<p>if a person turned down UM for MSU and their excuse was size, they got rejected by UM and are too afraid to admit it.</p>
<p>AcceptedAlready, our smarty pants friend was jeering a school where many professionals have studied and even many Ivy professors have probably studied...
I was calling her horrible in jest, just like she was calling her 'friends' alternative bad.
The truth remains that some schools, UChicago being one of them, care a lot more about its undergrads than harvard does. We're talking undergrad here, grad programs have no bearing on this topic.</p>
<p>BTW, Last time I checked Wharton was number 1 for business. Please correct me if I'm wrong.</p>
<p>My point remains, that deciding to attend UChicago, even if it was picked over Harvard, is not and will not ever be a stupid college decision which is what the author of the comment was suggesting by placing it on this thread. That's as far from the truth as you can get. The ivies and UChicago are in the same league. And that's the truth, and you know it :-)</p>
<p>Sorry for editing:</p>
<p>If Harvard B school and other grad programs are unable to be matched, then why are the numbers coming down on fortune 500?</p>
<p>I'm not dissing the big H by any means. To be fair, I should state the following.</p>
<p>I'm a UChicago reject, not a Harvard one (hehe, I never applied to harvard).</p>
<p>-According to US News-</p>
<p>Business Grad Schools:</p>
<p>1: Harvard
2: Stanford
3: UPENN (Wharton)</p>
<p>I was suprised about it a couple weeks ago too...</p>
<p>I eat my words...
(mmm mmm good!)</p>
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<p>No, I was referring to people who WERE accepted to U-M. They were telling U-M why they elected to decline their offer of admission.</p>
<p>Sounds to me like they were just making something up to tell them.</p>
<p>In most cases, students who turn down Michigan in favor of MSU are brainwashed by their Spartan communities...or worse yet, incapable of being brainwashed, were forced to chose MSU at gunpoint! hehe!!!</p>
<p>this isnt what this post is talking about but this kid i know had 3 generation legacy at Yale and a family that donated a good deal of money...and he decides to burn out and winds up at BU GSP.</p>
<p>BU isn't Yale...but that isn't really a burn out school lol</p>
<p>BU GSP (General Studies...aka 2 more years of high school)...not even BU.</p>
<p>OOOOOO that's like one of those things where the college tells you if you do more years of prep they'll take you? I think I heard about something like that with a kid n Yale.</p>
<p>Its for "kids with potential to do well in college after some guidance".</p>
<p>hahahhahah</p>
<p>Ya someone I know got that from Yale (a wrestler), but he turned it down for a lower tier state school a town away.....</p>
<p>i almost went to univeristy of tulsa because of the full ride offer. thank god i visited, because it was very lacking of asian culture and very jesusy. and i'm pretty much a buddhist fob. so it was an almost huge mistake.</p>
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<p>Perhaps. But given the context, U-M had every reason to believe their sincerity (even though their reason sounded pretty unbelievably).</p>
<p>The valedictorian from our large public high school applied to only five schools: Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Penn. She was rejected from Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell. She was waitlisted at Columbia and Penn and I think later rejected from those schools also. She then applied to Hofstra late (rolling admissions) and will be attending this fall.</p>
<p>Now that is dumb. In this day and age who would do that!!</p>
<p>(insert that Carlos Mencia "duh-duh-duhhh" sound here)</p>
<p>The first one is about a straight-A student, the valedictorian of her class. She applied to 7 schools, 3 Ivies and 4 schools that she could have gotten into easily with much worse grades. She didn't apply to anywhere in the middle, and was rejected at every single school. She wasn't good enough for the Ivies, but the other schools thought that she was using them as her safety schools and didn't offer her anything either. I don't know what happened to her.</p>
<p>My friend Jay got into a few pretty good schools, including RIT which is where he really wanted to go. He's really close to his dad, though, and his dad wanted him to go to Rider (which is local). To make his dad happy Jay decided to go to Rider, even though he had his heart set on RIT.</p>
<p>what I don't like to see is when a student turns down a top rated school for a lesser instate because the parents (who have the money) are too cheap to fork over the tuition. A Hummer is more important than an education, apparently.</p>