<p>What exactly do they see in Olin?</p>
<p>I suppose it's the money. I don't know - if they got free rides to MIT, Caltech, or HYPS, would they still go to Olin?...</p>
<p>I'm more wondering just what people see in Deep Springs. Strange place.</p>
<p>Being in the middle of the desert- hot and sweaty - with all guys seems more like a nightmare to me than a place to go to college. To each his own, I guess.</p>
<p>a friend of mine whos also a national merit finalist and a 1600'er is rejecting Princeton and Harvard for Arizona State ( which actually pays him money to go to that college)</p>
<p>If Deep Springs had a program for girls, I would TOTALLY apply.</p>
<p>Deep Springs teaches a person diligence and I would argue matures them. It also makes them learn to budget their time and work for the community.</p>
<p>It's stuff you can learn anywhere, but I think an isolated environment like that is likely to accelerate it.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if this counts, but a senior I know is turning down Harvard for Princeton. Another senior at my high school is turning down UPenn and Columbia for Stanford.</p>
<p>I turned down Harvard for Duke. But that's cause I got rejected from Harvard.</p>
<p>haha, that's funny amused</p>
<p>I have a friend who turned down a free ride from Caltech to go to New Mexico Tech instead. The undergrad atmosphere didn't appeal to her much, and she's very happily studying physics in a department where she's not dismissed as a dime a dozen-type student.</p>
<p>you know what the girls say about caltech- the odds are good..but the goods are odd.</p>
<p>Nope that's just any techie school. ;-)</p>
<p>Turned down Princeton, Columbia, Brown - PLME, and Dartmouth for Northwestern HPME</p>
<p>wondrlst, that's hilarious! I know someone who turned down Stanford for a state school.</p>
<p>LOL you guys are so funny i laughed out loud
"I turned down Harvard for Duke. But that's cause I got rejected from Harvard."
"you know what the girls say about caltech- the odds are good..but the goods are odd."<br>
=)</p>
<p>I know a senior who turned down Duke, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins for a guarentee at the Miami Medical School following 2-3 years Miami undergrad.</p>
<p>I'm a freshman at UC Berkeley right now (I love love love it), but I turned down Yale and Columbia to come here. Never regretted it once, but a big part of my decision was yes, the money, and the fact that UC Berkeley would be sort of close to home (I'm from Hawaii).</p>
<p>Also know 2 seniors who turned down Harvard undergraduate for 6/7 year medical school programs at Miami and St. Louis.</p>
<p>However, for me Harvard undergraduate is my number one choice.</p>
<p>i turned down upenn and uva for uga honors. i promise i'll be succesful somehow...</p>
<p>I'll likely turn down Berkeley for UCLA.</p>