Why did you choose your school???

[TxSt02]

The recruiting question got me thinking...

Why did you choose to go to your school? Played sports, academics, location, non-sports scholarship, had your major, etc... Oh and if your screen name and/or your avatar doesnt indicate where you are from please provide...



I picked Texas State because of location (Love the Texas hill country) and academics have been on the rise. Also always seemed like a fun school.

[JMU Duke Dog]

I came to James Madison University as it offers a major in Biotechnology. JMU is one of only about seventeen schools in the entire country that offer undergraduates a chance to earn a Bachelors of Science in Biotechnology. It was also in-state tuition as I resided in Virginia.

[AppGuy04]

1. Chose NC State because I have lived in Raleigh pretty much my whole life. I was a Wolfpack fan when I was born, and my uncle graduated from there in 1980.

2. I chose App for grad school because it was the cheapest for my masters degree, but as I soon found out, one of the best values in the country.


3.In state tuition

[goasu984Life]

I chose Appalachian State after visiting the campus and visiting with the communications people. ASU has the second-best communications department in the University of North Carolina system (with the No. 1 being the University of North Carolina), and it was cheaper there than in Chapel Hill. Also, I just felt at home on my first visit to Boone.

Oh, and also the xprost2x

[grizband]

I chose the University of Montana:
1. It was close to home, but still far enough away that I was away from home (about 350 miles)

2. In-state tuition

3. It had the academics that I wanted.

[bandl]

J M U
1. In-state tuition
2. Great business school
3. Great music school (and marching band)
4. The girls are *****ing hot, a great mix of Southern/Northern
5. Close-proximity to mountains and outdoorsy stuff (mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing, skiing, caving, etc.)
6. Beautiful campus, especially on spring days when all the girls are wearing spring skirts... :nod:

[WUTNDITWAA]

I chose Appalachian State after visiting the campus and visiting with the communications people. ASU has the second-best communications department in the University of North Carolina system (with the No. 1 being the University of North Carolina), and it was cheaper there than in Chapel Hill. Also, I just felt at home on my first visit to Boone.

Oh, and also the xprost2x

Wrong. There is nothing "second-best" about ASU's Communications department when compared to that of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You graduated from the best. Remember that. Aside from that, everything else you stated is true. Carry on. xprost2x

[LetsGoNova]

1. They gave me a full scholarship.
2. Great engineering school set in a first-rate liberal arts university
3. Beautiful campus in a very nice area
4. Men's basketball team
5. Quality, um, talent
6. Catholic affiliation
7. Not too large, not too small
8. Did I mention the full-ride?

Villanova was not my first choice, but became my selection after my early love accepted me but gave me 0 dollars in aid. I am very happy with my choice.

[AppGuy04]

5. Quality, um, talent

tres importante

[HENJOHN]

1) UD was 3 miles from my home
2) Great football program back in the 70's
3) Good business school
4) Good Frat and Frat parties
5) Good.......

[Pard94]

I was "offered" "full rides" at Fordham, HC, Lafayette, Brown and Dartmouth and what ammounted to a half scholarship at Duke.

Duffner was still the HC at Holy Cross and he damn near had me verbally commit to HC (thank god I didn't cause he left the following year). I chose Lafayette because they had great academics, great campus, great football tradition and they seemed to be on the upswing. Close enough to home (King of Prussia, PA) to go home and do laundry every now and then, yet far enough that my mom wouldn't stop by for regular, unannounced visits. :) Duke would have been awesome but a half scholarshi to Duke is still too rich for my blood. I counted Brown out because it their football program SUCKED at the time (perhaps a little short sighted of me). I discounted Dartmouth becasue I didn't want to go to NH. Which is funny becasue I met my NH wife at Lafayette and am entering my 10th year as a NH resident.

I had a GREAT experience at Lafayette! I recommend it whole heartedly. Got my brother to transfer from Nova. Convinced my little brother to go as well.

[carney2]

Back in my high school days I had to make this decision on my own. The high school guidance counselor was not helpful and I was only the second person in my extended family to have college aspirations, so no advice there. I did a haphazard "search" and applied to schools for the dumbest of reasons. For instance, I applied to Lafayette because a high school friend of mine was a Lehigh legacy and I was tired of hearing about it. In any event, when all was said and done, I was accepted by every school to which I applied, and Lafayette appeared to be the best fit academically when I calmly sorted them out. I never regretted the decision, but I always wondered what would have happened if I had sharpened my sights a little better. With my own kids, for instance, I was very much involved in the application and selection process, and made it a goal for each of them to receive at least one rejection letter so that we "knew" that we had done the best that we could.

[ucdtim17]

I wanted to stay in northern california so I could ski. I grew up 5 minutes from UC Berkeley, so I didn't want to go there. I couldn't get in to Stanford. Davis was the only logical choice and the only school I applied to. One of the best public schools in the country, cheap in state tuition an hour away from home and 90 minutes from skiing. It was perfect

[Cocky]

1) The Girls
2) The Girls
3) The Girls

[93henfan]

1. The Stone Balloon
2. The Deer Park Tavern
3. Klondike Kate's
4. The Down Under

Unfortunately, UD got some kind of federal grant since I left to curb the binge and underage drinking and has tamed down quite a bit from my heyday (late 80s early 90s - the Bill Vergantino years).

[GrizFamily]

1. It was the only choice in Montana
2.

[HiHiYikas]

I just wound up at the closest State institution to my hometown. Plans to transfer to Chapel Hill were scrapped when I got a church job and got engaged. And, though I've never visited Carolina's department, I believe our printing program is better equipped.

I have become a more loyal fan as an alumnus than I ever was while a student. Didn't see much of the fiancée when I was in Boone, and for some reason, she wasn't too big on driving back up the mountain for football games. Now she's my wife, and I just leave her at home.

[GrizFamily]

1. It was the only choice in Montana
2.

Oh yeah I almost forgot

3. WAGRIZ

[DemiGS]

I loved the campus, and the experience is great. My little brother attended UGA, and was performing well (3.6GPA) but was continually frustrated with the bureaucracy and quality of education. He eventually transferred to GSU and loved it. Some schools like Georgia have inflated numbers (SAT, entrance requirements, etc) but the actual education is lacking. My instruction at Southern was top notch, and I would not have attended any other school for Information Systems. What other school has one of these??

http://cit.georgiasouthern.edu/about.php

[blukeys]

I had no idea what program I wanted to pursue. I had been a UD fan since I was a kid. I had in-state tuition and it is a beautiful and fun campus.

[TexasTerror]

1. Was told I could be on ESPN (and did work for ESPN Radio)
2. Was told I could do play by play (did a bit of that within two weeks of being a freshman before I found my real passion)
3. Was told not too much math and science and no foreign language (and that was true).
4. Close to Houston (65 mi N of Houston)
5. A chance to play in the NCAA tournament (traveled to Tampa in 2003 for SHSU's first bid)

[NoCoDanny]

Well at least one person sort of admitted his choice was his safety school. But I'm not ashamed to admit that. But the funny thing, after a year I transferred to Colorado State thinking that's what I wanted out of high school but ended up returning to UNC to finish up because I ended up preferring the smaller school setting.

