<p>I'm curious about the schools students turned down in favor of UVA and why.</p>
<p>If it was me I would turn down harvard lol. UVA has an amazing buisness school. I’ve seen living proof of what the school can do for people time and time again…</p>
<p>1.)Virginia Tech </p>
<p>2.) NYU - no campus, not particularly attracted to NYC, and $$$</p>
<p>Brandeis (tough decision, they offered me a fellowship)
McGill (too cold, dude)</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I would’ve turned down Harvard and Columbia if I’d gotten in.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt (tough decision; they offered me the Cornelius Vanderbilt scholarship which includes full tuition for 4 years + a travel or research stipend)</p>
<p>Georgetown SFS</p>
<p>Because Virginia “felt” the most right.</p>
<p>Boston College, UNC Chapel Hill, NYU</p>
<p>I also turned down Vanderbilt for UVA, but this was 4 years ago.</p>
<p>University of Michigan - Ross preadmit. Size, weather, distance from home</p>
<p>unc chapel hill - uva was better for my major
umcp - too close to home
carnegie mellon - too expensive
virginia tech - mddle of nowhere</p>
<p>Northwestern, BC Honors, UNC, Wake Forest, Pepperdine (Dean Scholarship), Trinity ($)</p>
<p>UNC, BYU, USC (the one in LA), and Tulane</p>
<p>UVA was the second cheapest of the five, and in the end i decided that since I wasn’t sure what I was going to major in, UVA’s all around better program compared to BYU would be more likely to get me where I want to go. Also, its the closest school to home.</p>
<p>I WOULD have picked UVa Echols over University of Chicago, William and Mary, and Emory College, but another school just fit a bit more. :P</p>
<p>I picked UVA over Johns Hopkins (I loved the students and location of Hop, and it was actually better for what I wanted as my major [IR], it was just too small for me - my high school has almost 3K kids and Hopkins only has about 5K undergrad. Also, I’m a huge school spirit person and Hopkins just didn’t have the same state-school spirit that UVA has, especially with lax being their only D1 sport.)</p>
<p>I also chose UVA over Barnard College (Columbia University’s sister school).</p>
<p>I chose UVA McIntire over NYU Stern. I wanted to go to Stern since middle school because of its finance program and city life. In the end, I choose to go instate since I don’t qualify for any financial aid. I’m still a die-hard Sternie and would love to get my MBA from Stern.</p>
<p>UVA over U of Rochester, Vtech, a few other lower schools.
but will probably transfer, UVA does not have what I need no matter how I look at it</p>
<p>And what is it that you need?</p>
<p>good standings in my department/field of interest. Why are people so defensive when people say a school, in this case UVA, is not good at something. Since when is aspiring to be better been wrong? Assuming you are right and what other people say are wrong is suicide. I just hope the UVA administration doesn’t share this complacent attitude.</p>
<p>Brown, Emory, Tufts, Tulane</p>
<p>wa-hoo-wa!</p>
<p>I wasn’t being defensive. I was merely wondering. Chillax.</p>
<p>@ beyond_stressed</p>
<p>…well that’s ironic</p>