Sorry, this is kinda directed to Senior's
 

I thought I would make tread about college plans. Since we are past that half way point of our last year. I Kinda wanted to know what plans people where having, maybe you need help and others can give you insite about why they like or dislike a school you might still be pondering over!

HAHA
 

Yea thought is might help if I started! Kinda forgot that! I'm planning on goign into University of Dayton. It is about an hour away from where I live. This being Columbus, Ohio. First has got me interested in robots and I'm excited to being taking classes based on MY intrests...and not the BS classes Highschool has you take! lol Hope you get some post form people. Once agian sorry this is kinda narrowed to Seniors...others can kinda look over and reply there advice or thoughts too! I'm just wondering where people are planning on going! Thanks!

~*Ashes*~

Seniors need some posts for ourselves you know ;)

As for me, I plan on studying business managment at the University of Western Ontario (http://www.uwo.ca). It's in London, Ontario - about 2 hours away from here.

I'm excited :)

I'm going to the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (I wouldn't have guessed ;)). I'm going to be an EE major and I can't wait to get out of High School so I can be in a school where most people actually care they are at school and not try to ruin classes because they dont want to be there, or they think its funny to interrupt class for no apparent reason. So right now, I'm filling out my FAFSA and hopefully get some money ;)

Well, I plan to go to Universal Technical Institute (UTI) and if I do very well in that class, Jaguar will pay my way! If not, I may have to work for Volkswagen...::shutters:: Either way, I'm safe for a job that will pay for my schooling...

I plan to be a Mechanic. :D

I'm amongst the four schools I've applied to that said I'm accepted, I'm planing on going to Northeastern Universoty or Georgia Institute of Technology. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and Clemson University said I'm accpeted there too. Not to sure yet...have to fill out those FIRST scholarships first. It basically come down to which school do I pay the least. They're both great schools and I like both NU and Ga Tech!

Purdue
 

I'll be heading off to Purdue late this year. The only school I applied for, the only school I got accepted to. :D

Schools im accepted at: Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan State, U of Kentucky

Where im going: who knows.

It's gonna go down to the wire, and i guess if i really need help, i could always poll ppl on chiefdelphi...lol. i wonder what my parents would think about that:yikes:

Ingenious solution...maybe I'll do that too. Ha....my parents would throw a fit. Actually I just have to decide between whether I want to go to Atlanta or Boston and which school do I pay the least amount of money!

i work on the no decision route... only applied to one school and got in

applied early decision to University of Florida, found out on Dec. 4th, and didn't even have to tell them I was going to go...

so now i just have to sit back, and spend money

Well, I was accepted to Penn State, Mansfield, WPI, and Drexel.... so far I have only received money offers from WPI.. and they offered $28,000+ a year!.... but I would rather stay closer to home.... just waiting and seeing. Polling Delphi sounds like an excellent idea to me too, it might make things simpliar. I have also brought into consideration of which team I would be working with while in college. :) Ohh.. yeah, I am majoring in Biomedical Engineering.... and possible minor in Poli Sci... and heading off to Med School afterwards.

I'm going to Western Michigan University,

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Minor: Business


I can't wait!

I got accepted to PSU: Erie...and waiting on replies from RIT and Pitt: Johnstown. (I probably could have gotten accepted to PSU main but it was too big...Erie is nice because it's small(er)...and I can stay there for 4 years or transfer to main after 2) RIT is nice...it's pricey and has an extra year...I dunno. IT'S ALL SO CONFUSING!

Yea getting ready for college is beru stressful! But I like to think baout hte rewards of getting out of Highschool. I had fun but 'm jsut ready to leave!

Re: Purdue
 

Same here man.... except for the fact that I'm not going to Purdue. :( Instead I'm headed to Michigan Tech. :) I can't wait.

I think we all can agree that FIRST is one of the best parts if not the best part of high school and definately the most rewarding.

i can definately second that

Been accepted to Rose-Hulman in Indiana, and the University of Missouri-Rolla. I'm waiting to hear from Harvey Mudd in Claremont, CA.

