Where do you hope you wind up?

[lauras]

If you are applying all over the country, just mark the region of your first choice.

[UnlikelyGrad]

I chose Western US because I like the west and because my family (and my in-laws) live there. But in retrospect, maybe I should have chosen the Eastern US because the two highest-ranked schools I'm applying to are east of the Mississippi...

[deianira]

It's the opposite for me: I really wish I could stay on the west coast, but I'm hoping to get accepted on the east coast because I will need my parents' help with childcare.

[Astaroth]

My choice would have been Western US, but I've already been rejected from there, so my next favourite is UT, hence I voted South.

[gadhelyn]

Eastern US, but as long as it's anywhere but here.

[ohheygradschool]

I said Eastern, but I'd be quite happy at either of the Midwestern schools I applied to.

[storiaitaliana]

I would prefer to stay in California, but the number one place for my field is in the east. I realized this weekend that there was one place I could have applied on the west coast, but it's too late now.

[MAN]

I grew up in the Midwest and currently live in the East (Southeast). I'm hoping to go out west. The East coast is overrated.

[fenderpete]

East coast is ideal to be near DC and NYC, but at this stage I'm not really thinking about turning down Stanford due to its non-beltway location :mrgreen:

[saritapie]

There a lot of sacrifices I am willing to make to get a PhD: I'll sink myself nose-deep in reading, grade crappy undergrad papers, sleep rarely, make very little money, survive on oatmeal and noodles, go into debt, delay marriage and babies, and hang a dissertation over the remainder of my twenties as though it were a giant anvil, all without much expectation of being able to easily find a good job when it's over... but I am not willing to live east of the Rocky Mountains for any significant chunk of my life, for anything. Doing my master's in the Rocky Mountains has endowed me with a more profound understanding of the importance of sunshine and mild temperatures for my physical and mental health. Also, my family is in California, and staying within an easy (and relatively cheap) airplane ride or decent interstate drive's reach of them is a pretty big deal to me. Going home for the holidays is currently not possible without either (a) driving over a snowy mountain pass, or ( spending $600. (Summer isn't much better: Options include (a) 3 hours' driving followed by a 2-hour flight, ( the $600 direct flight, or © driving across the fat parts of both Nevada and Idaho.) So I applied to three West Coast universities, and if none of them work out, I'll apply to more West Coast universities next year. Same story at the other end of the degree. Crazy? Maybe. But grad school's crazy, so this is pretty much par for the course, right?

[drpsych]

I'm from the Midwest, but I'm currently on the West Coast and I wish I could stay, but I would have to say that my research interest fit isn't as strong here, so it may be either back to the Midwest for me, or East Coast.. chose where my current top choice was

[miratrix]

In terms of schools I applied to, I''d like to stay on the east coast, especially due to region-specific research interests...but in terms of where I'd most like to go, Denmark or England actually have pretty amazing programs. Unfortunately, I'm not independently wealthy, nor am I brilliant enough for a Fulbright, so the US it is.

[domanda]

cities cities cites!