[JMU2004]

plenty of reasons

1. It was the best school I got into. Chose JMU over Clemson, VT, ASU, South Carolina, NC State, and Alabama
2. Amazing social life xprost2x
3. Awesome campus and beautiful area
4. Excellent business school
5. THE GIRLS :hurray: :hyped:

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

First person in the extended family to attend college also without much guidance at home or at high school. Did a lot of research using's Lovejoy's guide to locate schools with the location, size, academic averages, and majors that I was interested in. Unsure of my civil engineering choice, state universities looked like a good option (switch major without a transfer).

Showing my age, we were able to get free roadmaps at gas stations. On them they used the mortar board and tassel symbol to designate college locations. From that I knew where UNH was located and its relative proximity to my grandparents in northeastern Massachusetts. Didn't feel very comfortable up in Storrs at UConn so I was looking elsewhere. One summer trip to visit the grandparents, I asked to go up to see UNH.

Driving off I-95 on US 4 on a gorgeous day, I was very impressed with the scenery as the Piscataqua River, the Little Bay entrance to the Great Bay estuary, the Bellamy River and the Oyster River went by. Took the tour and saw the campus and I was hooked.

I picked two other schools but really didn't care about them at all. I didn't step foot once on my second choice campus until over 30 years later! Didn't apply to the in-state U as a safety school. Pretty dumb looking back!! But for once I was lucky and was accepted at UNH. Turned out to be a great place for me! And I even grew to love Winter, but I didn't have a clue what I was getting into back in 1968!!

[OL FU]

1. It was the only choice in Montana
2.

Good Choice :nod:

[OL FU]

Close to home.
Had a job in Gville
Unlike most I realized that I had very little willpower and if I went to USC or Clemson, I would have flunked everything but the party degree. :eek: :nod:

[kardplayer]

Similar to UNH_Alum_In_CT, I didn't have a lot of guidance from my high school - they pretty much handed me the Princeton Review or US News or someone's rankings and said "Good Luck".

- My stepmother went to Lehigh
- When I was a HS freshman, the captain of the football team and the valedictorian both went to Lafayette (both of whom I thought were pretty smart guys), so I figured that was a school with a good blend of academics/athletics too
- I liked the Lehigh/Lafayette tradition and that there was a natural rival (this is also why I would donate to Lafayette if that was the only way to keep them I-AA)
- Lehigh went to March Madness my Jr. year of HS, so I figured there'd be at least 1 trip while I was there (turns out I couldn't have been more wrong, there's been one trip since I hit campus in 1990, and that was a play-in game loss 2 years ago)
- I went to visit both one Saturday and liked the Lehigh campus a lot better, plus the Greek ratio of about 50% was right up my alley
- I wanted to be an accountant (to this day, 15 years later, I still have no idea why), and 75% of the LU graduating class went to Big 6 firms at the time
- They accepted me early, despite me having just gone through the regular application period, and had a weekend where I got to meet other "Key Candidates" so I had a mini-network when I got there
- I liked the close enough to go home for laundry/too far for drop in visits ratio
- I liked the legend that Playboy refused to rank them amongst its top party schools because "we don't rank professionals along with the amateurs at other schools"...

[aggie6thman]

-Top 10 Public school on the country
-Less than an hours drive from home
-Ag school (even though I am Poli Sci)
-UC School
-Has a football team, thought about UCSB, but they lack the "American" football program, so that canceled it out

[Poly Pigskin]

Poly is probably the best engineering school for its price in the country, with lots of hands-on experience rather than pure theory. It's also the only school in the state offering a spacecraft design concentration, to my knowledge. The awesome location (and girls) are just an added bonus.

[blukeys]

Unsure of my civil engineering choice, state universities looked like a good option (switch major without a transfer).



Now if you had gone to Delaware you would have been the State's Secretary of Transportation.

New Transportation Chief (http://www.newszap.com/articles/2006/01/18/dm/central_delaware/dsn01.txt)

Although she is no doubt much better looking than you.

[SU Jag]

-My dad played for SU back in the late 70s early 80s
-My mom was one of the first women to march in the Southern "Human Jukebox" Marching band in the late 70s early 80s
-I grew up going to SU games, and I was a big fan from birth
-My family is a big SU family, every weekend during football season is like a Family Reunion
-They offered my a scholarship
-It was a dream of mine to wear the blue and gold
-Its a great school and its in a college town along with LSU
-I loved the coaching staff, the football tradition, and the passion of the fans
-Some of the best looking women I've ever seen was on Southern's campus! :)
-It was either Southern, Arkansas Tech, Clark-Atlanta, Tulane, Troy, or UL-Monroe and I picked SU on Signing Day!

[UNH 40]

Coach Mac was the only I-AA coach that believed i could play at this level. I would have chosen UNH even if i was recieving scholarships from other schools. I loved the campus, the coaching staff, and most importantly the great charactor of the players that played there.

[tralfangar]

Got into Chapel-Hill, State, Asheville, but I've always hated State (growing up there in Raleigh), Asheville was too small (smaller than my high school), and Chapel-Hill was too big of a school and my entire family went there so I felt pressured to go there....suffice it to say that I chose against it.

Never heard much about App growing up in ACC basketball country, but when I went up to visit I instantly fell in love and knew it was the place for me. Helping this decision was that it was cheaper, I would have smaller class sizes, hardly anyone from my high school was going there so I could meet new people, I was told they had a respectable football program, and it was far enough away from home that I could be away, but close enough that I could go home any weekend I had the desire.

Didn't really see anything about things people don't like about their schools, but I'll post some, because I think we all know that every place can't be perfect, it's just a better overall fit for a particular person.

The downfalls of ASU for me are :

- lack of diversity
- lower median intelligence than the area in which I grew up
- lack of respect from the rest of the state (this is steadily reversing, but it still irks me)
- overall conservative views of the student population 53/47 conservative/liberal
- lack of competitive pay for faculty

However, despite these flaws (which are MY opinion), I still love my school and plan to do everything I can for it once I graduate.

[blukeys]

Coach Mac was the only I-AA coach that believed i could play at this level. I would have chosen UNH even if i was recieving scholarships from other schools. I loved the campus, the coaching staff, and most importantly the great charactor of the players that played there.


Since 2000 I have said that McConnell is the best A-10 coach there is. I have no reason to change my opinion today.

[Ivytalk]

I chose Harvard because of its superior academics, the most diverse student body anywhere, and its proximity to Boston. Princeton was my second pick but, although it has a beautiful campus and claims to have the best undergraduate program in the Ivies, it just wasn't as good overall. And it still isn't. (Sorry, 13!)

[colgate13]

For me:

1. Football
2. Academics
3. Aid
4. Family connections
5. School atmosphere

Also heavily recruited by Cornell, Dartmouth, Lehigh and Columbia. I was pretty certain I wanted liberal arts, and Colgate just fit right.

