Why did you pick MU in the final analysis?

[mviale]

I have to admit that I chose Marquette in 1986 based on the memory of my past father while watching the 1977 Championship.  After watching years of Kentucky and North Carolina dominance, my father was happy to see a strong liberal arts school winning the basketball championship. My father held a PH.D in biophysics at Penn, so he knew a bit about basketball and education in the 70-80's. 

Someone was questioning whether "winning" was important and whether Bernard Toone types or JUCOs are worth recruiting.  Well, I think all of us need to ask the question: "why did I really choose Marquette"?  I think winning was the clincher for me.

[muhoops1]

I like to party

[mugrad99]

drinking age/grandfather clause......

But seriously, liberal arts school in an urban environment. My neighbor graduated from MU in 1961. Was going to go to ND, but when I went on my last campus tour, had a D-bag for a guide, and I was bored within a half hour.

[muarmy81]

I was accepted into the Engineering school directly.  Not like at UW where i had been accepted into the pre-engineering program.  I didn't want to re-apply to the engineering school so I chose MU.

[bma725]

Boston College wouldn't give me tuition remission and MU was free.

[ChicosBailBonds]

I wanted to go far away from California and be on my own.  Wanted a Catholic school, not to big, not to small.  Athletics was kind of big, but not a deal killer.  Solid academic reputaton.  Snow.  The beautiful Wisconsin women.

[NYWarrior]

I wanted to go to school away from home (I grew up in College Station, TX), to a school that sought a national student body in a bigger city where my relatives were literally about 1,000 miles away. 

Ultimately my decision to turn around and go back inside to the college fair at my high school where there was an MU alumnius manning a table changed my life......In the end, it was fate -- my high school has never had another appearance by MU at its college fair.  Completely random.

[mugrad99]

I -- my high school has never had another appearance by MU at its college fair. 

Coincidence?  I think not

[ChicosBailBonds]

Coincidence?  I think not

NYW broke the mold, they know the next kid from his high school could never live up to the hype.   

[mviale]

The beautiful Wisconsin women.

This sold me!

[NYWarrior]

NYW broke the mold, they know the next kid from his high school could never live up to the hype.   

hahaha.....well, i found out later that the MU alum at my high school that day was then a grad student at Texas A&M.  He got his degree and (smartly) left College Station that same year, I presume.  His name was Carlos Rodriguez.  I can't believe I remember that.

[madtownwarrior]

Had a dorm room all lined up at Wisc - Madison but visited MU and like the size of school and community feeling to it.    The downside at the time was that MU didn't have football (but Wisconsin really did either at that time).   BBall sucked at Wisconsin at that time too - but hey they are an elite program now since they have had a good decade (hint - sarcasm)...

[lurch91]

Ultimately my decision to turn around and go back inside to the college fair at my high school where there was an MU alumnius manning a table changed my life......

I believe it was the beer that changed your life NY.

For me, I grew up spending fall each year in South Bend (two brothers are Domers, and both my sisters are SMC chicks).  I even spent time as a camper on the ND campus during the summer, eating a few tables over from the ND football players while they took summer classes was pretty cool for a 12 year kid (even though these were the crappy Gerry Faust teams).

Didn't get accepted to ND - which was interesting because I was accepted by other schools with similar academic requirements, was going to go to John Carroll in Cleveland (my father's alma mater) but then a high school buddy was going to take a campus visit to Marquette University in the shadow program.  He asked if I wanted to join him, a call from my parents to the university to make the arrangements and one unforgettable weekend later - we were both Warriors.

Helped that a few others from my hometown also were at Marquette, even a few from my high school.

Best decision I ever made.

[ChicosBailBonds]

I believe it was the beer that changed your life NY.

For me, I grew up spending fall each year in South Bend (two brothers are Domers, and both my sisters are SMC chicks).  I even spent time as a camper on the ND campus during the summer, eating a few tables over from the ND football players while they took summer classes was pretty cool for a 12 year kid (even though these were the crappy Gerry Faust teams).

Didn't get accepted to ND - which was interesting because I was accepted by other schools with similar academic requirements, was going to go to John Carroll in Cleveland (my father's alma mater) but then a high school buddy was going to take a campus visit to Marquette University in the shadow program.  He asked if I wanted to join him, a call from my parents to the university to make the arrangements and one unforgettable weekend later - we were both Warriors.

