Why I ended up at Siena
Throughout high school, each grade has a meeting in the beginning of each year to discuss what students should be focusing on in that particular year. However, each year there seemed to be a few factors that were mentioned from freshman year until senior year. The mandatory discussion on the dress code and behavior in school was a give in, but also each year we were instructed as to what we should be doing to prepare for college. Junior year I started to really take this information seriously and began to look at potential colleges. I am the oldest child on my dad’s side of the family by a very big age difference. My dad is one of five children, all of which attended college and three of which attended the same school. However, that school did not suit me well at all. So each member of my dad’s side of the family began to give me advice as to where they thought I should go to school, Siena being a school that was commonly mentioned. When I began the college search my only real concerns were that I wanted a school that was big on sports and was not farther than two hours away from home. I am very close with all of my family, especially my two sisters. Soon after I went to visit Siena and I understood why my family thought I would really like this school. My parents loved the school, and one of my younger sisters even came on one tour of Siena because she’s only one year younger than I am and decided to start looking at schools early on. Needless to say, I had more than enough people pushing for me to come to Siena. After visiting Siena, despite the fact that I really liked the school and what it had to offer I pushed it to the back of my mind and decided to go look at some other schools. In the end, I realized that I had been putting off the inevitable, being that I was going to end up at Siena. There was nothing that I could specifically point out about the school that I didn’t like and they offered me some financial aid, more than my other top choice, so in the end the decision was not a difficult one. The school was a good size, the campus was pretty, I was offered some financial assistance and I could be close to my family.