[ngineer]

I was recruited at Lehigh, Lafayette, Cornell, and Delaware. Came down to Lehigh and Lafayette since after visits, I realized I preferred a smaller school.
Coach Dunlap was (and still is a class guy), plus I fell in love with Lehigh's campus with all the gothic towers and ivy walls, despite the mountainside. I had also heard that Coach Gamble at Lafayette was 'said' to be going to Penn, so the idea of a program in transition caused some concern. Didn't qualify for any 'aid' so that had not impact. Was also interested in economics and possible law/labor relations at the time and their Dept. of Economics was, and still is, very strong. Spent two great weekends at both Lafayette and Lehigh, but South Mountain just felt like home.
Interesting side story. On recruiting trip to Lafayette, I got pulled over by Pa. St. Trooper on Route 22 for exceeding speed limit. Had my football game tapes in the back seat. He saw those and thought he hit a 'porno' trafficker and had me take the tapes back to the squad car. After opening the first few cans, and seeing they were game tapes, his attitude changed 180 degrees. Said he followed both Lafayatte and Lehigh, and ended up knocking my ticket down. :D

[blur2005]

If the WAHOO WA at the bottom doesn't suffice to explain it, I go to UVA:

1. Academics, easily one of the best in the country
2. Sports, we're in the ACC
3. Student life - study hard, party harder here
4. Charlottesville is awesome
5. It's Mr. Jefferson's university, has great tradition and excellence...who was your school's founder? :) (please, no one take that as a mean comment, I kid, I kid)

[DC 'gater]

My official visits were Colgate, Lehigh, Lafayette, and URI.

My trip to Colgate was highlighted by a snowstorm, go figure, and a really good time at the frats. The guys that would become my teammates were great. Then Def. Coordinator Kevin Callahan really sold me on the Colgate tradition. The challenging schedule we played in the "pre playoff" Colonial League was attractive. Army, Navy, Syracuse, Duke, Vandy,and Rutgers were on the future schedules as well as UNH, W&M, and Boston U. Also, I did a little research, and it looked like Colgate gave me the best chance to play early. It worked, I played in 42 games over four years and started 39.

I wouldn't change a thing.

[JMU2004]

1. Academics, easily one of the best in the country
2. Sports, we're in the ACC
3. Student life - study hard, party harder here
4. Charlottesville is awesome
5. It's Mr. Jefferson's university...who was your school's founder? :) (please, no one take that as a mean comment, I kid, I kid)


UVa....rich, arrogant, elitist, and preppy. If your daddy is rich, you can buy your way in. Being from St. Chris in Richmond, I saw it about 10-15 times a year.

Excellent school if you can avoid the upper crust crap the surrounds rugby road et al. I know many kids who went there, including a couple who never belonged at UVa but were "ushered in". Many were expelled for cheating in the "how things work" seminar back in 2001-2002

UVa - hard to get there, easy to stay

[DaGriz]

At 17 I took a road trip with a friend to check out Montana. It was a 22 hour drive. Had no idea where we were going. I had always heard Montana was a great place. We ended up in Missoula. Played golf, explored the area and basically I hated it, but when got home after the road trip I thought it was better than living at home with the parents so I packed my truck and moved to Glacier, MT three months later. The only football I could pick up on my crappy radio on Saturdays was Griz football, I began to follow them and eventually moved to Missoula and fell in love with Missoula. I eventually got a degree in Math and had a wonderful college experience.

[blur2005]

UVa....rich, arrogant, elitist, and preppy. If your daddy is rich, you can buy your way in. Being from St. Chris in Richmond, I saw it about 10-15 times a year.

Excellent school if you can avoid the upper crust crap the surrounds rugby road et al. I know many kids who went there, including a couple who never belonged at UVa but were "ushered in". Many were expelled for cheating in the "how things work" seminar back in 2001-2002

UVa - hard to get there, easy to stay
Why they would bother to cheat in How Things Work is a question I would have. It doesn't seem to be a particularly difficult course. On the attacks you made, UVA may be most or even all of the above, but it's still the best school in Virginia, sorry W&M. US News and World Report's #23, second only to Berkeley among publics. Funny enough, UVA seems to be the most diverse school in the state, so while it may be elitist and preppy, it sure as hell makes an effort to be all-inclusive. Its remarkable diversity is one of the main reasons I like it.

Also, my daddy isn't rich; he's a professor at JMU. I'm fairly certain there aren't a lot of people who can just "buy" their way into UVA, but that kind of thing happens at lots of schools. Just look at George W. at Yale...

[JMU2004]

Why they would bother to cheat in How Things Work is a question I would have. It doesn't seem to be a particularly difficult course. On the attacks you made, UVA may be most or even all of the above, but it's still the best school in Virginia, sorry W&M. US News and World Report's #23, second only to Berkeley among publics. Funny enough, UVA seems to be the most diverse school in the state, so while it may be elitist and preppy, it sure as hell makes an effort to be all-inclusive. Its remarkable diversity is one of the main reasons I like it.

Also, my daddy isn't rich; he's a professor at JMU. I'm fairly certain there aren't a lot of people who can just "buy" their way into UVA, but that kind of thing happens at lots of schools. Just look at George W. at Yale...

my friend....I mean no offense to you

HOWEVER, I maintain that UVa is vastly overrated for an undergrad education. I know MANY kids with under 1200's who got in, and graduated easily. Easy to get in IF you have the right connections, and I assure you, St. Chris in Richmond is a UVa feeder school. UVa has excellent GRAD schools, but when it comes to undergrad, I would have to say that W&M is superior. Then you have UVa, then JMU, and then VT (unless you are in engineering)

All is well. I ended up at JMU, and could not be happier. In fact, I hope to attend Darden in the Fall. They tell me I need more work experience though xcoffeex

[Harvard Worship]

This is gonna sound lame, but I went to Harvard because of the name. As an ignorant high-school senior I actually wanted to go to Swarthmore more, but once I got in, I felt stuck -- how do you turn down Harvard?
Glad I made the right decision: fyi, Swarthmore dropped their football team the year I would have been a freshman. College and no football to watch sounds like no fun to me.

[ASU Kep]

Snowboarding.

[UNH 40]

Since 2000 I have said that McConnell is the best A-10 coach there is. I have no reason to change my opinion today.

I agree with you. No coach in the country works harder at his job than coach Mac. For example before we got the nice new practice facility that we have now i can remember seeing him out on the practice field during the summer months with a rake and shovel by himself trying to prepare the practice field for fall camp. I can't imagine there is any other coach in the country doing this. He is a great motivater one of the best pre-game speakers that i have ever seen. But most importantly coach Mac is true to his word and very fair with his players, he gives everybody a chance to prove themselves. I was a walk-on at UNH he said i would get a fair shot, and i got one. He allowed me to earn a full scholarship, become a starter, a captain, and coached me to be an all American. There is a reason he was the winner of the Eddie Robinson coach of the year, and it goes well beyond being a good on the field coach. He is able to get the most out every player he has.

[bandl]

my friend....I mean no offense to you

HOWEVER, I maintain that UVa is vastly overrated for an undergrad education. I know MANY kids with under 1200's who got in, and graduated easily. Easy to get in IF you have the right connections, and I assure you, St. Chris in Richmond is a UVa feeder school. UVa has excellent GRAD schools, but when it comes to undergrad, I would have to say that W&M is superior. Then you have UVa, then JMU, and then VT (unless you are in engineering)

All is well. I ended up at JMU, and could not be happier. In fact, I hope to attend Darden in the Fall. They tell me I need more work experience though xcoffeex

Me no likey UVA. I dated a girl there for 2 years, while I was at JMU. Talk about two TOTALLY different worlds. :eek:

[colgate13]

This is gonna sound lame, but I went to Harvard because of the name.

Nothing lame about it. You and how many other high school seniors did the same? The name is the name for a reason. Can you say you didn't get one of if not the best education in the world? That Harvard degree has no tarnish on it.