My college choice comes down to circumstances. If my friend and I are both able to go to RHIT, we will. If not, HMC is my first choice. But, of course, it depends on what kind of financial aid I get. I'm very happy that I don't have to go in-state. Nevada sucks for education.

Oh, yeah, and I plan to double major in EE and physics.

already accepted and decided on clarkson. new home on team 229 next year, all the way up in pottsdam.....so cold

Uh. I have no idea.

How about that?

I know that this thread is for seniors and I'm but a sophmore, but I already have a good idea of where I want to go... *drum roll* The Art Institute of Atlanta or The Art Institute Of North Carolina. Hopefully through schollarship (which Art Teach says I have a good chance for XD). If Not I'll go to the local Tech College and Transfer to a better Univeristy that's Local (Clemson most likley). But I'm hoping to go To AI of Atlanta.

I'd want to go for illustration, and computer graphics.

Later.

I am confused as ever about my college choices lol
ive applied to a few schools , University of Florida, University of Central Florida, GaTech, and Ofcourse MIT. I am most likely gonna wind up goin tgo UF, (Thats where i originally wanted to go) If i do go to UF i am gonna do a double major in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

I change my choices everyday so this is just like the choice for today

Cipher X

Purdue!!!
 

I applied to Purdue and have been accepted... i definately plan on going there for engineering....I dont feel like applying any where else...

thats exactly what i'm planning on doing :]

I'm having like one of the best Senior years anyone could possibly have. Since I took like all the hard classes the other 3 years I've got 3 periods of TV Production :D How fun is that?! Also I'm going on like a billion trips and get to miss so much school. In March there's the UCF Regional for FIRST... fun as usual! Then in April I'm going to Las Vegas for a week with my TV Production class (core group of us) for the National Association of Broadcasting Convention (NAB) and then the morning I get back from that I turn around and get on another plane to go out to Houston for Nats!! Then in May we're doing a huge Lip Sync production on a Monday and the following weekend is FSPA (Florida Schoolastic Press Association convention thing) that we're putting on in Orlando which is basically ONE HUGE PARTY!!! And then after that we do a video yearbook the week we graduate (big production) and then I'm FIN!!! YEA!!!

As far as colleges go I applied to both FSU and UCF and was accepted to both. Now I'm waiting to find out which Film School I get into to make up my mind of which school I'm going to, but most likely it's going to be UCF. I know, I know, I'm in FIRST and don't want to be an engineer? What's wrong with me? I love FIRST and building stuff and all but FILM is my first love!!

Ok now that I'm done writting my novel you can go back to your lives.

Trips?

Next weekend: Buckeye regional in Cleveland
Weekend after that: Pittsburgh
Week after that: Panama City(i think) for Spring break!!
At the end of that week im in Virginia for an IEA (horse)show with the Olentangy team
Weekend after that: West Michigan regional
Week after that: Texas baby! (*assuming we get to go* everyone pray for us!!)
Then, at the end of april are the IEA nationals, then may is boring and then im off to the bahamas

n e one else gon on fun trips?

as of now i am undecided and haven't even applied anywhere...all of the advisors on our team keep telling me "your going to purdue and your going to be an advisor next year" but i dont know i kinda wanna get outa this town.

I might join americorp and do a year of service to my fellow man or something like that...or just work for a year and save some money and goto a technical school of some sort....

To kyle and clark gilbert and anyone else going to purdue: Are you guys planning on trying to be advisors on 461 next year?


Is anyone going to a school where they plan on being a college advisor for a team?

Molly (kyle's girlfriend) tell's us that we have to be on the team... :)

Hey! FiRsT isn't just about Engineering anyway. What about the 3Ds Max award? That has little to do with engineering. Although it can, but it's not like autoCAD in the way of designing. And heck I don't want to be an Engineer either. I'm hoping for a career in Illustration and 3D surface modeling etc. I love to draw and I love computers! Oh yeah and I want to get a degree in programing too. Oh yeah and I like photography...

