No thanks, Harvard

<p>Deep Springs is only two years, isn't it? Students there then transfer (most to top colleges) to get their degrees.</p>

<p>Another one of these turn-down fests, eh? I love narcissism.</p>

<p>I turned down Cal, and Columbia for UCLA. Woot!</p>

<p>Last year turned down UC Berkeley for UC Irvine w/ benefits.</p>

<p>UC Irvine with benefits? Sounds remotely erotic. </p>

<p>I turned down a Regents at UCI, but when UCLA came knocking with an Alumni Scholarship for slightly less, I had to stick in LA.</p>

<p>I was this close to going to Irvine though. Go Anteaters! Woot!</p>

<p>My son turned down MIT, Caltech, Princeton, Berkeley, etc. for Olin. MIT had always been his dream school, but when he visited Olin, he just felt it was perfect for him. Zoogies, Olin has a fair number of kids who pick it over the more prestigious schools because of what it offers (besides the money, which is good, too). Since it's only 3 years old, it doesn't really have a prestige rating yet, but it's very selective and academically rigorous. We met someone else who rejected Princeton to go there and loves it.</p>

<p>turned down harvard and yale for princeton, that probably doesn't count though.</p>

<p>Deep Springs is a two year college in which the students generally transfer to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Stanford. It is mind boggling to figure out how to get into DSC because it is more selective than all the major world universities. </p>

<p>6 1,500 word essays is enough to show the students at DSC who really wants to join the ranks. It is a great place to go if you are into that kind of stuff (i.e. working ranch, choose your own classes and next year's students).</p>

<p>Anyone who can get admitted to Deep Springs can get admitted to HYPS.</p>

<p>Isn't that an all-male school though?</p>

<p>Yes, it is.</p>

<p>My friend's sister turned down Columbia for Penn State.</p>

<p>Some senior last year turned down MIT for Georgia Tech.</p>

<p>Some senior this year will probably turn down Columbia for Georgia Tech.</p>

<p>There are probably other examples I am not thinking of.</p>

<p>Most of it has to do with money though, but in any case, it's wise not to use all your money and become terribly in-debt for undergrad... save all your money for grad school (that is, if you plan to go).</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins is a great school. Did you at least visit this spring? </p>

<p>I understand you got a free ride at Rutgers, but the experience is going to be very different. Did you even attempt to negotiate with the financial aid office at Hopkins?</p>

<p>haha...supermtt37, im in the same position as your friend (turning down cornell for rice)</p>

<p>My girlfriends daughter turned down Yale for College of the Holy Cross (all paid/liked atmosphere better) and a senior at my sons school turned down Columibia for a full scholarship at Fordham (honors college)His cousin went there and then Columbia grad school and has a great job, so he had motivation beyond the money. I'm sure there are many turn downs that are based on $ and atmosphere. If you don't feel a "fit" why go for the name?</p>

<p>barry, yea i visited the open house just to make sure i was comfortable w/ my decision. there were a few schools that i really liked... but the ones i got into werent really part of that group. The classes that i visited @ hopkins didn't really impress me much at all (i know you cant say all classes are like that-- but i sat in on 5 and only one actually had an engaging prof), while the rutgers open house bio presentation was surprisingly impressive (the honors day they held also was).... i felt that the only thing i'd be missing out on was a pretty campus @ hopkins and a sack of debt.
so it wasn't totally about the money, and yea i can't negotiate w/ the finaid office, i'm not getting any haha.</p>

<p>just to explain myself ;-)</p>

<p>I turned down Princeton for Duke, don't know if that really counts though...</p>

<p>I know someone who turned down Stanford for UChicago. A great choice for her, though one I certainly would not make.</p>

<p>Hmm...perfect weather, gorgeous green campus, and access to the Bay Area for Chicago.</p>

<p>Hmm....</p>

<p>Hmm... must've like the Sears Tower just that much.</p>

<p>From my school (stuyvesant), the school that pretty much 100% of aceptees go to is:</p>

<p><em>drumroll please</em></p>

<p>OLIN!</p>

<p>Those people that get into Olin turn down MIT, Cal Tech, HYP without thinking twice.</p>

<p>I know tons of kids at stuyvesant and I've never known anyone whose gone to Olin except this one kid who then wrote an article about how he turned down harvard for it...</p>