<p>I turned down Stanford for Maryland because of money.</p>
<p>I know someone who turned down Yale for Univ. of North Florida for sports.</p>
<p>the college counselor at the kids' school told me that someone turned down Williams for Dickinson due to the familiarity factor of her father having gone there.</p>
<p>AllureNY, I really think that is a fine decision if indeed your calling is art, there is no problem with SUNY-Purchase. Any poster, like Slipper, who say SUNY-Purchase isn't a great...better yet, superb Fine Arts school need to be slapped then back-handed. </p>
<p>SUNY-Purchase is a dream come true for any artist and with arguably the strongest alumni network (especially in NYC-metro area) for a Fine Arts program. Don't have any outside doubts, only your own doubts.</p>
<p>Going to Amherst in the fall myself and being very familiar with Purchase, my main comment is that you will be going down a few notches in terms of campus life, dorm quality, and nice college town.</p>
<p>But interms of the change in institutions themselves, that is not a bad decision, but it is a tough one that you will have to make.</p>
<p>i turned down w & l for rhodes, if that counts</p>
<p>I think I would turn down HYP for USC, UCLA, or possibly Stanford (hopefully a scholarship :) )...
of course
haven't been admitted to any
much less applied yet
just saying</p>
<p>Turned down Brown, Duke, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, and Michigan for UVa. :) Money was not an issue, so it all came down to fit. UVa was the only school that truly had the best of both worlds--it offered all the amazing resources of a large university like diverse course offerings, research opporunities, and big-time D1 athletics, but still had a close-knit, LAC, community feel.</p>
<p>I think if I lived on the west coast I would have picked Harvey Mudd over any college, though unfortunately it's 3000 miles away from me, oh well :|</p>
<p>ckmets, you made a wise choice of a college that has everything(location, sports, beauty, safety, etc.) going for it over a college that has great academics & lacrosse but not much else.</p>
<p>A friend turned down Yale for UCLA Regents. Another friend of mine turned down Harvard for Cal Regents.</p>
<p>doesnt really count but i turned down tufts and colgate for conn college</p>
<p>Someone turned down MIT to go to USC. She wanted to studyt film. Now she's a joke to her family.</p>
<p>sum1 in my skool turned down upenn for rennsalear polytechnic institute</p>
<p>"Someone turned down MIT to go to USC. She wanted to studyt film. Now she's a joke to her family."</p>
<p>wow.</p>
<p>I have a friend turning down Yale for University of Virginia full-ride.</p>
<p>Sometimes students will choose LACs over top ivies. When I graduated from my high school, a student chose Williams over Harvard, and another Vassar over Harvard. Two students chose Swarthmore and Harverford over MIT. I chose Amherst over Yale.</p>
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<p>A bit surprising</p>
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<p>Not surprising at all !!! Sure, H has “the name”. But Berkeley is as great a university as H. Besides, he will be among the top dogs @Berkeley (top 5%?). Sometimes, a big fish @Berkeley turns out better than Mr. Who @Harvard. :)</p>
<p>buddy of mine (just graduated college) turned down harvard and yale for ouachita baptist, mostly because hes entering the ministry.</p>
<p>My cousin turned down a HUGE scholarship (probably close to full ride) for MIT to go to Berkeley, but I don't know if he did get a scholarship from them, because he liked the professors at Berkeley better.</p>
<p>This thread is dead. lol</p>
<p>And choosing Berkeley over MIT isn't really a big deal if it was about engineering.</p>