Hey guys, so its alway been a dream of mine to go to school abroad in Europe and then get PR (the country im interested has a set up program where if you are accepted into uni and graduate with good grades you qualify for it as in international student) but my parents kinda shoe-horned me into not applying and I was scared to go against them + was ill-prepared since I missed the admissions deadline for this coming fall. I have then money to survive on my own until Im admitted there and pay for the entirety of my education and housing there (they gave me the initial money and I got really lucky on the stock market on an account in my name and have 60k USD). The thing is though, I got into UCSD but they wouldnt allow me to defer my enrollment for year + applying to other unis breaks the agreement. If you were me, would you disobey your parents though? Im lowkey scared out of my mind to do this but even though UCSD is a top ranked school, I just feel like this is NOT what I want out of my life. The advice everyone would tell me is to go, but its just not what I want. Its an awesome oppurotunity but I dont want to take it and tbh it seems completely reversible considering I can just apply next year again and prob get into at least UCSC which I'd be fine with. I also messed up my majors this year and applied for stuff I dont want to do anymore, but the majors I want are all impacted for the most part (econ + cs + business). The reason why I did not apply to these majors was my parents hired this weird college counselor who advised me to apply to worse majors like ethnic studies that i did not want to do to boost my admissions chances, but apparently never checked the transfer policies that clearly state I cant switch in or that the acceptance rate to transfer in is extremely low. UCSD is letting me switch into econ though, but its just not what I want out of life as I said earlier and then my other options all got screwed over. I feel horrible denying it because I already said I would go and my mother is so happy about it.
I could just apply for masters, but I want to be able to fall in love in college and make life long connections but I cant do that in the country I dont want to live in in the future and will never see any of them again including any potential partner... it wouldnt be fair to them and thats one of the main driving me to withdraw. What do I do?
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