<p>I hate having to explain to people around where I live why I chose MIT over Harvard. :(</p>
<p>MIT ≈ Harvard</p>
<p>I know a boy who turned down Princeton last year for a full ride to the University of South Carolina Honors College. His family has money, too. The bottom line for him was that he thought the kids he met on his Princeton visit were pretentious (edited out - JEM). Of course, he only applied to two colleges.</p>
<p>Does having "Ivy Worthy" stats and not applying to the "prestigious" colleges because they don't have the program you want count as "turning them down?" What about those who don't bother to apply because they know they can't afford it? I know a few kids, myself included, that have the stats but didn't apply anywhere "prestigious" in the USNWP sense.</p>
<p>well... having "ivy stats" does not neccessarily mean acceptance to ivies. it is a known fact a bunch of 1500+, 3.9+ uw, bunch of EC people get turned down</p>
<p>It means exceptence to most of the Ivies, just not the top ones lol</p>
<p>thoughtprocess, no it does not. heck, non-ivies turn down people with those stats.
(acceptance*)</p>
<p>well, i guess you have to write decent essays too</p>
<p>and hope that by luck they like you</p>
<p>a friend of mine turned down harvard, yale, brown, nyu and emerson for emory.</p>
<p>I know a girl who turned down NYU, McGill, Boston College, URochester and others to go to Northeastern. Northeastern's turning into quite the school though, which is a far cry from what some older people view it as.</p>
<p>northeastern? really? not northwestern?</p>
<p>for CalPoly San Luis Obispo because despite full tuition scholarship, S HATED Cooper and could not envision himself spending 4 years there. Turned down Carnegie Mellon because he was waitlisted for his top choice proograms (2 of them) and was not interested in paying out those huge bucks for his 3rd choice program. But most of all he just LOVED CalPoly SLO and it seems like he will fit in very well there.</p>
<p>i know two seniors:(not in total, but I'm in Junior HIgh and these are related seniors)
One was accepted to: harvard, MIT, Caltech, Duke, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and Northwestern. What did he choose instead? He decided to go to the local community college because his parents forced him to.</p>
<p>The second was accepted to:
JHU, Harvard, NYU, Yale, Princeton, Julliard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell...
Which did he choose?
...Rice Univeristy. Why? I don't know. Harvard, Yale and Princeton all gave him full scholarships. Cornell and JHU gave him basically 80% full scholarship and Julliar, MIT, and Standford were willing to pay him, just to grab him into their circle. There must be some reasons...</p>
<p>"One was accepted to: harvard, MIT, Caltech, Duke, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and Northwestern."</p>
<p>Why on earth would he apply to all of those schools if you knew your parents were going to force you to go to a community college? Also why would his parents do that?</p>
<p>Tkmonkey, I am sure the second guy got a full merit ride to Rice, whereas Harvard etc gave him great financial aid. There is a big difference. No Ivies give out academic scholarships.</p>
<p>TKmonkey-</p>
<p>If your friend applied to Juilliard and ended up at Rice instead, I expect that he's majoring in music (though I'm not particularly sure how MIT ended up in the mix... how odd). Music schools are a bit of a different breed, in terms of college admissions. Perhaps he felt he'd prefer to work with a specific instructor at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice and decided that he'd rather go there. Maybe he felt more comfortable with their orchestra conductor, if he's an orchestral instrumentalist, or with their choral director if he's a vocalist. Perhaps he liked the facilities. Rice has a strong music school, too, in a very supportive and competitive quasi-conservatory setting... Plus, can't be all that bad if Itzhak Perlman's got his daughter there, eh? ;)</p>
<p>College is (strike that... College <em>should</em> be!) all about where you feel most comfortable and where you'll get the best educational experience. I don't understand the community college situation that you mentioned (poor kid! what a raw deal!) but the second case seems pretty understandable. Rice is a great school. Not that I'm biased...! =)</p>
<p>what's the m stand for in hypsm?</p>
<p>i have a friend who turned down princeton for ucla, but ucla is still an amazing school - it just doesn't have the prestige princeton does.
she told me she hated princeton - i think she thought it was to pretentious. that, and she ADORES ucla.</p>
<p>M stands for MIT</p>
<p>i thought julliard was THE best music school in the world. why would he turn it down if he wanted music?</p>