Now, swarthmore, yuck!

[HENJOHN]

I agree with you. No coach in the country works harder at his job than coach Mac. For example before we got the nice new practice facility that we have now i can remember seeing him out on the practice field during the summer months with a rake and shovel by himself trying to prepare the practice field for fall camp. I can't imagine there is any other coach in the country doing this. He is a great motivater one of the best pre-game speakers that i have ever seen. But most importantly coach Mac is true to his word and very fair with his players, he gives everybody a chance to prove themselves. I was a walk-on at UNH he said i would get a fair shot, and i got one. He allowed me to earn a full scholarship, become a starter, a captain, and coached me to be an all American. There is a reason he was the winner of the Eddie Robinson coach of the year, and it goes well beyond being a good on the field coach. He is able to get the most out every player he has.

I have heard some of this type of complimentary comments from some of the the UD staff. I thought that anyone that can do what he has done with recruiting and winning the way he has with that stadium and atmosphere, must have something going on. No offense, but I have been up to Cowell a few times and it isn't exactly inspiring.
I seem to remember him when I was at UD. Was he a DB back at UNH in the mid-70's?

[UNH 40]

I have heard some of this type of complimentary comments from some of the the UD staff. I thought that anyone that can do what he has done with recruiting and winning the way he has with that stadium and atmosphere, must have something going on. No offense, but I have been up to Cowell a few times and it isn't exactly inspiring.
I seem to remember him when I was at UD. Was he a DB back at UNH in the mid-70's?

Cowell stadium isn't a site for sore eyes thats for sure, but with the new surface that was just put in the playing field condition should be as good as any in the conference. Hopefully we can get a new stadium up in Durham in the near future now is the time to do it with all of the success we have had in the past two years, with a new staduim it would bring more great players to UNH. And yes Coach Mac what a saftey for UNH in the mid 70's i believe he was all conference not sure though.

[GannonFan]

I went to UD solely for the chemical engineering major - outside of MIT, there's no better place in the East to go with that major. Actually turned down W&M because they didn't have it. Of course it helped that I'd been going to UD games since being in the womb (going to be year #35 for me this season) but without that major I would've been somewhere else.

[Gil Dobie]

The recruiting question got me thinking...

Why did you choose to go to your school? Played sports, academics, location, non-sports scholarship, had your major, etc... Oh and if your screen name and/or your avatar doesnt indicate where you are from please provide...

Course of study and geography.

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

I have heard some of this type of complimentary comments from some of the the UD staff. I thought that anyone that can do what he has done with recruiting and winning the way he has with that stadium and atmosphere, must have something going on. No offense, but I have been up to Cowell a few times and it isn't exactly inspiring.
I seem to remember him when I was at UD. Was he a DB back at UNH in the mid-70's?

Yes, Sean was a walk-on success story at UNH. He played DB and was the team MVP in 1978. He started for the 1975 and 1976 Yankee Conference Champion teams. Arguably, the two best UNH teams up to the past two seasons. More than coincidence IMHO.

The experience that UNH 40 describes probably is similar to Sean's with long time UNH coach Bill Bowes!

[gokats85]

SHSU had one of the best Radio/TV/Film programs around at the time, so off I went to "Huntsvegas".

[MarkCCU]

Coastal was two hours northwest of my hometown, my cousin graduated from there and I wanted to get out of Charleston. Ithink those are the main reasons...

[Pard4Life]

Much to the chagrin of the old farts on the Board of Trustees who say that basketball and athletics have NO bearing whatsoever on your college's imagae... I was first attracted to Lafayette because they had an oustanding basketball team. I remember watching the PL Tourney title on ESPN2 seeing the Kirby Center on TV. I also knew of Easton because I visited the Crayon factory in 8th grade. Also, I was a big Princeton basketball fan and Lafayette beat them one year, so that of course stuck with me.

But on the more serious side, I remember thinking in the summer of senior year 'oh yeah.. Lafayette.. let's get some info from there'. (I actually found my preliminary college list the other month and I had 'Lafayette University' written.) Liked the school because very nice campus, it was small like my high school, small classes, got to know profs. very well, and a good international affairs and history department, and a top notch legal advisor... (who wrote a best-selling law admissions book but was essentially kicked out of the school by a Rothkopf croney) Also as a prespective they treated you really nice with socials at local alums' homes, and the school was on the upswing.

I admit it wasn't my top choice though. I liked Middlebury alot... close there, but no cigar. Got into George Washington.. but they had no football and dorms looked like crap.

Colgate 13 will like this one... but I remember sitting in my high school guidence office and my counselor asked me... how do you feel about collges in New York State? My answer... 'God no.. it's a desolate waste'.. a car ride to Cooperstown and back had a major influence on that.. damn that rt. 17 and 20... Only later did I learn of Colgate's strong reputation, history, international affairs programs, and DI ice hockey. Most likely would have applied there if I wasn't a stubborn mule. :)

[SoCon48]

Now she's my wife, and I just leave her at home.
I know and thanks. I'm your next door neighbor.

Just joking. Glad you chose App.

[UD1993]

I rec'd a recruitment letter from the XC/Track coach. I went down for a visit, met the coach, loved the campus and the rest is history. UD was the last school I applied to. I had already heard back from Rutgers and Michigan St. before I even considered UD. I also liked UD because it was far enough away from home (North Jersey), it had cheap out of state tuition and I did not want to stay in NJ.

[colgate13]

Colgate 13 will like this one... but I remember sitting in my high school guidence office and my counselor asked me... how do you feel about collges in New York State? My answer... 'God no.. it's a desolate waste'.. a car ride to Cooperstown and back had a major influence on that.. damn that rt. 17 and 20... Only later did I learn of Colgate's strong reputation, history, international affairs programs, and DI ice hockey. Most likely would have applied there if I wasn't a stubborn mule. :)

We put that image out there to keep out the rif-raf. Seems to have worked. ;):)

j/k

[HI54UNI]

I had a choice, an academic scholarship to UNI or a track scholarship to a private college. My knees were starting to give me some problems (I ran distance races in track) so I took the academic over the track. Plus UNI's two big programs are education and business so the female to male ratio when I was there was something like 2.5:1. I like a target rich environment! :beerchug:

[The Gadfly]

In state tuition, location, and football

[RadMann]

In the last few decades the state of Delaware has been one of the top states for financing in-state tuition costs per capita. For that reason, Delaware is a great bargain especially given the school is always highly ranked academically. For example with me, I had a big tuition drop when I went to UD compared to high school. Also, UD was ahead of the curve with their honors program when many/most state universities did not have such a program. I was in that program and it really was a good deal.

I could have gone to other nearby private schools with similarly ranked Business programs as UD and paid 4 to 5 times more, but why do it if the state is going to cover the tab for most of the cost of educating me. It was a no brainer from my perspective (although originally I really wanted to get away from home and go to UVA)... I grew up in Newark, so it was odd living on campus in the dorms but being able to walk home to visit the folks if I wanted to.... lol

[blackfordpu]

The recruiting question got me thinking...

Why did you choose to go to your school? Played sports, academics, location, non-sports scholarship, had your major, etc... Oh and if your screen name and/or your avatar doesnt indicate where you are from please provide...



I picked Texas State because of location (Love the Texas hill country) and academics have been on the rise. Also always seemed like a fun school.

