Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
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
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BigMan157 no u 103356 Posts user info edit post |
here
Duke didn't give me a scholarship, so :/ 5/6/2013 4:35:54 PM
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Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
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.
I'm Krallum and I approved this message./] 5/6/2013 4:38:00 PM
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Smath74 All American 93281 Posts user info edit post |
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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TKE-Teg All American 43429 Posts user info edit post |
Florida State  5/6/2013 4:39:20 PM
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EMCE balls deep 89885 Posts user info edit post |
Harvard. I decided I wanted to be closer to home. 5/6/2013 4:39:54 PM
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ncstatetke All American 41128 Posts user info edit post |
UNC-C and Virginia Tech 5/6/2013 4:42:09 PM
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OopsPowSrprs All American 8383 Posts user info edit post |
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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Byrn Stuff backpacker 19058 Posts user info edit post |
A&T 5/6/2013 4:43:56 PM
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Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
What if you had invented facebook at appstate?
I'm Krallum and I approved this message. 5/6/2013 4:44:18 PM
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Førte All American 23525 Posts user info edit post |
unc  5/6/2013 4:45:14 PM
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CalledToArms All American 22025 Posts user info edit post |
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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ncsuallday Sink the Flagship 9818 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "MY
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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
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Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
^^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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dyne All American 7323 Posts user info edit post |
UNC-C and ECU. Didn't even apply to anywhere out of state. 5/6/2013 4:46:48 PM
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ndmetcal All American 9012 Posts user info edit post |
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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scotieb24 Commish 11094 Posts user info edit post |
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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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CalledToArms All American 22025 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "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
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Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
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.
I'm Krallum and I approved this message. 5/6/2013 4:56:48 PM
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willembahh All American 2378 Posts user info edit post |
ECU
applied there and here, got in both places, chose state. 5/6/2013 5:02:40 PM
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CalledToArms All American 22025 Posts user info edit post |
^^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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slaptit All American 2991 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "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
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Mtan Man214 All American 2638 Posts user info edit post |
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
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dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
early-admission accepted to NC State
didn't get into Duke 5/6/2013 5:48:52 PM
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Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
early admission is for women
I'm Krallum and I approved this message. 5/6/2013 5:49:29 PM
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spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
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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dmspack oh we back 25904 Posts user info edit post |
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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justinh524 Sprots Talk Mod 28491 Posts user info edit post |
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
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mizzo All American 3541 Posts user info edit post |
ECU and UNCW 5/6/2013 6:05:34 PM
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NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35386 Posts user info edit post |
only applied to NCSU 5/6/2013 6:05:55 PM
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steviewonder All American 6194 Posts user info edit post |
Applied to NCSU, VT and Penn St. Had UNCC as a safety school 5/6/2013 6:07:02 PM
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MaximaDrvr
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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
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NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35386 Posts user info edit post |
how tarded do you have to be to get denied by NCSU? 5/6/2013 6:08:16 PM
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DoeoJ has 7062 Posts user info edit post |
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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tl All American 8430 Posts user info edit post |
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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elkaybie All American 39626 Posts user info edit post |
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
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Snewf All American 63542 Posts user info edit post |
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
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Jrb599 All American 8846 Posts user info edit post |
app state 5/6/2013 9:59:44 PM
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Bweez All American 10849 Posts user info edit post |
unc-w and unc 5/6/2013 10:03:59 PM
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Meg All American 6759 Posts user info edit post |
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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goalielax All American 11252 Posts user info edit post |
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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hey now Indianapolis Jones 14979 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | " 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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Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
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
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skyfallen All American 944 Posts user info edit post |
Virginia Tech....it was the only in-state school I applied to.... 5/6/2013 11:06:42 PM
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Kickstand All American 11763 Posts user info edit post |
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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Chief All American 3402 Posts user info edit post |
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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Str8BacardiL ************ 41759 Posts user info edit post |
the streets.....
off Kaplan Drive 5/6/2013 11:48:47 PM
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crazy_carl All American 4073 Posts user info edit post |
UNC W 5/6/2013 11:54:18 PM
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sarijoul All American 14208 Posts user info edit post |

Quote : | "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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JeffreyBSG All American 10165 Posts user info edit post |
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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