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<p>Just so that the OP doesn’t get confused, what she means is, instead of going to CMU, you could go to XYZ with a full ride scholarship, where XYZ is a school that is a notch or two or three below CMU. There are some threads about automatic scholarship, NMF scholarship etc. on CC that you can search for. My favorite story this year is a CC girl who turned down Harvard, Yale, Rice… for a full ride at Baylor U in Waco, TX.</p>