I went to Cornell, you ever heard of it?

Quick update on my life…

 

I would almost certainly update my blog more frequently if I felt like people were actually reading it... but I don’t understand why on earth someone would read it because I never update it.

Anyway, I was admitted into a few grad schools for next fall and figured I’d let the blogging community know about it. I was accepted to Master’s programs at UCLA, Michigan, Cornell, and even here at BYU. Sadly, Portland State, my fallback school that I would have considered (maybe) had I been rejected from everywhere else was the only school that denied me. I was planning on applying to Utah with a similar purpose, but didn’t end up needing to after finding out I had been accepted to other schools.

When it came down to making a decision, I never really considered Michigan. After a visit to UCLA, it was clear that their program just wasn’t what I was looking for. Cornell offered a nice scholarship but i'd still end up paying about 15,000 a semester. Following some deliberation, I decided to stay here at BYU and begin the MPA program in the Marriott School.  Although I hesitated to stay here “in the harbor”, I couldn’t help feeling that this particular program was for me.

I’m confident that I would have done fine in any of the previously mentioned programs, and that realization helped me clearly see that it’s not about the program the person is in… it’s about the person in the program (cliché I know!) Although I may be giving up my opportunity of marrying into old money at Cornell, I still haven’t doubted for a second that I made the right decision.