Jeff Bren­zel recently posted on The Huff­in­g­ton Post his advice for stu­dents when they have been accepted to col­lege. I thought that this was a great idea since even though it’s extremely impor­tant to dis­cuss deal­ing with dis­ap­point­ment and road­blocks, it’s just as impor­tant to dis­cuss what to do with those accep­tance letters.

Ulti­mately, I was very happy with my final choice—though hon­estly, I know that I would have been happy with many of the schools to which I applied. After all of the stress of apply­ing to schools, we some­times for­get that it can also be very dif­fi­cult to hold the decision-making power. Here are some point­ers that I learned from my own experience.