Picked Sam Houston because they have one of the best Journalism schools in the nation. Also, had some friends that went there and it. Small school and was in my price range. :)

[SeattleGriz]

Interesting question.

As someone who grew up in Northcentral Montana (Power - Wheat farming), I was not only expecting, but expected to go to Montana State in Bozeman. Every kid from a farming town went to Bozeman for the Business Agriculture degree they offer.

I had to go to Missoula. My father lived there, and it was the only way I could pay for college - free room and board.

I was one of the few kids to go to school in Missoula from my school. In fact, after I showed up in 1986, the Griz started to win in football, mens BB and womens BB. Thats right - people can thank me for coming to Missoula and bringing the winning ways with me!! :D

Once I got there, I realized I had made the right choice.

[AmsterBison]

NDSU:

1. Cheap (tuitition was $315 a quarter - less than 100 hours at minimum wage at the time).
2. They were serious about my major (computer science).
3. Lots of friends going there, including high school sweetheart.
4. A lawn crew that made my heart shift down into second and then shoot directly to 8300 RPM. I don't know who those girls were, but rumor had it that they were on the track team.*

*90% of the guys I asked about it listed the lawn crew as one of the main reasons they attended NDSU... the others, well, either they didn't visit in the summer or they weren't interested in girls because the lawn crew appeared to be absolute godesses.

[OSRacer]

1. Showed the most interest
2. The football facilities (although the older I get the more I hate turf)
3. This little chubby rodeo chick who smoked Marlboro reds and drank Yellowstone whiskey out of a old pickled egg jar (I went through some strange phases in Murray)
4. Kentucky lake
5. Great visit...picked MSU over Western KY

[melloAggiesousa]

1. Location. 35 miles from Fair Oaks, CA...close enough to home to help out the folks on non-football weekends, far enough away to necessitate living near campus.
2. Academics. At the time, a top-ten Engineering school. So hard to get into, UC tried to redirect me to Berkeley (no, thanks)!
3. Great Football team. Two consecutive playoff appearances at the end of the Seventies, including a game against Lehigh. Starting quarterback had just been drafted by the Falcons (he's now our Offensive Coordinator).
4. Great Marching Band. High-stepping Big Ten style...a friend came back home to tell us "they party every night" and I thought that was a plus. I liked it so much, I remained an undergrad for ten years. OK, maybe it wasn't a plus.
5. It wasn't USC. My dad got his masters from Southern Cal, and the Trojans wanted me to go there. Let's see...live equidistant (80 miles each way) from the coast (abalone diving) and the mountains (skiing) surrounded by ag land (lots of wineries) and rivers (salmon fishing) with golfing available 12 months a year; or dodge bullets in downtown L.A. Let me think about that one...
6. Cyclotron on campus, next to hog barns. Now, THAT's nuking your pork chops!

[CoastalFan2005]

My reasons for choosing Coastal Carolina University:

1) I had the opportunity to be a part of major beginnings (first year of marching band, first year to support football, be a part of a very young music department) and to help lay the foundation for a big part of CCU's future

2) I don't pay for school, the glorious State of South Carolina does

3) Once I got here, I had a chance to colonize a chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi

4) I've lived within 30 minutes of Coastal my entire life...don't really mind the living at home thing too much (minimal bills = :D )

5) I wouldn't have enjoyed USC or Clemson as much...I like the small size of CCU

That's about it for me, :)

[Maverick]

Because it was the only one my probation officer would approve. The others were too far for my work-release program. Once that was settled the choice was obvious. My degree program could be completed in 3-5 years. That was a number I could work with.


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[lugo02]

I chose Lehigh because the dog ate my acceptance letter from Princeton, Drexel claimed that they never received my application and I didn't bother filling out another one.

I strongly considered Clarkson University in upstate NY, but I visited them in January, the snow and distance from NYC was a negative but they were still at the top of my list, in the end it it came down to Lehigh and Clarkson and I waited until the end of April to make my decision too.

I sent my acceptance to Clarkson first but 1 week later I changed my mind, I called to cancel my decision to go there and I sent my accpetance to Lehigh on May 1st.

Lehigh won out because, they offered the better Financial Aid package.
Money talks!!!

[HaveFunKc]

1) Best undergrad business school in North Carolina. (the ONLY accredited undergrad business school in NC at the time)
2) Best Marching band around.
3) Best place for tailgating while in the stands I have ever expereinced in my life!
4) Snowtubing
5) The campus

[BLUEEAGLE]

I grew up in Statesboro, 1/2 block from campus. It wasn't a tough decision for my parents and I to make :asswhip:
When I was at GSU the ratio of girls to guys was 3-1 :hyped:

[crunifan]

I chose UNI because:

1) Very good academic reputation
2) Beautiful campus
3) Close to home (an hour away from Cedar Rapids)
4) Great business school, especially accounting

[SactoHornetFan]

1) My dad started working at Sacramento State a month before I was born.
2) Being in a marching band that actually plays with musicianship.
3) Being in a PolySci program (Government at Sac) that had more practical experience and better internships than ucd.
4) Best value for an education-I paid $900/semester as opposed to those delusional aggies who pay nearly $2K/quarter :eek:
5) Having professors actually teach classes unlike those at ucd where GA's and TA's teach.

GO HORNETS!!!

[Poly Pigskin]

2) Being in a marching band that actually plays with musicianship.


High school bands are for musicianship, college bands are for drinking! xprost2x

[gokats85]

High school bands are for musicianship, college bands are for drinking! xprost2x

BINGO! "Warming up" meant we were at happy hour! :beerchug: :beerchug: :beerchug: :beerchug: :beerchug: :beerchug: xprost2x xprost2x xprost2x xprost2x xprost2x xprost2x

[SactoHornetFan]

High school bands are for musicianship, college bands are for drinking! xprost2x

That too and we did plenty of that when I was in the Sacramento State Marching Band

[blukeys]

High school bands are for musicianship, college bands are for drinking! xprost2x


If you can't drink and perform then you are obviously an extremely lame band such as Princeton or even worse VILLANOVA :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

As an old time blue's musician I can tell you that musicianship and drinking are not mutually exclusive. So drop your pretensions. Good musicianship is good musicianship regardless of your level of intoxication! :hurray: :hurray:

By the way if you can't play well after a couple of drinks then lighten up your drinking and quit posing. Practice more till you can play your part in your sleep. Then drink and let it all hang out!!!

Bandl do you agree?????? :)

[LeopardFan04]

1)Academics
2)Aid package
3)The chance to go to a small school an hour from home, and still cheer on DI sports teams...I remember seeing the Zoo Crew on ESPN on the PL championship game, and thought 'I gotta be a part of that...' and I wound up running the group my senior year...plus the rivalry w/ Lehigh that I grew up watching had great appeal...and yes, I got in there too...

[Poly Pigskin]

By the way if you can't play well after a couple of drinks then lighten up your drinking and quit posing. Practice more till you can play your part in your sleep. Then drink and let it all hang out!!!


The music is never a problem, since pep band music is nice and easy. Marching on the other hand...let's just say those straight line formations are a little tougher when everything is spinning. :rotateh:

[kats89]

I chose Sam Houston St. because I didn't pay a tuition, I paid a cover charge. xazzx :lmao:

[SunCoastBlueHen]

I grew up in Newark, Delaware is a real bargain for in-state students, and Lafayette didn't give me quite enough "need based assistance" to play baseball there.

