Off Topic but worth a laugh. I wonder how many times this has happened with people applying to Northeastern/Northwestern...

[Eurocat]

A student was excited to move to Florida for college. Then she realized she'd applied to Miami University — in Ohio.

Valerie Do was hoping to go to college in sunny Florida, but she'd accidentally applied to Miami University in Ohio. She has no regrets.

www.yahoo.com

 

[SadCat]

I had intended to attend university in Boston throughout my childhood and only made school visits there…so nobody was more surprised than I was to end up in Evanston.

It wasn’t on my bingo card.

 

[Hungry Jack]

Valerie Doh!

 

[phatcat]

Miami U is a good school

 

[wildcat1066]

I can never remember. Is Miami of Ohio the Harvard of Ohio? Or is Harvard the Miami of Ohio of Massachusetts? Hard to tell from my experience since I majored in Rugby and Racquetball at Miami. Miami '73

 

[EvanstonCat]

A student was excited to move to Florida for college. Then she realized she'd applied to Miami University — in Ohio.

Valerie Do was hoping to go to college in sunny Florida, but she'd accidentally applied to Miami University in Ohio. She has no regrets.

www.yahoo.com

What in the world did she write in the essay about what attracted to her Miami and how did that get her past admissions?

I assume there was no interview.

 

[Frabjous]

That’s how I wound up at Absorbine Junior College.