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Krallum
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My soft safety school was NCSU. My hard safety school was A&T.

A&T send me shit asking if I was going to attend halfway through my sophmore year, even after I sent the decline shit and deleted my page on their application shit. I wanted to be like "I only applied for your shit because my collage advisor told me to and she only told me too because I'm black. I guarantee you she didn't tell the white kids to apply there"

This has been a Krallum query.

5/6/2013 4:35:16 PM

BigMan157
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here

Duke didn't give me a scholarship, so :/

5/6/2013 4:35:54 PM

Krallum
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Yeah the school I wanted to go to was so fucking expensive. Mi familia too pobre. I think it would've been cool as shit to just straight up start living in a totally different state with no car and no friends at 17 tho.

I didn't apply to duke because I'm retarded and if they accidentally let me in I'd bring down the prestige.

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5/6/2013 4:38:00 PM

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Always knew i wanted to go to State. Also applied/accepted to Elon and Guilford for football, but decided against them.

5/6/2013 4:39:07 PM

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Florida State

5/6/2013 4:39:20 PM

EMCE
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Harvard. I decided I wanted to be closer to home.

5/6/2013 4:39:54 PM

ncstatetke
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UNC-C and Virginia Tech

5/6/2013 4:42:09 PM

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App State. I was gonna go too, even after getting into NCSU, but decided to just go to NCSU at the last minute. I guess it all worked out in the end.

5/6/2013 4:43:09 PM

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A&T

5/6/2013 4:43:56 PM

Krallum
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What if you had invented facebook at appstate?

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5/6/2013 4:44:18 PM

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unc

5/6/2013 4:45:14 PM

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I only applied to NC State because I knew I would get in. My parents made me apply to Clemson just to at least have one other school so I guess Clemson was my safety school

[Edited on May 6, 2013 at 4:45 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2013 4:45:26 PM

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COLLAGE

ADVISOR"


I guess Western lol. State rejected me out of high school and App waited until I was in orientation at ECU to tell me. Ended up doing a semester at ECU, then a semester and summer session as a lifelong student at NCSU and got in. Still graduated in 3.5 years leaving ECU was the best decision I ever made.

5/6/2013 4:46:12 PM

Krallum
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^^No no no no no. Thats not how safety school works

^I went to enginearin school spellin can suck a dick

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5/6/2013 4:46:13 PM

dyne
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UNC-C and ECU. Didn't even apply to anywhere out of state.

5/6/2013 4:46:48 PM

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state was the only school i applied to, so i guess gtcc was my safety

5/6/2013 4:46:59 PM

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Me too! Turned down a full ride. I wish I could find the letter I wrote to them saying thanks but I'm going to State.

I only applied to State and UNC

5/6/2013 4:49:54 PM

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"No no no no no. Thats not how safety school works"


Yeah I guess it's not as traditional. I was 99.99999% sure I was getting into State no problem, but my parents convinced me to apply to one other school "just in case" I didn't get in to State. So, to me it was my backup or safety at least.

5/6/2013 4:51:20 PM

Krallum
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The way I always saw it was, you applied for somewhere that you're confident you'll get in (safety school) an iffy or 2 and then an outlandish one just for the fuck it. It doesn't matter which one you actually want to go to because the truth is you don't really have any concept of what college is like or what the actual differences will be when you're a retard high schooler and more importantly you'd probably do just fine at any of them unless you are a whiny cunt.

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5/6/2013 4:56:48 PM

willembahh
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ECU


applied there and here, got in both places, chose state.

5/6/2013 5:02:40 PM

CalledToArms
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^^gotcha. Well even though I knew I would get in at State, I didn't consider it my safety school. I wanted engineering and I wanted in-state (from a cost perspective) so it just made sense. I guess I didn't really have a safety school then.

5/6/2013 5:16:00 PM

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"Yeah I guess it's not as traditional. I was 99.99999% sure I was getting into State no problem, but my parents convinced me to apply to one other school "just in case" I didn't get in to State. So, to me it was my backup or safety at least."

Exact same situation, exact same school...

5/6/2013 5:23:52 PM

Mtan Man214
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I only applied at NCSU and West Point. I knew even fully qualified I had a snowball's chance in hell of going to an Academy and I always wanted to go to state, just thought I'd try on the off chance I got in.

5/6/2013 5:28:40 PM

dweedle
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early-admission accepted to NC State

didn't get into Duke

5/6/2013 5:48:52 PM

Krallum
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early admission is for women

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5/6/2013 5:49:29 PM

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NCSU. I only applied to MIT and NCSU, which was kind of silly in retrospect. Got a good edumacation here, though.