[bandl]

If you can't drink and perform then you are obviously an extremely lame band such as Princeton or even worse VILLANOVA :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

As an old time blue's musician I can tell you that musicianship and drinking are not mutually exclusive. So drop your pretensions. Good musicianship is good musicianship regardless of your level of intoxication! :hurray: :hurray:

By the way if you can't play well after a couple of drinks then lighten up your drinking and quit posing. Practice more till you can play your part in your sleep. Then drink and let it all hang out!!!

Bandl do you agree?????? :)
No doubt! :nod: I quickly found out that after the first 8 drinks or so, marching/playing at the same time is MUCH easier inebriated with one eye closed. :beerchug: Playing while housed was never the problem...

[bison95]

1. Bison Pride
2. Happy Harrys
3. Proximity to The Univ. Of Chubs
4. and last but not least: Because Weebles Wabble but they don't fall down!!!

[Pards Rule]

I narrowed the choices to: Lafayette, Bucknell, Lehigh, Colgate & Hamilton. I was well familiar with Bucknell as the family used to vacation there for a week in the summer (yes the mod housing was only $7 a day back in the late 70s and my frugal mother was delighted! The men played golf while mom was content with barn-sales). But, alas, I determined I wanted to strike my own iron and BU was too far. Also, went to visit Colgate/Hamilton in early Nov. 1979 during the timeoff we had for the NJ Teachers Convention in Atlantic City and it snowed like 4 inches and was windy! I was thinking if this is Nov. what the hell must Feb. be like? That and the proximity issue (I was looking to be like 2-3 hours away as I knew I had to do some Greyhounding as my dad traveled alot and mom didn't like to drive alone at night). So, down to LC & LU. Maybe it was destiny that I visited Lehigh on a gray Nov. day. It just seemed so foreboding (and that hill!). I remember thinking I gotta climb that after failing a Monday morning calc exam! Lafayette seemed the fit: smaller school (2200), but a legitimate spotlight for sports. I remember seeing Lafayette's score on the old Prudential college scoreboard (with the old slip-in names & scores like at the airport gates until recently) and thinking its big enough for me. So, in Dec. 1979 I did a somewhat unusual thing back then: applied early decision (not very many at all did it 25 years ago). I think that early decision helped me as my SATs were achi-achi. Got my acceptance letter right before New Years and remember driving onto campus on Sept. 2, 1980 to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust". But I didn't! :smiley_wi

[BlackSaturday]

1) Excellent Pre-professional program (over 70% acceptance rate, 2x national avg)
2) Amazing campus in the mountains
3) Only school I visited where the students looked happy as they walked around campus
4) HS sweetheart went to ETSU
5) Wanted to go out of state (no way I was going to Marshall, and WVU was too large)

[Pard4Life]

I narrowed the choices to: Lafayette, Bucknell, Lehigh, Colgate & Hamilton. I was well familiar with Bucknell as the family used to vacation there for a week in the summer (yes the mod housing was only $7 a day back in the late 70s and my frugal mother was delighted! The men played golf while mom was content with barn-sales). But, alas, I determined I wanted to strike my own iron and BU was too far. Also, went to visit Colgate/Hamilton in early Nov. 1979 during the timeoff we had for the NJ Teachers Convention in Atlantic City and it snowed like 4 inches and was windy! I was thinking if this is Nov. what the hell must Feb. be like? That and the proximity issue (I was looking to be like 2-3 hours away as I knew I had to do some Greyhounding as my dad traveled alot and mom didn't like to drive alone at night). So, down to LC & LU. Maybe it was destiny that I visited Lehigh on a gray Nov. day. It just seemed so foreboding (and that hill!). I remember thinking I gotta climb that after failing a Monday morning calc exam! Lafayette seemed the fit: smaller school (2200), but a legitimate spotlight for sports. I remember seeing Lafayette's score on the old Prudential college scoreboard (with the old slip-in names & scores like at the airport gates until recently) and thinking its big enough for me. So, in Dec. 1979 I did a somewhat unusual thing back then: applied early decision (not very many at all did it 25 years ago). I think that early decision helped me as my SATs were achi-achi. Got my acceptance letter right before New Years and remember driving onto campus on Sept. 2, 1980 to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust". But I didn't! :smiley_wi

Well you were not the only one who thought the Colgate is the place God forgot xlolx . Lafayette seems to let ok SATs slide if you have good grades and made a mark for yourself in HS. But I've always met students who have really high SATs, so I don't understand the numbers.

[Pards Rule]

Agreed! I just didn't do well on SATs, however, had a very good GPA in HS and was very involved in politics at the time (and not being able to vote cause I didn't turn 18 until 9/11/80) and I think LC was looking for some injection of politically active folk about that time as the campus was moribund in that respect. I was a local coordinator in John Anderson's run for president in 1980 (anyone remember him?)

[LBPop]

Speaking for the Kid, I pushed for Georgetown so I could go broke in four years, stop working and qualify for welfare. Now that I've paid for 2nd semester of his sophomore year I'm halfway to my goal. ;) :rolleyes: :bawling:

[Ivytalk]

Agreed! I just didn't do well on SATs, however, had a very good GPA in HS and was very involved in politics at the time (and not being able to vote cause I didn't turn 18 until 9/11/80) and I think LC was looking for some injection of politically active folk about that time as the campus was moribund in that respect. I was a local coordinator in John Anderson's run for president in 1980 (anyone remember him?)

Hell, yes, I remember him! I saw him at Harvard Law School with about 25 other people, before he was "discovered" by Doonesbury and became a celebrity. He looked just like Mr. Peabody of "Peabody and Sherman."

[bandl]

I haven't seen any Ivy/Patriot schoolers mention "the chicks are hot" as the reason they chose their school. So did the phrase "We're goin' hoggin'!!!" originate at one of your schools? :confused: ;)

[Ivytalk]

I haven't seen any Ivy/Patriot schoolers mention "the chicks are hot" as the reason they chose their school. So did the phrase "We're goin' hoggin'!!!" originate at one of your schools? :confused: ;)

I chose Harvard in spite of the women, not because of them! ;)

[SunCoastBlueHen]

I haven't seen any Ivy/Patriot schoolers mention "the chicks are hot" as the reason they chose their school. So did the phrase "We're goin' hoggin'!!!" originate at one of your schools? :confused: ;)

Ugly girls have more time to study...

[Pards Rule]

Ivytalk..LMAO! I never pictured Anderson as Mr. Peabody but now I do. Very nice man. About 3 years later (1983) a girl friend of mine was doing a report and I called his DC home and he gave her an hour interview on the phone! He really didn't know me as I only met him once in Princeton (at the old Treadway Inn on Route 1 - Princetonites remember that?) when he was in Jersey after he gave a speech in the NJ Assembly chambers in Trenton. I think that Treadway is now a Best Western? Its next to/near the Pep Boys.

[Ivytalk]

Ivytalk..LMAO! I never pictured Anderson as Mr. Peabody but now I do. Very nice man. About 3 years later (1983) a girl friend of mine was doing a report and I called his DC home and he gave her an hour interview on the phone! He really didn't know me as I only met him once in Princeton (at the old Treadway Inn on Route 1 - Princetonites remember that?) when he was in Jersey after he gave a speech in the NJ Assembly chambers in Trenton. I think that Treadway is now a Best Western? Its next to/near the Pep Boys.

