<p>Wait until you hear from Princeton. You only have one life.
The financial question is what your parents would spend the money on instead. A second home? Travel? Jewelry? Stuff up their retirement accounts? If your family qualifies for $0 financial aid according to Princeton, these are the typical options for folks with their resources.
I’m sure that the Morehead has much prestige instate. Don’t be blinded by the instate goggles. Big fish in a small pond or open yourself up to the ocean?
I hope you have the choice.</p>
<p>I believe the Morehead is nationally recognized and I understand one of the benefits is the large network it will open up for you in your life after college. Many Morehead recipients happily forego opportunities at Ivy League schools for this particular scholarship.</p>
<p>Take the Moorehead. You’ll never get the kind of summer opportunities and the time to take advantage of them again. Princeton has nothing like it to offer you, and you will have much better prospects as far as post grad work coming out of UNC at the top rather than going somewhere where there is a curve—just look at their bad rate of law school admissions since instituting that ridiculous policy. And studies have shown that people who are admitted to Ivies but go to state schools do just as well financially as grads from the Ivies.
Plus, you’ll be much happier at Chapel Hill rather than going somewhere where half the freshman end up getting mental health care for depression.</p>
<p>See, the thing is, if you leave the matter where it is now and don’t pursue the problem further, you will never know what you missed at Princeton. Some of us could help you separate fact from fiction, but you have to ask for that. As it is, you will never know who you could have been if you had gone to Princeton. People think that the worst is rejection. It isn’t. The worst is that you will never know enough to regret the choice.</p>
<p>Half the freshmen getting mental health care for depression? I somehow find that hard to believe.</p>
<p>In my opinion, you should just wait. I know two weeks seems like very little time to decide, but how can you decide when you don’t know all your options yet? If you wait, and are accepted, you can always elect to decline Princeton’s acceptance in favor of the Morehead.</p>
<p>Wait till princeton’s decisions come out!!</p>
<p>[Admission</a> rate rises to 9.79 percent for Class of 2013 - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/01/23213/]Admission”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/01/23213/)</p>
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<p>seems like someone else did the same thing as OP.</p>
<p>Or maybe that’s the OP? A Prince writer was probably reading these forums and decided to send her a private message requesting an interview.</p>
<p>Morehead is a great choice. My brother over 30 years ago had the same choice. Went to UNC on an athletic scholarship rather than Princeton without one. Went on to get a Phd in econ and is very renowned (and doing well even in this economy) in the investment industry. All American athlete too - Carolina’s athletic programs are in most cases national class and no doubt he benefited from them. He is obviously doing fine.</p>
<p>OP’s from NC, but the person in the article was from Atlanta</p>
<p>nope, that’s not me, but i’m glad there’s at least one other person in the same boat!</p>
<p>means you got into Princeton too? congrats! :D</p>
<p>thanks! i’m a little worried i made the wrong choice, but i’m sure i’d be feeling like that either way. i’m the kind of person who’s rarely 100% sure about anything. and there’s always opportunity cost. i know people who have made both decisions and don’t know a single person who regrets it. my friend told me there’s no wrong decision so hopefully he’s right!</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a wrong decision, in spite of a grumpy earlier post of mine.
No reason to look back at all.</p>