Okay I am officially rambling on now so I'll end it here.

so is that a yes??? :p

wooo yah molly make em do it!

What kind of question is that? Of course...the schools that I applied to have a team or provide mentors to a team (except for Clemson but I's not planning on going there)! Now if you remeber the "homework" Dean Kamen gave us....(drum rolls)....we are to expand first generate support and teams where there isn't any and spread the message and goals of FIRST. So we do need to do our homework.....although it is optional....but its the BEST HW assignment I've been given!

hey all well i am only a junior but at are school they have us jumping at the oppurnity to start applying from college so i have a pretty good idea wehre i watn to t go i eaither want to go to ucf and double major in enginneering and computer science or i am enlisting int he airforce and i am off to war i have been leading towards choice 2 because i mean after i serve they will pay for my college and i am ready to fight and possibley even die for my country

i am going to Grand Valley State University for Mechanical Engineering and a minor in music. Taking my horse and a new computer. College will be great fun. I am coming back home to look at the bot next year and such.

I'm a-goin' to the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. It's going to be crazy!

For the love of FIRST, come to Ball State University and help me out here!

< is pulling out her hair from the utter chaos and frenzied panic of starting a FIRST team...

:D

Amanda!

We have a member who is going to ballstate next year and wants to talk to you!

So find me when we are in chicago, and i will introduce yooos toos

Yeah, I got into USC and I might get into Caltech... can't make up my mind though... I'm gonna major in mech engineering, so I'm going to be helping to mentor teams in the So Cal area if I can.

Ive been accepted to Kettering, Rose Hulman, and Purdue. I plan on going to Kettering and double majoring in CS and CE. Kettering has a good co-op program and they even mentor a FIRST team.

come on man...its allll about purdue:)
461 and what not!
stay instate save some cash!

i am going to go to NHTI, a local community college in Concord, NH. i am not that wealthy and i have had a bad high school carrer, so i took what i could get.


Bad

I got accecpted to Wentworth Inistute of Technology, hopefully working on an MET degree. However I am stil waiting to see if I get accecpted to Clarkson, If I get accepted there then I'm gonna have to choose... Oh boy

I'm probably going to FIT (to join brian Jenks for those who knew him)

and how does one go about doing such a thing?

that is my job. his job is spinning around in a chair staring at the ceiling... <jk>:D

unfortunatly, I got the software 2 weeks late and had Never touched it before. needless to say I didn't finish.
woe is me

oh, well

RogerR,
I'm pretty sure that FIT works with team 386, Voltage if you wanted to be involved with FIRST in college, this would save you the trouble of starting a team there if they already work with one! If you did want to start a team for reasons beyond having one at FIT you can e-mail FIRST and request a sponsorship package to get things started!

I would never go to Purdue...40,000 kids in one University...you cant have any serious professor interaction w/o a "Take a number" box ;)

i would never goto purdue but thats just i am not a big fan of the town...
yet i have decided to stay here and attend ivy tech, go figure...

That and the fact i can be an advisor for my team next year!! GO NUTS!

But seriously though there are advantages to being in a school with 40,000 people like getting to meet alot of people and having such a variety of people, and everyone knows that TA's and Grad students do all the real work for profs anyways.

HOORAY!!
And next year is an even year...

Thanks for the info, pamela

we didn't want you to come here anyway dj!!! :p but since you won't be here, it just gives us an excuse for a road trip!!! :D

college
 

if u think purdue is bad...i might be going to OSU...its the 2nd largest campus in the world...(and national champs...go bucks) but thats not my 1st choice...i want to go to northeastern university and i did apply for the first scholarship..i plan on majoring in mechanical engineering...and for some odd reason i still havent heard from northeastern...eekkk:confused:

oh well

*subliminal messages*WPI*subliminal messages* :D

My first year on team 190 here, and I gotta tell ya.. it rocks. And the school, I love it. I suppose the only thing that I could ask for is more dicersity here (our FIRST team has a higher M/F ratio than the school, go us! -- 4:1 WPI, 3:2 Team 190!).

