<p>A very good friend of mine from high school rejected Stanford for the University of Denver (Stanford was too expensive). Another one of my friends rejected Harvard for Amherst College--she says she liked the atmosphere here better!</p>
<p>well.... amherst is like... #2 for LACs... so its not really a drop in prestige.. lots of people reject princeton for williams</p>
<p>hey i know you guys were mentioning Olin way back.. what's so special about this college? where is it? </p>
<p>Let me think about the prestige thing... I know someone who got into Harvard (or Stanford. or both) and went to Rutgers (honors, full ride) a few years ago, so he would save money. His mother promised to give him all the money they would be saving in the form of a deposit on a house.</p>
<p>i am going to emory because i get preferential housing and class choices plus all the other perks you get as a scholar, its free which gives me more pocket money to travel, they have good study abroad opps, the middle eastern studies program is good (arabic and hindi), plus i have the opportunity to get my B.A. and M.A. in four years in Political Science (international relations). also have opps to due internships at theatres and i get to perform throughout college</p>
<p>NYU- way too much money. Tisch is $48,000 and i would have to go into over $70,000 in debt to go for four years (tuition...not including travel expenses and such)
Yale- not a generous package compared to other ivies
harvard- i love the area and the parties but i did not like the feel of the campus nor did i like the attitudes i recieved " this is harvard...why go anywhere else." no organized theatre department got to me in the end. grade inflation and lack of good study abroad options.
Brown- ok financial aid package but the school just really did not appeal to me as much as the others...plus it lacks a very strong theatre department..plus providence lacks a little atmosphere
Wellesley- it was a nice campus but overall when i went i liked the atmosphere but the school did not offer everything i needed, i lacked a connection to the campus.. and i realized i needed to be closer to the city.
Emerson- not accepted into Musical Theatre program
NCCU- just did not want to go (mom made me apply because of the offer of a full ride)</p>
<p>if you think my decision is crazy...continue to do so...by all means do not think this decision was easy but i am happy</p>
<p>Olin College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to the Princeton Review. The Princeton Review has selected Olin for inclusion in the forthcoming 2005 edition of its annual guidebook, The Best 357 Colleges. </p>
<p>In addition to a listing among the Best 357 Colleges, Olin will be featured as one of the eight schools receiving the Princeton Reviews Best designation for the first time. </p>
<p>We regard the schools in this book as the cream of the crop institutions for undergraduate education, said Robert Franek, assistant vice president, Princeton Review. Only about 10 percent of the colleges in America and only two Canadian colleges are included in the book. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering clearly fit the criteria we were looking for, and we are pleased to include Olin in our new edition.</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://www.olin.edu/about_olin/news/pr_single.asp?id=120%5B/url%5D">http://www.olin.edu/about_olin/news/pr_single.asp?id=120</a></p>
<p>of course... i wouldn't say its THAT great... but isnt that school for engineering or something?</p>
<p>Now you decision makes sense, tyeger</p>
<p>haha xo,
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...Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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... i would say yes</p>
<p>wow: "Scholarship Policy: Every admitted student receives a four-year, full tuition scholarship valued at approximately $125,000" (from the site)</p>
<p>sounds like an awesome school. oh well, not going into engineering anyway. definitely wouldn't have gotten in haha</p>
<p>Congratulations on you choice, tyeger87! You have excellent reasons for attending Emory, including the academics, the atmosphere, the money and the theater department. It goes to show that one size does not fit all. Good luck to you in your future endeavors!</p>
<p>Tyeger those are very good reasons, Emory Scholars is hard to turn down, the extra benefits are amazing.</p>
<p>woah, you passed up Yale drama?</p>
<p>ok, people, so it is OFFICIAL now:</p>
<p>I turned down Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Penn for....Utah Community College......Joke (I would put a smilie here, but i don't know how to make it!).</p>
<p>I put all those schools down for YALE. Yeah, I know this probably does not count, but if you are from Bulgaria it does. Here people have heard mainly of Harvard, although the only thing they know about the school is that it is #1. Very few know about Yale, and even if they have, they can rarely pronounce the name correctly. So after I made up my mind I am constantly getting the following:"Who in his right mind would turn down H for another school, especially for that Uel (this is how it sounds when Bulgarians try to pronounce Yale)!"</p>
<p>Oh, well, as jia put it, I don't beleive I will regret my decision , but I hope that my ego will be able to handle the fact that internationally Y is less known than H!!!</p>
<p>No matter where you end up, people, I wish you a bright future!!!</p>
<p>My friend turned down MIT and Stanford for UIUC Engineering. He's now a grad student at Stanford. I attended UIUC Engineering over Northwestern.</p>
<p>A Friend of mine turned down Princeton, Harvard, Brown, UVA, (& maybe Yale) for a near full ride to William and Mary's Honors Program...money was the reason but it wasn't really an "issue." I think her parents could pay...but she didn't want to burden them with 44k a year.</p>
<p>do u guys think years down the road "prestigous, expensive" colleges will lose more and more of their top candidates who don't qualify for fin aide to "lesser" schools that give them fullrides?</p>
<p>Well, it happened to us (money > prestige). But there will always be enough folks willing to pay full price. I kind of liked the idea from another thread (from mini?) to auction off the top 5% of seats to the highest bidder. Some will be happy to do this and thus subsidize other lower income students. Brilliant!</p>
<p>I turned down Colby and Kenyon for Rhodes in Memphis - a lot of merit aid, plus I really just liked it the best.</p>
<p>xokandykyssesox: "do u guys think years down the road "prestigous, expensive" colleges will lose more and more of their top candidates who don't qualify for fin aide to "lesser" schools that give them fullrides?"</p>
<p>Only to a degree. As I mentioned on my previous posts on this thread ( <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=772071#post772071%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=772071#post772071</a> and <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=772172#post772172%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=772172#post772172</a> ) Wash U and (to a limited degree Stanford) have tried merit aid. I think Wash U has done an amazing job, and it's working for them. But interestingly it didn't work for Stanford and funding all National Merit awardees seemed to work for Northwestern. Why did it work for Northwestern and not for Stanford? I think applicants were proud of their National Merit accomplishment and wanted it to be funded, whereas for Stanford it ws an award given after they applied, they didn't even know they were going to get it. I think an award works if you put a lot into it and you actually get it. Stanford's was after the fact.</p>
<p>I think if the applicant takes the initiative and applies for a scholarship and get's it at a lesser school, that's in the ball park of the better school, then yes the lesser school will pick up more and more of the better students. Just look at all the student's attending Honor colleges for instance. But the school has to be in the ball park reputation wise for it to work.</p>
<p>Someone back in thread expressed the idea that Emory was a hole in the ground compared to the Ivies, so this is addressed to him or her.</p>
<p>Emory's not an Ivy, sure, but it's still very respected. It's considered the "Ivy of the South"-- Duke doesn't count, because Emory is in the HEART of the South (I live in the heart of the South, so I can say that). </p>
<p>Perhaps that's what "kills" it-- it might be considered a more regional school.</p>
<p>It is NOT a cess pit or hole in the ground. It's not on Ivy level, but it's not like a degenerate school or something. </p>
<p>I assume you DON'T know much about it, so I'd find it more intelligent of you to simply not make assumptions about it in a fit of "YOU gave up an Ivy?!?!" disbelief. I was surprised someone picked Emory over the big Ivies, but I didn't put it down, either.</p>
<p>I think this is a huge turn down:</p>
<p>This kid is going to Drexel instead of Lehigh, Lafayette, CMU, Rochester
WOW</p>