{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "what was your criteria for the colleges you wanted to go to? Did you get accepted into all the ones you applied to?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/143566989293/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: what was your criteria for the colleges you wanted to go to? Did you get accepted into all the ones you applied to?</div>\n<p>Pre\u0283tigious, for really smart kids. Going in as a freshman I expected to do more sciencey stuff than I ended up, so I focused on Research I universities and overlooked liberal arts colleges - I probably would\u2019ve done great at Reed, for example.<br/></p><p>On the other hand in LA I remember a girl saying that she - a Colby grad - and I were similar because we both went to colleges for smart kids and I remember thinking \u201cActually, the commonality there is <i>rich kids</i>, and that you don\u2019t notice that distinction kind of IS that distinction.\u201c<br/></p><p>And no.<br/></p>"}