Dear Ms. arding:
On behalf of UCLA, I'm extending an official offer of admission to the Graduate Division. You have been singled out from a pool of exceptionally qualified and talented applicants in a rigorous and highly competitive process. Your selection recognizes your academic accomplishments and potential for advanced scholarship. Let me add my personal congratulations to those of your family and friends.
By choosing UCLA, you will choose to study at a world-class public research university with an internationally distinguished faculty, professors whose teaching and mentorship will help you prepare to join the next generation of America's academic leaders. Your department staff and the Graduate Student Association's fall orientation will introduce you to the campus's wide array of social and cultural resources so that you will feel at home here as quickly as possible.
Please accept my best wishes for success in your graduate studies. I look forward to your joining us.
Sincerely,
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
Vice Chancellor Graduate Studies
UCLA:
Pros
- Aewesome school
- in class classes
- cultural center of the world
- Huge Name
- Better starting salary
- easier time finding a job
- easier to get promotions
Cons
- No friends
- No family
- No Corey
- I want to have intern and experience in the bay area more
- Would still be fully financially dependent on parents because I wouldn't be able to work with UCLA's required internship in order to sustain myself
- LA sucks, I hate LA so much I could piss on it.
- LA is way too expensive ever.
- Would not be able to leave campus ever and where would I go anyway?
- Big Scary beyond place that is unfamiliar and I fear change, and would prolly have a nervous breakdown because of it and have no one around to pull me out of it
San Jose State
Pros
- in the bay area where I rather spend the rest of my life and career
- Friends
- Family
- economic independence
- set career roots here
- less expensive
- Boyfriend and in general better men anyway
Cons
- hybrid courses
- Not as good of a school
- Supposedly has some sort of stigma according to Mr. Michael mills librarian who went there
- Harder time finding a job
Pros and Cons: UCLA is 7/9, San Jose State is 7/4
San Jose still wins, and my decision stands
So why do I still have this gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach?