i have now officially applied for UCLA and Berkeley

[Ava]

wish me luck.. now i'm freaking out even more

[redwitch]

1. You'll be able to take your pick Ava.

Series. It is nervewracking though. :hug:

[Ava]

8. thanks redwitch

it is extremely nervewracking x(

[AlCzervik]

2. Good luck!

Berkeley, i really hope my own daughter wants to go there.

[Ava]

9. thanks

:hi:

[skygazer]

3. They'd both be lucky to get you

But choose Berkeley - great school and the Bay Area is so much nicer than L.A. And it's where all the best DU'ers live. :P

[Ava]

10. thanks.. both schools are great

UCLA has a great film program, but it doesn't start until jr year and only has an 8% acceptance rate :scared:

[CreekDog]

4. As a Bay Area native, I cannot say enough good things about

UCLA. :hide:

[Ava]

11. ha!

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

5. Good luck!

:hi:

[Ava]

12. thanks XemaSab

:hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Northern California is far nicer than Southern.

Just pay attention to my bitching and moaning threads (more than one just today!)

Congratulations and may you find your greatest good!

[Ava]

13. lol, well ucla has a great film program

and LA is a great place to be if you want to get into the "biz"

thanks :hi:

[DBoon]

20. I've heard its one of the top 3 in the country

UCLA, USC and NYU are supposed to be the best film schools on the country

[Ava]

21. UCLA is the number one undergrad program in the country

according to most lists.. i'm applying to NYU too. UT Austin also has a great film program and i'll be applying there as well. hopefully i'll get into one of them :hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

47. I've missed that you want to get into film.

UCLA is a great campus and a good school. You'll be unable to avoid running into film people in LA!

[DBoon]

17. So Cal has nicer weather than NorCal

plus our Villaragosa can beat up their Newsom any day!

[XemaSab]

36. I have lived in LA, Santa Barbara, Yosemite, Oakland, Mill Valley, Sacramento, Arcata, and Redding

The East Bay has the best weather on the planet.

[DBoon]

46. ok you win

damper, milder than socal, but not fog-bound like SF

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. OMG!

come to CA, will definitely come to meet you! :applause:

[Ava]

14. so i take it you'd offer to help me move in

because i'd totally take advantage of that :rofl: ;)

[Whoa_Nelly]

29. will be there

anything to move you up in the world, babycakes!

http://mistletoemakeover.com/?9c70be56c9ffca46ad5fd07c366230db

[Ava]

31. lol, thanks

i'll let you know if i'm able to take you up on the offer ;)

[Ellen Forradalom]

15. you're a shoe-in

Here's a pad of paper and a pencil. Write your own ticket.

[Ava]

16. i'm certainly not a shoe-in

both schools are competitive, and my math score on the sat was just about average. my verbal score was really high, but my math brought down my composite. i'm worried that'll hurt me, and i'm not sure how much my extracurriculars will help me x( i'm so nervous about it all

[Ellen Forradalom]

32. Easy for me to say relax

I'm in my forties and am not particularly ambitious.

But I think you stand an excellent chance. And even if those two schools don't pan out, you'll do great elsewhere. You can hardly help it.

[Ava]

35. thanks Ellen Forradalom

:hug:

[DBoon]

18. Welcome to California

whichever you pick, be sure to meet up with the local DU folks

[Ava]

19. well if either will have me!

:P :hi:

[graywarrior]

22. What about Harvard?

[Ava]

23. still applying there

almost have my application done. i've got some great letters of recommendation lined up too. harvard is a stretch though, considering that most people that apply there have insanely high SAT scores. i don't think my extracurriculars will pull much weight there, but i don't know. :shrug:

[graywarrior]

24. Bet your xtracurrics do.

They love that stuff at Harvard.

[Ava]

25. yeah, but lots of folks applying to harvard have great extracurriculars

like feeding starving kids in africa.. damn those kids!

:hide: of course i'm kidding about the kids ;)

[graywarrior]

26. I guess it depends on how bad you want it

You'd be a great addition to any college you want to attend. (But good thing they don't ask my opinion....hahahahaha)

[Ava]

27. lol, well thanks

i told my stepdad tonight that i'm afraid i'm going to get rejected from all my school and "live in a van down by the river" :rofl: :P

[graywarrior]

28. Living in a van down by the river is a humble yet nobel career.

:rofl:

[Ava]

34. "humble yet noble"

is that what they're calling it these days? :P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. My dear Ava!

Oh, good luck, sweetie!

It would be fantastic to have you here in CA!

UCLA is just a stone's throw from my little town!

And Berkeley is justly famous...

You will love California!

Lots and lots of progressive young men...;-)


:hug:

[Ava]

33. thanks CaliforniaPeggy

:pals:

[puerco-bellies]

37. You're a lead pipe chinch Ava!!

Both are great choices. Which way are you leaning?

[Ava]

38. it really depends if i get accepted to either

i'm planning and visiting the universities i get accepted to.. that way i can see which has an atmosphere that i dig the most :hi:

[Flaxbee]

39. I went to UCLA for grad school ...

I loved the area -- I never lived on campus, so I don't know what life might be like for freshmen, but there are a lot of apartments within walking / bus distance and Westwood /Santa Monica / Brentwood etc. areas can be a lot of fun.

Good luck! Either school will be lucky to have you!

[Ava]

40. awesome!

and thanks :hi:

[cemaphonic]

41. Hey, my brother is at UCLA

finishing a math PHD.

LA is an interesting city, with an amazing amount of cultural diversity. More Iranians live there than any city except Tehran, and they are not the only ones like that.

Good luck!

[HEyHEY]

43. I was gonna say hook him up with Ava, but if he's getting a Math PHD, he's prolly a total dork

I'm kidding, but I couldn't resist.

[cemaphonic]

44. Heh, he actually knows when to turn off the math geekery and is pretty cool.

But he's probably a bit old for her, and has a girlfriend. And wants to get out of LA as soon as he's done in the spring. Possibly to Vancouver, in fact, which I would be thrilled with, since I'm in Seattle.

[HEyHEY]

45. ah! I was just there last weekend...

:-)

[HEyHEY]

42. Just smoke a doobie, ya fucking hippie!

[Ava]

49. i'm a southern goody two shoes

i'll be a fish out of water in cali :rofl:

[nickgutierrez]

48. Good luck!

You'll do fine, you're smart. :)

[Ava]

50. thanks

:hi:

[trof]

51. commie

;-)

[Ava]

52. i prefer comrade if you don't mind

:P

[mnhtnbb]

53. Best of luck! from BS, MPH UCLA.

[Ava]

54. thanks!

:hi:

[RushIsRot]

55. Your success couldn't be more assured or more deserved!

[Ava]

56. i don't know about that

but thank you :hug: