<p>This is popcorn worthy ;)</p>
<p>It would be popcorn worthy if it wasn’t so painfully ignorant.</p>
<p>Every college has popcorn. Our goal was not to pay for popcorn, so we made sure that our children only applied to schools which had popcorn machines in their dining halls, and also had seminars that came with free munchies (often popcorn). Some of you may not want popcorn, you may want Milk Duds or Red Vines or brown sugar frosted poptarts, in which case you should do your own research and not listen to me.</p>
<p>“So who put you in charge of the thread, frugaldoctor? I’ll relax when I choose, thank you, and I will point out other posters’ foolishness when I choose, as well.”</p>
<p>In the words of Sergent Hulka from Stripes “lighten up Francis”</p>
<p>Are y’all the same poster with multiple accounts? The Miami defense team perhaps?</p>
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<p>BEST POST EVER! (although slightly mean-spirited) </p>
<p>You forgot to mention that our daughter was offerd all the popcorn she could eat.</p>
<p>My S is applying to 1 state school, 3 OOS State/public schools and 10 private schools!! We know we don’t qualify for financial need, but putting him out there we can then decide once we have any acceptance letters where the financial looks better for us. He’s applying to top elite schools and we know they don’t offer merit aid! heck, everybody applying there are in the same boat of geniuses:)) why would they have to give merit??</p>
<p>Some of you people are such elitists you don’t even realize how your popcorn habit makes a mockery of people who cannot afford popcorn.</p>
<p>Conversely, some of you are highly insensitive to kids who cannot have popcorn (allergies, digestive disorders, etc.) and by suggesting that everyone evaluate colleges on the basis of their popcorn, you are showing your lack of awareness of these special snowflakes and the need for popcorn free campuses.</p>
<p>And still others claim- quite fallaciously- that grad schools care about how much popcorn you consume as an undergrad. There are numerous studies showing that this is not the case. Some of these studies have even been published in “The annals of snack food research” with rigorous peer review.</p>
<p>Thanks guys… I’l never be able to look at popcorn the same again!
:eek:</p>
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I heard they cobbled together bad research written by paskatooti and tetrazini. There is not a kernel of truth to it.</p>
<p>^^groan…that was bad!</p>
<p>How about the people who have no access to anything but crummy tasting cheese popcorn (that would be me, right now), as they have no vehicle, no means of escape, and the gift store is closed. It’s just not fair, all of you people have complete access to a full range of popcorn right now. You can probably even drink wine with your popcorn.</p>
<p>Hey- everyone’s a critic :(</p>
<p>Don’t you remember, we’ve been told here ad infinitum that the research by pascatooti and tetrazinni has shown that you can get just as good popcorn at a lesser quality store and pay far less than if you got it at an elite, gourmet store.</p>
<p>Where is annasdad when you need him? ;)</p>
<p>(or, to put it another way, is the prestigious popcorn worth the premium?)</p>
<p>Good question. Depends upon the taste. Best popcorn I ever had was in Chicago, I have no idea what it cost, and I didn’t mind that I waited in a long line to be served by surly cashiers. I wonder what the researchers would say, was it only good because everybody told me it was good, and I should have just bought a stale bag from 7-11? I was just influenced by other peoples opinions? So delicious…</p>
<p>Well, Garrett popcorn is in a league of its own… More highly trained chefs (or whatever you call people who pop popcorn), and its reputation as an elite popcorn-ery would make anyone want to pay full price. I am fortunate to be a legacy, so will get my gourmet popcorn for free, in a premium container without applying or standing in line with the peons.</p>
<p>Anyone that proves existance of merit aid at Princeton will get 4 years of popcorn from me.</p>
<p>I think someone mis-heard, father91.
I believe Princeton has ferret aid to help care for wayward pets, as well as ferret ade, a beverage made from the pets that didn’t get enough aid and couldn’t cover the gap.</p>
<p>Or maybe it was parrot aid… I am not quite sure.</p>
<p>Princeton doesn’t have merit aid, but I have heard that they have great popcorn. Isn’t Orville Reddenbacher an alum?</p>
<p>Back to OP, what does Dave Ramsey think of popcorn? I think he would be in favor of eating all the popcorn you can as long as you don’t go into debt doing so. He might even suggest buying a popcorn farm.</p>
<p>Orville went to Purdue. Would have thought maybe the chicken people would have attended Purdue/Perdue. And I do think both Perdue and Orville Reddenbacher bought the farm.</p>
<p>You can only buy the popcorn farm if you can pay cash for it (per Dave).</p>
<p>But then…if you could,pay cash for the popcorn farm, you probably would not need any kind of aid for college.</p>
<p>There is merit aid at the Ivys. It is called “preferential fin-aid packaging”. May be offered to fend off peer institutions competing for the same student.
Please do not offer me popcorn - I do not like it.</p>