<p>just out of curiosity, has anyone here on cc or anyone here know anybody who rejected a more prestigous school and settled for a "lesser" one for other matters such as atmosphere, location, money, major match, campus life, etc... like.... how often do people reject schools like harvard not yale or stanford, but for lesser prestigous nonivies or ivy+ that are still respectable in academics and such like nyu or umich or berkley...</p>
<p>im turning down jhu/northwestern/uva for rutgers honors</p>
<p>my friends turning down haverford for rutgers honors</p>
<p>my other friend is turning down cornell for rice (not like its really less prestigious, but its not ivy omggg)</p>
<p>gasp?! can you believe it!! ;-)</p>
<p>haha sorry for my sarcasm</p>
<p>my friend and i who decided to go to rutgers did so b/c we felt rutgers honors would give us just as good an education (for free) and at least for me, the schools i got into weren't my top top choices</p>
<p>20% of Harvard admits turn it down. The number one reason is money. The rest generally choose schools they consider equally prestigeous.</p>
<p>this guy in my calculus turned down yale for loyola maramount. how random!</p>
<p>Turned down Rice and UPenn for UT Austin honors programs, officially as of yesterday, yikes.</p>
<p>A friend of mine turned down MIT(with no scholarship) for UMD with a full ride. He's so amazingly bright that he'll do great things regardless of where he goes... and he is.</p>
<p>Does this count ... many-many moons ago ... for even money I turned down MIT for Cornell Engineering. Why ... better fit with academics, athletics, students, campus, location, etc.</p>
<p>I've known a couple of Morehead scholars that turned down HYPS for UNC...and didn't even think twice about it.</p>
<p>I might choose Wake Forest or Davidson over Duke, but I'm not very sure you could call them "lesser" schools.</p>
<p>Hey haha i bet u know who i am</p>
<p>"He's so amazingly bright that he'll do great things regardless of where he goes... and he is."</p>
<p>This is a good point. Most kids who are talented enough to get into Harvard et al, don't NEED Harvard. </p>
<p>A friend of mine rejected Princeton for UMich. (better for engineering)</p>
<p>I turned down Cornell for Hofstra. Long, dumb story. I'm transfering to Cornell in the fall:)</p>
<p>As of fifteen minutes ago, I just officially turned down UC Berkeley for Rice. While to you guys, it may not seem like a bigdrop prestige-wise, everyone back home in the Philppines and here in New York knows Cal is amazng, while New Yorkers have no idea what it is and Filipinos just get a hankering for a good adobo when I mention it. Lol.</p>
<p>My friend at school is turning down a Harvard EA offer for admission to Deep Springs College. If any of you know of Deep Springs, you will know why he is doing this.</p>
<p>He got into Deep Springs? Wow- they only admit what, 12 students a year?!?!?! I considered applying, but the sheer amount of essays turned me off.</p>
<p>turned down UC Berkeley and Vandy for Emory. Not official. Can anyone turn my opinion around?</p>
<p>ecnerwalc3321: Of those three schools, UC Berkeley's academics are the best. Although most UC Berkeley students will admit that UC Berkeley's a tough school, there are many fun activities to do around the San Francisco Bay Area and many interesting people you will meet. UC Berkeley is highly regarded and will certainly help when job prospecting.</p>
<p>Deep springs? Impressive.</p>
<p>I'd imagine that not likeing one of your class mates at deep springs COULD Be a problem.</p>
<p>Deep Springs...tiny school? middle of nowhere? Just curious, what is the academic strength of that school, being tiny and in the middle of nowhere?</p>
<p>While we're on the topic of rejecting ivy schools, how good is Olin? Their brochure screams out (literally) "Reject Harvard/MIT/Princeton, come to us."</p>
<p>Wow, I was looking at deep springs. That sounds intense. It looks like it produces some of the most successful students. It seems almost everyone goes to grad school on graduation or law school or whatever. Impressive. They accept like 9% of their applicants. And it's uber hard to apply to begin with. That's more impressive that Harvard or the other Ivies, I think.</p>
<p>Last year we had two people here turn down Yale for other schools. One went to Vanderbilt (and is very happy there) because he received a full scholarship. The other turned down Yale to go to UNC Chapel Hill because he was offered the Morehead Scholars Award. He also is quite pleased with his choice. So, yes, it does happen.</p>