Helped that a few others from my hometown also were at Marquette, even a few from my high school.

Best decision I ever made.

I was a Notre Dame reject as well.  Was accepted to UC Irvine, UC San Diego (both top 50 schools) and MU.  I didn't have the ND lineage  because a high school classmate of mine was accepted despite a lower GPA, fewer sports played but his dad was President of the So Cal ND Club.  Oh well.

That's why I also laugh sometimes at the UW-Madison folks saying MU students couldn't get into UW.  Plenty of us could (or did) but chose to go elsewhere.

[lurch91]

I was a Notre Dame reject as well. 

No malice to an ND education, but getting rejected by ND was probably the second best thing to happen to me concerning my college education, first was choosing Marquette.  If I had been accepted to ND, I would have been going for all the wrong reasons in my book (hindsight being 20/20).

[Eye]

My parents were from Menomonee Falls and Milwaukee, so I started going to the Classic when we went to my grandparent's houses over Christmas starting in '78. I wanted to get into broadcasting, and MU was the best big-school broadcasting program out of town, but semi-close to home (had little to no interest in any of the Wisconsin hyphen schools). A car accident took half my cash first semester of my sophomore year, so I basically had no choice but to go to one of those hypen schools so I could finish college basically for free. The lack of debt for the last 14 years has been nice, but I wish I would have sucked it up and stayed. One of my classmates from back then has my dream job now!

[THEGYMBAR]

Al McGuire!!!

[rocky_warrior]

Well, I wanted to be a long way from home.  And MU was at my HS college fair (otherwise I wouldn't have ever thought of them).  In the end, I applied to and was accepted to 4 schools (for Engineering) and the rational for MU was...

Rose Hulman - Too many geeks, not enough girls.
GMI (formerly General Motors Institute, now Kettering) - Too many geeks, Flint Michigan
Washington University - Not enough financial aid!

Marquette - Just right, city environment, good people.

Oh yeah - and my dad said "Huh, Marquette.  Where is that?  They used to have a great basketball team." 

[tower912]

Lurch, who are you kidding?  You came to MU to get away from my sister.   I was accepted everywhere I applied.   I came to Milwaukee for a weekend to see the school and take a scholarship exam.   The Friday night, the guys who put me up were having a party on their floor at the beer can.   5 Kegs.  I mildly hooked up with the sister of one of the guys on the floor (she also was there for the same test I was).   I took the exam the next morning hungover.   Oddly enough, I did poorly.  After the test, I walked down to the lakefront, stopping at the mall on the way.  I stayed with some sophomores in the triple on Saturday night, and we went and played basketball until 2 in the morning.   Perfect.   After that, for some reason, I found something to not like about every school I visited.  

[lurch91]

I mildly hooked up with the sister of one of the guys on the floor (she also was there for the same test I was).  

Tower, grabbing a girl's breast and then getting slapped in the face does not constitute a hook-up, or even a mild hook-up.

[tower912]

The truth hurts. 

[MUEng92]

My older brother went to MSOE and I remember seeing the "MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY" sign on the side of the Rec Center when we drove him up to Milwaukee.  I found out about MU in the college rating books even though a (much) older cousin had gone to MU.  It seemed to match what I was looking for.  I knew I wanted to be able to go to basketball games that meant something and being on the shy side, I knew the miniscule girl to guy ratio at MSOE wouldn't work for me. 

It could not have worked out better.  I liked the area so much I still live on the outskirts of the metro area and my MU graduate wife and I are celebrating our 15th anniversary this summer.  Oh yeah, and I now can say I went to Catholic school for 16 years!

All I have to put up with are the reactions I get when I tell people around here that I am a Cubs fan.  I can live with that.

[OneMadWarrior]

Jesuit High School Kid, that loverd the education the Jesuits provided me. I wanted to go far away from hoem to get out of the comfort zone (Grew up in Washington DC) Goign to school in the city was a must. But mostly it was Michael Vick's fault. Virginia Tech was where I was going to go, they were my safety school, then the Applications tripled and I got muscled out. Now he's in prison, frankly I feel that is justice. (although I still root my heart out for Va Tech football)

[radome]

NROTC, Catholic, urban campus, a team worth pulling for and the drinking age was 18.

[nyg]

Came down to Notre Dame or MU.  Took MU and found out other Long Island kids also were there.  Notre Dame was guys only at the time, which was not going to happen.  But, the B-ball uniforms were the closer.