If you wanna be doing FIRST beyond HS, I have decided that WPI is the place to be, we are always doing something, year-round; we are definitely one of the most active teams in the country, doing over 50 competitions/demos a year. We already have on the agenda about 6-8 off-season competitions this year!

And yep, WPI loves to give out money.. not only in financial aid, but for doing things for the student body (just attend new student orientation and you'll understand what I mean, heheh). And based on what I hear from others, the BioMed option here is very good. One last thing - #9 in the nation for "dorms like palaces."

If you have any questions, at all, about WPI don't hesitate to ask me, I'm more than willing to help. :cool:

Huzza!
 

Someone mentioned FIT! I'm going there, too. Majoring in Aerospace Engineering. But, since I live withing 50 miles of campus (Rockledge, if anyone knows where that is :D ) I can save major bucks (like 8 grand I think) by not living and eating on campus.

As for staying with FIRST, I won't leave team 233 until I leave the state. Being Pink is GREAT!!!

Can't wait, only 7 days till UCF!!!

-Ash

yup, i'm going to FIT. I'm still wavering between Aerospace and Mechanical engineering

too many choices!

You are are lucky beyond your wildest dreams...

...They're changing the SAT I's

TRUTH
Ridding analogies (I only got one wrong in that section*moans*)

RUMORS THAT MIGHT HAVE SOME GROUNDS
1) Upping max points to 2400 (3 sections) (writing)

In short they're making the SAT's more subjective and less objective. (guess I can kiss that *hoping* 1600 now 2400 adios)

Now back to where you seniors are going to go after you depart from our wonderful abode of learning otherwise known as high school.

Speaking of SATs...
 

You know, I haven't heard anything about that, but if it turns out to be true, sorry for everyone who sill has to take it. Although, if walesjd (my good buddy and arm operator this year) could get a 1600, then the SATs really need to be made harder. :-P

-Ash

It looks as though I'm going to be at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology next year, along with my best friend! YAY!

YAY!!!
 

YAY!!!

I just got back from Europe on Saturday evening, and when I was opening all my mail that I had gotten while I was away, I got a big envelope from a university I applied to....I figured it was just acknowledgment that they had received my application....BUT...

IT WAS A LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE!!!

Lakehead University wants me (god knows why....lol).

Looks like I'm university bound for sure next year!!! YAY!

http://www.lakeheadu.ca <<< The university

Great! Everyone knows that more points means more fun!

2400-1600= 800! 800 more points!

Fortunately, in 2 months I'll be all done with my SAT's and ACT's.. Hopefully this time next year I'll be packing for RIT- long underwear and all.. ~*Brrrr*~

RIT
 

If/When you get to RIT, drop me a line. We don't wanna waste anytime getting folks involved in the team here, especially since a few of us will probably be slightly busy trying to get a Rochester regional in 2005 when the new RIT field house is done.... :yikes:

I got in!
 

I got my big packet of info in the mail the other day from Northeastern! now if i can only get that FIRST scholarship!
Boston here i come..:D

Michigan State
 

I suggest Michigan State University to any seniors looking at MI schools. I love it and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. It's a great place with a beautiful campus, awesome friendly people, great athletics, and great academics. Go to www.msu.edu if you want to check it out.

I am going to be attending the University of Texas - Austin next year, where i will be going into mechanical engineering

I just got accepted to Carnegie Mellon and will probably be going there to study EE, CS and maybe some Math and/or Spanish. Anyone else planning on going there? Anyone know if they have a team already?

I dont know if they have a robotics team in FIRST, but they do have the best robotics program in the country...

carnigie mellon works with (i think) team 1185...who are now our buddies (b/c of the pitt regional)

cooper union albert nerken school of engineering

Northeastern University

there is a chance I may be going to carnegie mellon because they're giving me some scholarship money, but i'm probably going to MIT. is anyone else going there? do they have a FIRST team?

