH or any of you lovely ladies... but I wouldn't have any loans either. lol
Oh, man... I don't even remember which ones I applied to. Definitely FSU and UNF, with Yale thrown in for the hell of it (I'd gotten the Yale Alumni Book Award in my Junior year so why not). Seems like there was one other one tossed in there.
I didn't want to attend JU because my parents had gone there and it was a mile from their house so I resisted with all my might. It wasn't nearly as nice then as it is now. My brother did amazingly well there but he's so technical that the small classes really helped bring out his personality. I wanted a school larger than the private schools I'd been brought up in, but not as large as UF.
I really wanted to attend FSU and get away, but ultimately UNF offered me a full ride and wrote a check for what I didn't use, so that was where I was going. I don't regret the choice. Since it was largely a commuter school at the time, I got a good education and a lot of work experience instead of a college lifestyle experience. While that doesn't appeal to a lot of people, it suited me. I did live at home to avoid spending all the money, since there wasn't quite enough for dorms and food, but I was rarely there from being so busy.
I did not, however, finish my masters in English there that I started because it is a little too small to allow for a real focus in any one topic. You have (or had) to take a variety of courses even if you already knew your area of interest, and I didn't want that.