You are not a carbon copy of your friends and your college list should not be a copy, either!
Your friend has their academic stats and strengths — and you have your own. Your cousin loved their extracurriculars and you enjoy completely different activities. Your father’s co–worker’s son is a country campus mouse and you are a city campus mouse. All these comparisons to say that you CANNOT and SHOULD NOT apply to certain colleges just because other people do.
How would you react to a parent exclaiming, “My daughter wants to change her college choice based on what her friends think of it!”
1) Who cares what her friends think? They have only 17 years’ experience in the world as she does and don’t know any more about anything than she does. But one thing she does know more than they do is about herself.
2) No matter her choice, those “friends” will be dispersed throughout the country. They won’t be holding her hands to all her classes and—
3) They won’t be paying her bills. How lucky for her that best fit and less debt coincide!
4) She doesn’t have to wait until she’s immersed her new life as a college freshman to mute and unfriend those critics; no time like the present!
5) Only SHE can live her life. She should not select a school based on what others think.
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