MIT
 

Being from boston... ( albeit at school in Rochester... )

MIT does have a team
a quick search on www.usfirst.org
says:
Team 97

I suggest you visit the school if at all possible. The environment in Cambridge and Boston can be a rather large culture shock, especially with boston being such a 'college city'. I could probably name 10 colleges in a 20 minute (drive) radius, but the nightlife downtown is always a blast... and its a safe area of town.

I've been accepted to Rose Hulman, Smith, Tulane, and PURDUE!!! Yeah, considering I'm 5 mins away, it's very likely that I will be attending Purdue. In fact, I decided yesterday while at Midwest Regional I would be going there :)
I'll be majoring in Chem Engineering (assuming I stick w/ it for four years...) and I am definitely going to be on the team next year. Anyone w/ questions feel free to ask!! Purdue rocks and you won't be disappointed!!!

yay purdue!!! yay julie...good choice!!:p

College
 

I was accepted to Kettering U. in Michigan, University of Evansville in Indiana, and good ole Texas A&M U. Right now I'm waiting on the Robotics scholarship decision from Kettering to decide where I'm going. Hopefully find out by the end of the week! Anybody else going to Kettering or Texas A&M? Peace out homies.

-Luke


Patient:Doctor, is there a cure for what I have?
Doctor: I'm sorry son, there is no cure for senioritis.

well me..I'm going to Rutgers U next year. it's like a 5 min drive from my house..so it was easy for me to make the decision to commute. ..my main reason for wanting to commute is 'cuz I wanna be able to get to team meetings and mentor...hopefully for my team...or if not..any team that wants me! ;o) I'm so addicted to robotics and FIRST I just never ever ever wanna leave it behind.

let's see ....
basic training for the Air National Guard this summer
undergrad at UofM- Dearborn
major: Mechanical engineering
minor: business or a foriegn language (arabic or japanese)
grad school: UofM school of Dentistry

Cornell's School of Engineering anyone? I hope I'm not the only one :( I know they have a decent FIRST team that I hope to be a part of next year (team 639).

yeah this was just sort of random??? where did you hear all of this?? it's sort of cool, but ... yeah i'm not sure if i believe it or not

I applied to RIT and got in, but they didn't offer enough scholarship money to make me be able to actually attend the college. So now I am debating over UNH and if accepted Mcgill University all the way up in Montreal!

Sorry I left you all in the dark... not that you cared anyways but Clarkson didnt accept me. So I'm going to Wentworth for sure. Not gonna start a team, I'm just gonna walk down the street to help out with Team 125 out of Northeastern, BOSTON HERE I COME!!!

If I go to UNH I plan on starting a team and I'm going to need lots of help.
If any of you out there are going there or want to share some advice, I'd love it.
This is only my third year on the team and already I start shuddering thinking that soon I will no longer be part of my loving FIRST family...
"MOMMMMMMY!" hehehe I'm gonna miss you Mommy, but don't worry, I'll visit! :)

I'm going to Grand Valley State University. Thats all I know. I have absolutely no clue what I'm going to major in. Sometimes I enjoy english, sometimes math, sometimes physics, sometimes anything else....I really have absolutely no idea.

I didn't get into Mcgill... doesn't really surprise me either
So I'm going to UNH, woo woo....
At least I can visit my mom and Trisha...
Although, Trisha lives near the beach... nice!

This is definately not a rumor. It was a cover story in USNews a few months back... it's scheduled for March of 2005. The main changes is now there's going to be a writing section (you should have been wondering why they've had a writing section on the PSATs for a few years now, but not on the regular SATs). Apparently, for this section, you'll now have to write an essay. Talk about a pain in the.... A 2-second search on the collegeboard website came up with this link: http://www.collegeboard.com/about/newsat/satfaqs.html

Check it out, it has all the info.

I'm heading to Michigan State University next fall. I was accepted into the James Madison College program up there (Public Affairs/Politics). I'm thinking of majoring in International Relations.
I'm one of the few kids on my team who isn't doing computers or mech. engineering (and one of two going to MSU...the rest are going to U-M Ann Arbor).