I saw Anderson again at a reception just before the '80 election. By then, he was "on the map" and well on his way to his 6% vote and receipt of federal matching funds! Most of the attendees were rich old pharts who were competing with each other to see who had opposed Nixon the earliest. :rolleyes:

[Coastal89]

http://www.fairvote.org/about_us/anderson.jpg http://www.animationusa.com/picts/univpict/peabody.jpg
They do resemble each other.

[Pards Rule]

just add 40 plus years and it's right on the mark. Have fond memories of latching onto this no-name candidate in late 1979 and how he garnered amazing press coverage without winning a primary (he actually got headline mention by placing a few hundred votes behind Bush Sr. in Mass and the late Ronald Reagan in Vermont the same day, March 4, 1980, when he was a nobody to the rest of the USA). Now a professor at Nova University in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

[Ivytalk]

http://www.fairvote.org/about_us/anderson.jpg http://www.animationusa.com/picts/univpict/peabody.jpg
They do resemble each other.


Ahh! The Wayback Machine!! I loved that show!! Also Rocky, Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, and the whole gang.

[AZGrizFan]

Agreed! I just didn't do well on SATs, however, had a very good GPA in HS and was very involved in politics at the time (and not being able to vote cause I didn't turn 18 until 9/11/80) and I think LC was looking for some injection of politically active folk about that time as the campus was moribund in that respect. I was a local coordinator in John Anderson's run for president in 1980 (anyone remember him?)

Remember him? Hell, I cast my first presidential election vote for John Anderson.

[TheValleyRaider]

During the initial college search, Georgetown was my first choice, along with W&M. I went on a random jaunt up to Geneseo (a good 6 hour drive), and on the way back decided to stop at Colgate just for the heck of it. I knew I wanted a smaller school with strong liberal arts or social sciences, and Colgate just worked for me. The rejection from Georgetown was much easier to take when it came after my acceptances to Colgate and W&M. I loved Colgate's atmosphere, academics, 4 seasons (it was bright and sunny both times I visited), D-I athletics, and yes bandl, the girls were (and still very much are) smoking :nod: .

[blukeys]

During the initial college search, Georgetown was my first choice, along with W&M. I went on a random jaunt up to Geneseo (a good 6 hour drive), and on the way back decided to stop at Colgate just for the heck of it. I knew I wanted a smaller school with strong liberal arts or social sciences, and Colgate just worked for me. The rejection from Georgetown was much easier to take when it came after my acceptances to Colgate and W&M. I loved Colgate's atmosphere, academics, 4 seasons (it was bright and sunny both times I visited), D-I athletics, and yes bandl, the girls were (and still very much are) smoking :nod: .


Very Very Interesting I thought that W&M NEVER accepted anyone who had been rejected from another school!! You must be mistaken. "The College" would never accept someone who had been rejected by Georgetown :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[ngineer]

I haven't seen any Ivy/Patriot schoolers mention "the chicks are hot" as the reason they chose their school. So did the phrase "We're goin' hoggin'!!!" originate at one of your schools? :confused: ;)

LOVE the new avatar! Reminds me of some of the 'hill hoppers' we'd pick up on South Mountain! When I started at Lehigh, it was all male. BUT the 'chicks' weren't a problem. Several all-women colleges in the area, plus a magnet for coeds from several of the other colleges in the area. The University actually bused girls in. We had brown and white bumper stickers that said "Lehigh Cattle Car"... :rolleyes: Coeds started arriving in 1971 (125 in the first wave). Now about 2,000 women undergrads out of about 4500. It's not a coincidence that nearby Cedar Crotch..er Crest College was founded one year after Lehigh started up. :D

[ngineer]

I narrowed the choices to: Lafayette, Bucknell, Lehigh, Colgate & Hamilton. I was well familiar with Bucknell as the family used to vacation there for a week in the summer (yes the mod housing was only $7 a day back in the late 70s and my frugal mother was delighted! The men played golf while mom was content with barn-sales). But, alas, I determined I wanted to strike my own iron and BU was too far. Also, went to visit Colgate/Hamilton in early Nov. 1979 during the timeoff we had for the NJ Teachers Convention in Atlantic City and it snowed like 4 inches and was windy! I was thinking if this is Nov. what the hell must Feb. be like? That and the proximity issue (I was looking to be like 2-3 hours away as I knew I had to do some Greyhounding as my dad traveled alot and mom didn't like to drive alone at night). So, down to LC & LU. Maybe it was destiny that I visited Lehigh on a gray Nov. day. It just seemed so foreboding (and that hill!). I remember thinking I gotta climb that after failing a Monday morning calc exam! Lafayette seemed the fit: smaller school (2200), but a legitimate spotlight for sports. I remember seeing Lafayette's score on the old Prudential college scoreboard (with the old slip-in names & scores like at the airport gates until recently) and thinking its big enough for me. So, in Dec. 1979 I did a somewhat unusual thing back then: applied early decision (not very many at all did it 25 years ago). I think that early decision helped me as my SATs were achi-achi. Got my acceptance letter right before New Years and remember driving onto campus on Sept. 2, 1980 to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust". But I didn't! :smiley_wi

Howabout climbing it after football practice!? As freshmen, without cars, we were bused back to Taylor Gym and dropped off. Then had to climb up "The Hill" to the Freshman Quad (ol' Drinker Hall--how's that for the name of a dorm?!)

[Spider1976]

Richmond has a beautiful campus, secluded from the rest of the city. Never seen a prettier one.

Classes were small, all taught by PHDs. Full-time enrollment was 2700; when I lived on campus I felt I knew everyone else who lived on campus by name or by sight.

University was rising in stature at the time. The value of my degree has increased dramatically since I earned it, as the school's academic reputation has grown considerably.

We played Division I football at the time. We played North Carolina, West Virginia, Southern Miss, Va. Tech, Georgia, Wake Forest and East Carolina while I was in school. I saw us crush WVa, USM and Wake at City Stadium.

Believe it or not, considering the current $40,000+ annual tuition, it was very affordable at the time for a private school. Started at $2800 a year for tuition, room and board and it was only $4200 by the time I graduated.

Wonderful weather, except for the rainy winters. No snow was a real bonus for someone from the Western New York snowbelt.

Far enough away from home to get away, yet I could get home in three hours by plane or 10 in a car.

Club sandwiches and cold 3.2 beer at Phil's Continental Lounge.

[GSUhooligan]

1.Half the student population of UGA. Classes are taught by actual professors instead of T.A.'s.
2.Couldn't stand going to school in Atlanta, so no GT.
3.Vandy and Auburn were too expensive.

[RadMann]

Spider1976: U of Richmond still plays "division I" football. You are not on a I-A fan message board when you post here so you'll get a lot of heat from some for essentially calling I-AA division II. ;)

[ncbears]

Northern Colorado has a great teacher education program and a great history program. That's why I went! My wife is also going there to become a special education teacher. Yep, we are going to be one rich $$$$ couple.

[atlGAmocs]

I took a tour of the major state universities in Tennessee. MTSU felt like a big high school. Was not impressed by 300+ students in freshman classes. While visiting Chatty, the business professors and Dean all gave out their phone numbers and email address in case I had any questions. That was the biggest factor in my decision. I really liked the fact that my professors could call me by name in the hallways. GO MOCS!

