Have you ever dreamed of entering Harvard/Oxford/Cambridge, or are you in? Options

[bonluvdan]

as titled

These are my dreame/ideal universities! haha...
but the probability for me entering either on of them is extremely low = ="

[*mipadi*]

No, not really. I've never had an interest.

[voguelove]

^^me too.
i dont care about ivy league schools. as long as i get into my state university, im fine.

[illumineering]

While it is a worthy accomplishment for some, I'm not enamored by the thought.

[ecargnmyst]

i didnt really dream..but frshmn yr when asked what schools i was aiming for i put down princeton..yale..lol

but now im a senior..its not that easy getting into yale..so im just going to some other school..but alot of the ppl from my school got into the ivys..=\ makes me feel so ashamed

[BOOGERSHAHA]

yeah of course, but i didn't apply to any of those top ivies like harvard/yale/princeton. when i visited, i didn't really like the campus and i would have felt bad if the main reason i liked the school was the prestige that went with it.

[ecargnmyst]

^haha i think thats how my parents r ...they want me to go to harvard/yale b/c its world famous...and from what theyve heard..u get a good job once u graduate ..but thats how they screwed me over for H.S. -_- they made me go to this H.s. b/c it was famous and they didnt even care that i didnt like math/sci ><

[innovation]

I'm thinking about the London School of Economics, which is rather prestigious, too...

[silver-rain]

Actually, when I was younger, I really wanted to go to Oxford. I was entertaining thoughts of applying there too this year, but I figured my grades wouldn't admit me.

[anoniez]

If you want to go to Oxford, the best thing to do would be to apply there for graduate school because they take hardly any undergrads from the U.S., but a lot of grads from the U.S.
I don't know anything about Cambridge, though..

[Rachel]

I never actually wanted to go to an Ivy school. It's not that I was lazy, I just never wanted to go to one. Name and prestige don't appeal to me. The quality of life and education do, as well as the feeling I get from it.

[*swtcherriipie*]

No but i have dreamed of entering NYU.... I guess it was so PRETTY when i was 12 and to this day its still an aspitration.

Edit.// I got accepted YES! transferring 2007 w00pw00p GO ME!

[*mipadi*]

I never actually wanted to go to an Ivy school. It's not that I was lazy, I just never wanted to go to one. Name and prestige don't appeal to me. The quality of life and education do, as well as the feeling I get from it.

Amen to that.

[hi-C]

Ditto what Rachel said. There's nothing I could get from an Ivy that I'm getting right now from NYU (ha, although it wants to be an Ivy sooooooooo bad).

I did want to go to Oxford though, I thought that would be cool. But I looked up their application process a little to late to go through with it. I'll have to do with studying abroad in London next Spring.

[jennyjenny]

At one point, when I was little. But now it seems like a dream to me. You have to consider costs too, unless you get in on a scholarship, then that would be amazing. But right now I'm aiming at things a little less.

[jenniez618]

hmm, yes i did dream about getting into Harvard, but it was my parent's dream, but since my sister goes to Harvard, they kind of gave up on me, but I would like to go to Cornell or Columbia :).

[misoshiru]

Rachel's said what I wanted to say :D

I'd previously wanted to go to Tufts University, not for the name, but because the campus is gorgeous. But, I don't want to go there anymore, and I'm not going there.

Schools like Harvard is all about money and your intelligence. A lot of people who're the valedictorians may go to an Ivy, and realize that no, they're not really that smart anymore. And they have a hard time in college because they spend all their time trying to stay on top of things.

No but i have dreamed of entering NYU.... I guess it was so PRETTY when i was 12 and to this day its still an aspitration.

Edit.// I got accepted YES! transferring 2007 w00pw00p GO ME!

Wait..you got accepted, and then you're transferring out? Why?

[BOOGERSHAHA]

^ transferring into nyu. it doesn't make sense to transfer out...

[silver-rain]

^ transferring into nyu. it doesn't make sense to transfer out...

Eh, I'm thinking of transfering out of NYU if I get into the schools I'll apply for.

[sprezzatura]

Yes, but my goal is towards UCLA or UC Berkeley. The UC system costs less but these two universities are good.

[innovation]

Schools like Harvard is all about money and your intelligence. A lot of people who're the valedictorians may go to an Ivy, and realize that no, they're not really that smart anymore. And they have a hard time in college because they spend all their time trying to stay on top of things.

A. Prestigious institutions are not simply about "the money". Universities such as Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania have taken initiatives to increase aid for low-income families. For example, families that make less than $40,000 per year are not required to pay any tuition at Harvard University. Financial aid distribution within the Ivy League is completely need-based; even so, two-thirds of Harvard undergrad students qualify for some form of aid, the average grant being $24,000 per year.

B. According to Boston Magazine, Harvard is more likely to "select students who typically have shown some all-consuming passion, and will dedicate themselves to it even at the cost of their academics." During the admissions process, Harvard scrutinizes a candidate's character, for its admissions officers weight each of the applicants' teacher/counselor recommendations individually.

C. Of course, schools like Harvard value your intelligence. But a GPA or SAT score in no way predicts a candidate's future success at the institution and beyond. Selective schools want students who demonstrate significant potential for leadership and excellence so that they can contribute to both academic and social life at the university.

D. Students work to find their "niche" at Ivies. Yes, the schools are competitive, but because interests and passions are so diverse, students grow through their interactions with classmates. Students go to Ivies to be challenged, and this is exactly what they get at the Ivies. Of course they're going to struggle at times to maintain balance in their lives. It's a skill that they need to develop for life.

Just because you don't feel that such an institution would appeal to you is no reason to stereotype like this. And I wouldn't say that applying to Tufts for its beautiful campus is any better than applying to it for its prestige.

[jenniez618]

A. Prestigious institutions are not simply about "the money". Universities such as Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania have taken initiatives to increase aid for low-income families. For example, families that make less than $40,000 per year are not required to pay any tuition at Harvard University. Financial aid distribution within the Ivy League is completely need-based; even so, two-thirds of Harvard undergrad students qualify for some form of aid, the average grant being $24,000 per year.

B. According to Boston Magazine, Harvard is more likely to "select students who typically have shown some all-consuming passion, and will dedicate themselves to it even at the cost of their academics." During the admissions process, Harvard scrutinizes a candidate's character, for its admissions officers weight each of the applicants' teacher/counselor recommendations individually.

C. Of course, schools like Harvard value your intelligence. But a GPA or SAT score in no way predicts a candidate's future success at the institution and beyond. Selective schools want students who demonstrate significant potential for leadership and excellence so that they can contribute to both academic and social life at the university.

D. Students work to find their "niche" at Ivies. Yes, the schools are competitive, but because interests and passions are so diverse, students grow through their interactions with classmates. Students go to Ivies to be challenged, and this is exactly what they get at the Ivies. Of course they're going to struggle at times to maintain balance in their lives. It's a skill that they need to develop for life.

Just because you don't feel that such an institution would appeal to you is no reason to stereotype like this. And I wouldn't say that applying to Tufts for its beautiful campus is any better than applying to it for its prestige.

True, the tutition at Harvard is like around 56,000 dollars a year, but since my family's income is low, my parents only have to pay like 3,000-5,000 a year.

[innovation]

^ And that's why need-based financial aid is good. It helps.

[AngelinaTaylor]

Does Julliard count? I'm going there for my third year..

Taylor``

[BOOGERSHAHA]

Eh, I'm thinking of transfering out of NYU if I get into the schools I'll apply for.

whoops sorry, i meant in the context of her post. she was really excited about nyu and it wouldn't have made sense for her to want to transfer out.