<p>I would definitely turn down Harvard for Stanford</p>
<p>I'd turn it down for MIT if God happened to like me enough to let me get accepted to both, but I doubt there's any other school I'd turn it down for. Besides, MIT is sorta a three-for-one deal anyway. There's cross-registration at Harvard (and Wellesley, if you're a girl) for MIT students.</p>
<p>Of course, I haven't visited these places yet, so I can't really say accurately.</p>
<p>i would never turn down harvard.</p>
<p>I'm slightly considering turning down Harvard for Yale. Not too set on either school yet...</p>
<p>DO IT COPELAND! I did. Yale is better in so many ways. The only thing that really swayed me towards Harvard was Cambridge/Boston, but being smack in the middle of a city had disadvantages as well as advantages.</p>
<p>Cambridge is hardly smack dab in the middle of a city. We're close geographically, but culturally it has a completely different feel. We basically go to school in a college-town but have the resources of a big city only a few stops of the T away.
In terms of disadvantages to being in a city, I'm assuming you're referring to crime and/or noise. In that case, let me be the first to say: Welcome to New Haven!</p>
<p>I'm not worried about crime, but noise, my goodness! Say what you will, Cambridge practically hurt my ears. And it was just so cluttered and busy everywhere, yet the buildings were spread out all over the place. True enough, I live on a farm 10 miles from a town of 15,000 right now. And perhaps downtown New Haven is noisy (though I didn't think so when I visited, least of all compared to Cambridge), but the Yale campus is laid out in such a way as to avoid most of that, IMHO.</p>
<p>Also, in all truth, I picked Yale because I believe it to offer a superior undergraduate experience based on my interests and beliefs. It won't be the same way for everyone, but I'm quite sure I made the right choice.</p>
<p>would turn down harvard for stanford, yale, princeton, mit, oxford, cambridge, ETH zurich, imperial college at london, ecole polytechnique, and full ride at the rest of ivy, U of C, wastl, caltech, duke, and jhu</p>
<p>FYI: Harvard has the same three-for-one.
We can cross-register at MIT and Wellesley as well, and you don't need to be a girl to cross-register at Wellesley, from either school (my roommate took a course there and said it was hysterical to be the only guy)</p>
<p>^ Similarly, this is also the reason why I'm not very concerned about not getting off the Harvard waitlist. If I attend MIT, I still can go to classes at Harvard, so how would I lose anything?</p>
<p>Oh wow, I didn't know you could be a guy and cross-register at Wellesley. That's pretty cool. :) Can Wellesley students take classes at MIT and Harvard then?</p>
<p>If it wasn't for the fact that if I were to get into Harvard, my parents would make me send the deposit.. I would turn down Harvard for Duke! Same with Princeton & MIT.. as for every other school in the nation, I wouldn't turn down Harvard for anywhere else.</p>
<p>Possibly Stanford though.. lol</p>
<p>How could you let your parents make a decision like that for you? I'd rather live in a tent and live off cereal than let anybody else decide something like that for me.</p>
<p>Last I heard, there are no camping grounds in Cambridge!</p>
<p>Heh -- I just meant that if I had parents who tried to pull the "I'm telling you where to go to college because I'm paying" bit, I'd be happier stripping than letting them manipulate me like that. </p>
<p>Really.</p>
<p>But I'm particularly stubborn.</p>
<p>Yikes, as a middle aged mom, I'd hate to be "stripped"!</p>
<p>My parents would let me make the final decision (hopefully, lol.. not sure.) but if I was deciding between Duke and Harvard.. I would be living with two strong Harvard advocates. I did for a while when I chose to apply ED to Duke instead of EA to Harvard.</p>
<p>would turn down harvard for stanford, yale, princeton, mit, oxford, cambridge, ETH zurich, imperial college at london, ecole polytechnique, and full ride at the rest of ivy, U of C, wastl, caltech, duke, and jhu</p>
<p>Whatever folks....</p>
<p>Harvard's yield is like 80%....</p>
<p>So when actually faced with the choice, overwhelming majority go to Harvard.</p>
<p>If you turn down Harvard, then for the rest of your life you will say, "I went to ________University, but I got into Harvard."</p>