[ncbears]

2) Amazing campus in the mountains




Those are NOT mountains. Come to Colorado and you will see mountains!

[Spider1976]

Didn't mean to impugn I-AA football. It's absolutely the right place for the Spiders, no doubt.

Just meant that we regularly played some current big-name I-A teams at the time I was chosing a college, and that was one of the attractions of UR.

[HiHiYikas]

Those are NOT mountains. Come to Colorado and you will see mountains!
I worked in Colorado one summer. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. Then I spent a summer in Western Kenya. Having seen both sets of mountains I can say that I agree with the Kenyan highlanders who said "it's what the Rockies want to be when they grow up."

I'll take the Blue Ridge, though, over the 110-degree summers in Kenya and the 0-degree winters in Colorado. Plus, it's only a 4.5-hour drive to the ocean.

[SactoHornetFan]

I'll take the Blue Ridge, though, over the 110-degree summers in Kenya and the 0-degree winters in Colorado. Plus, it's only a 4.5-hour drive to the ocean.

I'll take where I am at where its an hour to the mountains and two hours to the coast :hurray:

[HiHiYikas]

I'll take where I am at where its an hour to the mountains and two hours to the coast :hurray:
That's pretty much what Richmond has. Too close to the beach and too far from the mountains for my taste. Hurricane Isabel and Trop Storm Gaston really messed up the town.

[RadMann]

With the Appalachians running pretty much up the entire east coast, and the coastal mountains of the west doesn't just about anyone in the country that lives within a few hours of the ocean also live relatively near mountains? That criteria is met where most of the population of the country lives...

[HiHiYikas]

With the Appalachians running pretty much up the entire east coast, and the coastal mountains of the west doesn't just about anyone in the country that lives within a few hours of the ocean also live relatively near mountains? That criteria is met where most of the population of the country lives...
This is pretty much true. But NC juts way out into the ocean, and it's mountains are pretty far to the West. This creates higher-than-average distances between the mountains and the coast.

I can drive from VA Beach to Charlottesville in a little more than 3 hours. It is something like 5 hours from Wilmington to Mt. Airy, NC. It could take as long as 10 hours to get from NC's outer banks to a place like Boone or Black Mountain.

[ASUMountaineer]

I chose Appalachian because:
1. It had an exceptional educational reputation.
2. It had a great college atmosphere.
3. Excellent athletic history.
4. Awesome party scene.

and most importantly:
5: Location. You can't beat the High Country--mountains; cool air; awesome outdoors, from hiking to skiing; the all around best part of North Carolina.

[GreatAppSt]

To be honest I went to APP for Boones proximity to good trout fishing waters.

[pwbnd]

I went to NDSU because of it's close proximity to great skiing and surfing.

[Brian286]

Good question...one I asked myself every day I as I woke up at O'dark 30 for formation...6 days a week with classes on Saturday.

Several reasons:

Wanted to go into the military
Wanted to go to a smaller in state engineering school
Wanted to be successful and go through a program that wasn't easy and provided me with skills I could use throughout my career no matter what that career was going to be.

The school is simply meant to churn out successful graduates. From military generals, heads of state and nobel peace prize winners to corporate CEO's, doctors lawyers, engineers...whatever...for a small school it packs a mighty punch.

It's true we don't have the greatest football program...however, we have the greatest program to bring out the best in a person to face whatever life throws at you...

[Brian286]

UVa....rich, arrogant, elitist, and preppy. If your daddy is rich, you can buy your way in. Being from St. Chris in Richmond, I saw it about 10-15 times a year.

Excellent school if you can avoid the upper crust crap the surrounds rugby road et al. I know many kids who went there, including a couple who never belonged at UVa but were "ushered in". Many were expelled for cheating in the "how things work" seminar back in 2001-2002

UVa - hard to get there, easy to stay


Uhhh...if you're from St. Chris in Richmond, you're already rich, arrogant, elitist and preppy...Pot, meet Kettle.

I can understand though...being from JMU...

JMU...stands for Just Missed UVA...

[bandl]

Uhhh...if you're from St. Chris in Richmond, you're already rich, arrogant, elitist and preppy...Pot, meet Kettle.

I can understand though...being from JMU...

JMU...stands for Just Missed UVA...

Not for those who never wanted to go to UVA or who got into UVA and chose JMU instead. :cool: UVA is the most depressing school in the entire state.

[UCABEARS75]

Pretty simple, didn't want to go to University of Arkansas mainly because I enjoyed "small college" sports. (I grew up watching mostly Henderson and Ouachita games).

Chose UCA because I heard it had a ratio of women to men of something like 3:1. This was in 1971. The ratio of women to men is still high and they are, on the whole, "outstanding".

[wkukid]

1. distance from home (215 miles)...far enough to be away, close enough to go home

2. only 3 other people i graduated with came to wku

3. Bowling Green

4. Sports tradition (esp basketball)

[Delaware Ghostrider II]

I chose UD for a few reasons.....

1) In State tuition
2) The local ummmm entertainment
3) Great football tradition
4) Close to home
5) The girls
6) Great frat school and great frat parties



UD class of 97 Bach. in criminal justice

[claydus]

Inexpensive tutition for a student without having finanicial aid. One of the very few universities to offer a Information Technology along with a second discpline/minor and a specialization area.

[Ivytalk]

Not for those who never wanted to go to UVA or who got into UVA and chose JMU instead. :cool: UVA is the most depressing school in the entire state.

Clinically? ;)

[Killtoppers90]

I have many reasons why I went to Western KY:

- Both my parents attended and graduated from WKU
- I was born in Bowling Green, so it is HOME no matter where I live
- I had been attending WKU football games since I was 3
- WKU has the best looking campus I have ever been on and is improving day by day with the addition of Guthrie Tower, Diddle renovations and upcoming additions to LT Smith Stadium
- WKU has on of the best Communications/Broadcasting programs in the country
- Allowed me to play FB as a walk-on
- All the hot co-eds
- Was a legacy in my frat (Kappa Sig)
- The Great Spirit of WKU
- It wasn't EKU or Murray State!

[Lafayette71]

I had been offered full "need based" packages from Dartmouth, Harvard, Lafayette and Bucknell. I'm from PA, to be honest I was a little intinmidated by the proposition of going to Harvard. I never made it to Dartmouth for the visit. I thnk it was the campus at Lafayette and the schools reputation in engineering that sealed the deal for me.

[Pard4Life]

I had been offered full "need based" packages from Dartmouth, Harvard, Lafayette and Bucknell. I'm from PA, to be honest I was a little intinmidated by the proposition of going to Harvard. I never made it to Dartmouth for the visit. I thnk it was the campus at Lafayette and the schools reputation in engineering that sealed the deal for me.

The campus does seem to have that quixotic effect for some reason... and nice job stickin' it to the Ivies!

Ironically, you probably had a tougher time academically at Lafayette than you would have at Harvard... from what I've heard of about Harvard at least.

[McTailGator]

McNeese

Engineering School, band (good at that time), and I just grew up around McNeese Athletics.

As a kid my dad always took me to the games.

My older sister also played basketball for McNeese about 6 years before I arrived.

I just grew up a McCowboy...

There was really never any question where I would go.