5/6/2013 5:52:04 PM

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state was my first choice. i also was planning on applying to wilmington but i was accepted to state in december before i ever applied to wilmington.

so i guess wilmington would have been safety...i never got around to applying there though because i went the early admission route at state.

[Edited on May 6, 2013 at 5:59 PM. Reason : d]

5/6/2013 5:57:20 PM

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Only applied state and vt. I culled about 4 schools off my list before applying because fuck writing essays.

Had more money from vt, but decided I'd rather state give me money than have to get a job at tech.

5/6/2013 6:04:39 PM

mizzo
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ECU and UNCW

5/6/2013 6:05:34 PM

NeuseRvrRat
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only applied to NCSU

5/6/2013 6:05:55 PM

steviewonder
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Applied to NCSU, VT and Penn St. Had UNCC as a safety school

5/6/2013 6:07:02 PM

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Applied to 2, and got in to 2. Didn't have a safety school.

5/6/2013 6:07:08 PM

NeuseRvrRat
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how tarded do you have to be to get denied by NCSU?

5/6/2013 6:08:16 PM

DoeoJ
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just applied to state.

got halfway through the RIT app, but then decided it was too cold there.

5/6/2013 6:13:00 PM

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I dunno, here? Is it a safety school if you voluntarily attend?

Only applied to NCSU and GT. Was guaranteed to get accepted here, was pretty sure I'd get into GT. Got into both, chose NCSU for finances.

5/6/2013 6:15:07 PM

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Appalachian, but I forgot to send them my SAT scores with my application

And they were the only other school I applied to.

[Edited on May 6, 2013 at 6:19 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2013 6:18:35 PM

Snewf
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NCSU
I've since attended 4 schools and earned 2 degrees

I wasn't rejected from a school until last year when UT Austin turned me down for their PhD program at the school of Radio, Television and Film

5/6/2013 9:39:34 PM

Jrb599
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app state

5/6/2013 9:59:44 PM

Bweez
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unc-w and unc

5/6/2013 10:03:59 PM

Meg
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Clemson, Appalachian



But it's not like I was worried about not getting in to NCSU

5/6/2013 10:15:41 PM

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I guess Georgia Tech, although you could easily have subbed Johns Hopkins, BU, or W&L for them. I just considered GT the safest given how easy their app process was

Nothing like turning down all of them when I got my appointment to the Naval Academy

5/6/2013 10:19:34 PM

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" I only applied to NC State because I knew I would get in. My parents made me apply to Clemson just to at least have one other school so I guess Clemson was my safety school"


Haha. My exact same scenario.

5/6/2013 10:26:08 PM

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I can't remember if I applied anywhere else. Wanting to be a vet at the time I may have only applied to State being the only accredited vet school in the state. I didn't stick to animal science, but I did end up working at a vet clinic for a little while between undergrad and grad school.

5/6/2013 10:30:29 PM

skyfallen
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Virginia Tech....it was the only in-state school I applied to....

5/6/2013 11:06:42 PM

Kickstand
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I only applied to NCSU and got in. I halfway filled out an application for UNC but was too lazy to write the essays.

5/6/2013 11:14:06 PM

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Western Carolina, I honestly have no idea why I did that. I'm thinking I wasn't even sure I wanted to go to college back then.

5/6/2013 11:44:53 PM

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the streets.....

off Kaplan Drive

5/6/2013 11:48:47 PM

crazy_carl
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UNC W

5/6/2013 11:54:18 PM

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"My top schools where I want to apply to are Oxford and the Sorbonne. My safety's Harvard."


[Edited on May 7, 2013 at 12:02 AM. Reason : but in reality, applied to VT, NCSU and MIT. got into VT and NCSU. VT didn't giveme enuf$$$]

[Edited on May 7, 2013 at 12:02 AM. Reason : slow-ass image loading]

5/6/2013 11:59:34 PM

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when I graduated from NC State w/ a master's in mathematics, I applied to the Ph.D. programs at (iirc)

Illinois, Texas, Cornell, Maryland, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Wisconsin and 3 other schools of similar caliber

and they all rejected me...that was awesome and wonderful

so I took a year off, obtained some original research results, and the next year was admitted to pretty damned good school (about on level with the lower of the above).

so I'm glad I didn't have a safety school, because then I'd be getting a doctorate from some piss-mediocre institution, which would make my career prospects mighty shitty right now.


[Edited on May 7, 2013 at 12:12 AM. Reason : not that they aren't anyway]

5/7/2013 12:05:54 AM

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