<p>I turned down Yale for the Jefferson scholarship at UVA, and the only thing that was hard about that was turning down the name. UVA just felt like it fit better - and it wasn't a matter of financial aid, since Yale gave me almost a full ride. </p>
<p>I don't think I'm going to regret it though. I would like to think my ego can handle it.</p>
<p>I turned down UC Berkeley, UCLA, Amherst, and JHU for USC <em>entering as English major</em>
Two of my friends turned down the same UCs as well as ND for 'SC
One friend turned down Cal and Macalester for Boston <em>honestly don't know how those compare those...</em>
One other classmate turned down Columbia for CSUN. </p>
<p>Everyone except the friend who's going to Boston chose for financial reasons. Those schools just turned out cheaper. Plus, we like them!</p>
<p>"There have been more Nobel Laureates at Columbia than at any other university (72 in total, including 1 last year)."</p>
<p>No, the statement is false. UChicago had 77 Nobel Laureates so far.</p>
<p>D finally made decision Wednesday; turned down Georgetown, Johns Hopkins (& 3 others) to go local, University of MD. Turned down div 1 soccer recruit @ Stonybrook; liked school & coaches @ Stonybrook a lot, but came down to wanting to be close to home & more activities @ large campus (also full 4-year academic ride didn't hurt!). D plans to play club soccer @ UMD, tryout for Varsity & room with 2 HS friends w/similar serious academic plans & high morals. D seems happy w/her choice, but she probably would have been happy anywhere.</p>
<p>PSU Honors is incredibly selective so congrats. It is an outstanding academic experience. One thing to consider though is that at BU about 10% of the student body are in Honors and then there is another group of students in the Univ. Professors Program or 7 yr BA/MD program. Where as at Penn State it was around 2% of the population or less that were in the Hon. Program.
You may want to take that into consideration in terms of social life and number of Honors classes, students, staff. Our S chose BU Honors and is very happy. There isn't a huge difference there among the students whereas the PSU Honors students tend to stay among themselves and its a small group. Just something to consider.</p>
<p>I turned down LSE for Brown.</p>
<p>Some guy my fresman year turned down HYP and some others for the state honors uni, and some guy my sophomore year turned down HYP for Stanford, but I don't know if that counts :).</p>
<p>Columbia to CSUN is a pretty huge difference!</p>
<p>dogs: how good is psu honors? my friend is having a hard time deciding between stern and that. money is a big issue for stern since they dont give good packages (a huge loan, big debt) but i think psu offered him almost a fullride. his mom is almost making him go to psu cuz of money, but he wants stern cuz its "better social scene"... what would u guys do?</p>
<p>without a doubt psu. the social life is good there, and regarding psu honors kids sticking together... he doesnt have to. plus nyu is not on a campus and itll be a lot more expensive. its not worth it to pick a school because of a better social scene. i can relate to this, i had to choose between stern, wharton (both of which were very expensive) and umd honors and i chose umd honors. if he's in a selective program at psu (and as mentioned before, only 2% of the student body at psu is) id definitely go to psu.</p>
<p>i think he's in PSU Schreyers</p>
<p>tl;dr thread.</p>
<p>The #2 girl in our class turned for Princeton for Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
The #3 girl in our class turned down Columbia for Stonehill (because of track).
The #7 guy in our class turned down Cornell for Stonehill (because of track).</p>
<p>"There have been more Nobel Laureates at Columbia than at any other university (72 in total, including 1 last year)."</p>
<p>"No, the statement is false. UChicago had 77 Nobel Laureates so far."</p>
<p>I always view self-counting of Nobel prizes by institutions as an art rather than a science. If a Nobel prize winner even used Kleenex at an institution they are likely to count him amongst their Nobelists. I prefer counting a Nobel for the institution where the Nobelist was working when the Nobel was awarded.</p>
<p>By that measure (for American Universities to 2002, 10 or more):</p>
<p>Harvard 28
Stanford 17
MIT 15
U of Chicago 15
Cal Tech 14
Berkeley 14
Columbia 12
Princeton 11</p>
<p>World Institutions with 10 or more:</p>
<p>Cambridge 23
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 18
Univ of London 17</p>
<p>this guy at my school turned down dartmouth for U Colorado Boulder....</p>
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<p>has anyone deferred amission or plans on doing that? would that be a good idea to do something iv wanted to do but never done like go abroad with peace corp or something or is that a waste of time and i should just settle down, clinche my teeth, and get through the next 6 years (until finish grad) in one breath with no stops</p>
<p>Sadly turned down UChicago. It was my dream school, but offered little financial help. I'll be attending Beloit in the fall.</p>
<p>I declined Berkeley for NYU. Distance and money were two factors. I'm going for mathematics, and even though NYU has a top notch mathematics program, Berkeley's is the best in the nation. But you know, sometimes other factors are important. It still irks me though.</p>
<p>So I'm thinking about going to Berkeley for Grad school.</p>
<p>I turned down Emory and Kenyon for New College of Florida.
For a variety of reasons, but I'm content with New College.</p>
<p>the parties???</p>