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depends on what you want to study. humanities doesn't quite narrow it.

The next six or so months you're going to be having so much fun......you'll be glad when its over.

Columbia has a good JRN program.

Lol, I don't think anything worthwhile goes on at University of Phoenix.

lol

has anyone heard anything about Umass, University of mass Amherst? It looks pretty cool to me.

Go to a community college for two years until you've figured out where you want to go - you'll save a bunch of money, and have an easier time exploring options.

Some community colleges do have dorms if you don't want to go local.

Recommendation: submit all your applications before November.  I found out that they are not smurfing you when they say, "The earlier, the better."

the problem is that in some places (not cali) its not as easy to transfer between a 2 yr and a 4 yr school.  Cali makes it very very easy.  You cant expect that in another state so it can be a good thing to check on.

If you want a really weird liberal arts college, try Deep Springs. Hard to get in, though (not uncommon to get rejected there and accepted at an Ivy/major university). The application process, though, is *VERY* demanding; the first round is 3 essays plus misc. stuff, 2nd round (by invite) is 4 more essays (1500 word limit - I got wait listed there [didn't get in]).

Reed is a fairly out-there place - while there as a prospie, there was a Drag Ball, and a Klingon Death Metal band (totally dressed as Klingons, the head wrinkle thing and all - and sang in Klingon, too). Has kind of a student-run feel to it (the loft in the main hall is called the "Bong Loft").

Miles wrote:

Recommendation: submit all your applications before November.  I found out that they are not smurfing you when they say, "The earlier, the better."

Eh, I didn't find that to be true, at least with Stanford - they said they'd like it by the 1st of Dec., no later than the 15th. Well, I mailed it off on the 14th, and it seems to have worked. I'd second that advice anyway, though...

Really, though, do some research - I was totally in denial, and really only applied to places that were either suggested to me, or that I'd heard of before. It was kind of luck I got in some place I wanted to go.

Good luck - it can be a nasty process. Keep breathing.

Plaz McMan wrote:

If you want a really weird liberal arts college, try Deep Springs. Hard to get in, though (not uncommon to get rejected there and accepted at an Ivy/major university). The application process, though, is *VERY* demanding; the first round is 3 essays plus misc. stuff, 2nd round (by invite) is 4 more essays (1500 word limit - I got wait listed there [didn't get in]).

Reed is a fairly out-there place - while there as a prospie, there was a Drag Ball, and a Klingon Death Metal band (totally dressed as Klingons, the head wrinkle thing and all - and sang in Klingon, too). Has kind of a student-run feel to it (the loft in the main hall is called the "Bong Loft").

Miles wrote:

Recommendation: submit all your applications before November.  I found out that they are not smurfing you when they say, "The earlier, the better."

Eh, I didn't find that to be true, at least with Stanford - they said they'd like it by the 1st of Dec., no later than the 15th. Well, I mailed it off on the 14th, and it seems to have worked. I'd second that advice anyway, though...

Really, though, do some research - I was totally in denial, and really only applied to places that were either suggested to me, or that I'd heard of before. It was kind of luck I got in some place I wanted to go.

Good luck - it can be a nasty process. Keep breathing.

Isn't deep springs like the hardest institution to get into in the world, besides a tech school in India?

LKS_Rocky wrote:

lol

has anyone heard anything about Umass, University of mass Amherst? It looks pretty cool to me.

umass suckkks. no, really, it does. its a massive state university where you probably won't get a good education. of course if you were to go to boston university, you're education would be first class, and you would join the elite group of macaddict forum posters at bu.

Whatever the calibre JC/CC you go to, you won't, from what I've heard, have the same experience.