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<p>Quite accurate as far as graduate school. And I do believe one’s graduate school will trump the name of one’s undergraduate school immediately if one obtains a graduate degree.</p>
<p>Batman, I hope things get better for you. You should do some thinking and try to go around the problem, rather than through it, if that’s possible :)</p>
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<p>Don’t know! I don’t think they find out until later. Maybe graduate students have to start out GSI-ing Math 1A or 1B, but who knows. He’s had a lot of experience explaining stuff though, since he was a tutor for many years. </p>
<p>Probably <em>not</em> Math 53, since he doesn’t remember that very well, but 54 is possible.</p>
<p>Haha I realize Pomona is in california, but his reasons for turning down the east coast schools were that they weren’t in california. So that comment referred to all of them but Pomona, which he thought was too small lol.</p>
<p>If you want to see how common it is, just look at the cross admit chart:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html</a></p>
<p>My friend turned down columbia for berk
my other friend turned down yale and caltech
my other friend turned down cornell. there are lots of these.</p>
<p>I turned down Duke BME for Berkeley BioE.
It was an insanely hard decision for me to make, and I’m still not entirely certain I made the right choice.
In the end, my reasoning was that I would be getting around the same level of education at Cal, for half the cost.</p>
<p>One of the biggest draws for Duke was that it was a private institution, with an insanely beautiful campus/great research around it. I’ve only ever gone to public schools my entire life, and I kinda wanted to check out the whole “small class sizes, personalized interaction with professors, etc” deal that’s associated with high-level private universities, but in the end, fiscal responsibility prevailed.</p>
<p>Who knows? I might end up heading over there for like graduate school, or when I enter the industry…</p>
<p>My cousin turned down Cornell for Berkeley.
My sister would have turned down both Stanford and Duke BME PhD for Berkeley BioE PhD. Too bad she didn’t get into the Berkeley PhD program and headed to Duke.
I turned down Berkeley for roughly $40k. If all costs are the same, I would turn down Amherst & Williams for Berkeley. They aren’t ivies, but they’re in the same tier as the mid-tier ivies.</p>
<p>Turning down Cornell for Berkeley is not surprising. Cornell is barely an Ivy, but costs like one. Its in upstate NY which sucks too. And Berkeley is better than Cornell at engineering, so asking if anyone turned down Cornell for Berkeley is kinda obvious. Most people do.</p>
<p>I turned down Harvard. I don’t regret it at all. Most of my good friends here turned down one or more of the ivies (though this may be because I hang out with people that are pretty smart). Berkeley as an institution is objectively better than all the ivies except Harvard.</p>
<p>turned down University of Chicago and Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell because it’s the UCSC of the Ivies and I’m not going into Engineering</p>
<p>and Chicago because it’s TOOOOOOOOO cold. I don’t want to be stuck indoors for most of the day for most of my school years until when I actually have to study in Law school and whatnot.</p>
<p>Though, UChicago is actually my 2nd/3rd choice for law school. After Harvard :3</p>
<p>Turned down Cornell and CMU (for SCS) for Cal EECS. Cal ranked highest and was the cheapest. The difficulty is going to be killer no matter what, so why not the cheapest option?</p>
<p>Way back almost 10 years ago, I applied to Berkeley along with several elite US schools and UK universities as an international student. My first choice back then was MIT but closely followed by Berkeley. Unfortunately, neither school has accepted me. :D</p>
<p>RML, out of curiosity, where DID you go, and what did you study? I recall you had an impressive list of schools to choose from (most especially as an international admit).</p>
<p>Turned down Northwestern . I went to visit in April and it was raining horizontally and temperatures were in the 40’s. 
deal breaker</p>
<p>I know 2 people who turned down Cornell for Berkeley</p>
<p>mathboy98, </p>
<p>I finally decided to go to Girton College in Cambridge. I chose it over Columbia, UPenn, Duke, Rice, Mudd among others. It was a pretty tough decision to make though. But I honestly would have gone to Berkeley if I got accepted. :)</p>
<p>She is a music major and the Ivies have terrible music programs.</p>
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Sometimes I find that to be the worst part of Berkeley. This semester, I really wanted to push myself to the limit because of all of Cal’s opportunities. I got three jobs and ended up commuting to SF several times a week. However, the stress really got to me and at a school like Berkeley, there was no one there for support. I think the greatest benefit of an ivy is the handholding that the school gives you. Here, there is no safety net. You fall and you bear your own weight</p>
<p>^^ That’s true, sadly. But in life, there is no safety net either.
Here’s the other extreme.
[I’m</a> a Harvard grad who can’t hold a fast-food job | Salon Life](<a href=“http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/05/06/harvard_grad/?acquire]I’m”>http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/05/06/harvard_grad/?acquire)</p>
<p>what about the others?</p>
<p>anymore responses?</p>
<p>I suppose there were better schools I could have picked for my current major, such as UCSD or even Cornelle, but my primary consideration was that if I ever wanted to switch out of bioE I didn’t think there were any other majors I’d like to do at any of the other colleges that were any good. I was always rather apathetic to this going to college thing in high school; I just wanted to get out of my parents’ house. To be honest though, I think I would have been happy at any college or university not in SoCal.</p>