re: Besides where you went, what school would you have gone to?

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I would have liked a year at Pepperdine

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I had a scholarship offer from Pepperdine but also one from Emory and decided to stay closer to my high school sweetheart ( who I ended up divorcing a few years later).

I went to LSU.

Assuming money and entrance requirements were not a factor I wish I had gone to the most prestigious school west of the Mississippi...Stanford. and then accept an entry level job in Silicon Valley making like $200k.

I lucked out big time at LSU w profs. I wouldn't trade my experience there for Ivy League or any other school.

And our class at Tulane Law was one in a million. Not so much the faculty, but my classmates were seriously insane. Most bizarre group of people ever assembled. Our class got the school permabanned from numerous establishments, including for stealing Mr Rogers's shoes from a museum display. We had strippers, strip club owners, a crazy old man who was banned from graduation for terroristic threats, a fencing cross-dresser, a limo driver, inveterate gamblers (Harrah's opened our second year)--a friend of mine hocked his dachshund for gambling money, and this is just a random sampling (excluding summer in Greek isles). We had school sponsored parties and "bar reviews" every week. I honestly don't know how I survived much less became an attorney. When i moved to Atlanta and met other young lawyers and law students, they all seemed like stiffs.

USC, NYU or Juilliard (assuming this is a dream world and I could get in)

Went to LSU

Southern Law school

Had academic scholarship to anywhere I wanted to go as I had 4.0 GPA and 32 ACT. Despite looking on paper like a fricking nerd, I wasn’t.

I was gonna go to Ole Miss and live the frat life, but I was pretty decent at baseball. I had baseball offers at every local Juco and most smaller schools (NAIA and DII schools mostly). Ended up getting a last-minute offer at Middle Tennessee which was perfect for me. D1 athletic program that wasn’t pretentious and only an hour and 20 from my hometown. So I reneged on Ole Miss and went for it.

Worked out perfectly for me and honestly I wouldn’t change it for a second.

So looking back, not to be Corey Smith, but if I could do it again, I’d do it the same. Not one regret, I wouldn’t change a thing, baseball or not. I ended up being a weekend starter as a pitcher and met my wife there, along with unbreakable bonds with my best friends who will always be my boys.

So, I’d go to MTSU no matter what.

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would now choose Hillsdale for undergrad

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Politically wise, good choice. All things considered, no. My Grandma lives in Hillsdale, my Father is from the area. I've been there many times, pretty boring place. Very small private school in a rural town.

Went to W&L and would do it again. Otherwise, would have gone to UVA despite having to spend 4 years avoiding my future wife lest she meet me in my, shall we say, less mature stage.

Went to WVU. Loved it, wouldn't change it.

For the sake of this thread, if I didn't go to WVU, I would have probably gone to USCe, JMU or Auburn.

ETA: Georgia would have also been a contender. Loved Athens when I visited there a couple summers ago.