<p>My D turned down:</p>
<ol>
<li>UNC Business</li>
<li>Michigan (preferred Ross admission)</li>
<li>Boston College Honors</li>
<li>NYU Stern</li>
<li>Maryland Honors (plus 14K merit aid)-applied as safety</li>
<li>Rutgers Honors (plus 15K merit aid)-safety</li>
<li>Penn State-safety</li>
</ol>
<p>Son turned down:</p>
<p>-Denison U. full tuition ride (Paschal Carter scholarship for National Merit Finalists)
-UC Santa Barbara, honors college (OOS)
-UC Santa Cruz, presidential scholarship (OOS)
-Ohio Wesleyan U., Schubert Scholarship, as well as Founders Scholarship
-James Madison U. Madison Achievement Scholarship
-Christopher Newport, honors college</p>
<p>He’s going to UVa as an Art Scholar (instate)</p>
<p>My son turned down the following for UVa:</p>
<p>Dickinson - 20K merit
Lafayette - 20K merit
American - 12K merit
U. Delaware Honors - 12K merit
Penn State Schweyers Honors - in state, 3.5 merit
U. Pittsburgh Honors
Villanova</p>
<p>Turned down UVA, and so excited to attend James Madison - GO DUKES</p>
<p>^^^^^LOL, that is probably the dumbest decision anyone could make. And no, it does not matter for what major. For Duke, yes, for JMU, absolutely not.</p>
<p>Going for the gold (IB Diploma) and have worked hard, so one reason is that JMU actually gives college credits for college level classes. I also liked the “fit” better.</p>
<p>William and Mary
VT
JMU
ODU (Honors)
VCU</p>
<p>Almost a full ride at the last three.</p>
<p>stithalassa, stop ■■■■■■■■…</p>
<p>Just being honest - guess I’m a ■■■■■ since I don’t think UVA is perfect…and it’s not what you wanted to hear</p>
<p>My son chose UVa over:</p>
<p>William & Mary
Washington and Lee
Boston College
Wake Forest
VCU Honors College</p>
<p>It was a tough decision. All gave excellent aid (W&M was actually better than UVA:)).</p>
<p>DS finally chose UVA over:
VTech (dear to my heart)
W&M (hard to let it go)
JMU (his friends will be happy to get off the waitlist)
UGA
and I forget what else, lol.</p>
<p>Turned down William & Mary (Monroe Scholar) and Washington University in St. Louis.</p>
<p>W&M wasn’t as large of a research university as I wanted; also they didn’t have a hospital affiliated with the school. Washington University in St. Louis, I just didn’t want to spend that much money on an undergraduate education, and although the campus is gorgeous there is not much around.</p>
<p>James Madison- second highest with the financial aid package
George Mason
Penn State- screwed me over with my package. Only 10,500 in loans/grants. Tuition is going to be like 28,000+ not including room/board/etc. Was the school I wanted to go to for a phase…not anymore.</p>
<p>I picked UVA over Washu because of the cost. I got no financial aid from Washu as an international, and I couldn’t pay $60,000 a year</p>
<p>I picked UVA’s Jefferson program over Vanderbilt’s CV program. I’m still terrified that I made the wrong choice, but I’m sure in 6 months I’ll forget the name Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>someone please help me choose between uva, vanderbilt, northwestern…decisions are unfortunately due on the 1st :/</p>
<p>Are you UVa Echols, etc? You’ve got some excellent choices there. I would go for either Vandy or UVa but I’m biased because Northwestern waitlisted me. :P</p>
<p>Virginia Tech- too far away, nice engineering program though
William and Mary- seemed almost perfect, but no engineering…Williamsburg seemed like it would get old after a few years
UPitt Honors- didn’t any financial aid, OOS is too expensive</p>
<p>QandAorBust-William and Mary has a 3/2 plan for Engineering; It is with Columbia or Rensselaer. You complete 3 years at William and Mary and, assuming your GPA meets the requirement (I think a B average), you matriculate to Columbia/Rensselaer for Engineering.</p>
<p>oldUVagrad,CMU engineer husband, UVa engineering grad son and VT engineering son student would not have had/ did not have interest in William and Mary for engineering. It is a wonderful school but not the greatest choice if you want to do engineering(unless you are the kind of kid that wants an LAC experience as well, really wants to go to and loves W&M and can afford 5 years automatically for an engineering degree,etc.) William and Mary is great but not the kind of school that most kids that want to do engineering tend to think of. I think there may be kids that start out in 3/2 type programs that never go on to the second school- they like W&M for instance and don’t want to leave, find they really are not suited to engineering,etc.</p>