<p>figgy's prolly right</p>
<p>One of the top seniors at our school last year turned down Northwestern for the University of Kansas.</p>
<p>Not a stupid decision but one I wouldn't have made. A senior this year from my school got a full ride at Johns Hopkins but went to Cornell instead with not that much aid. I guess money wasn't a huge issue for him. He got in becuase he's a great runner so maybe that added something into the decision</p>
<p>My sister turned down Wharton at Upenn for UNC-Chapel Hill (OOS) and she's a business major. It seems weird on paper but she loves UNC so it turned out very well</p>
<p>That's because Cornell rox! And it's D-1. That's interesting w/ your sister, but congrats to her for following her heart.</p>
<p>well unc has a top-notch business school. i'm not surprised by your sister's decision at all. the unc undergrad school is highly ranked, and the grad school of business is 3rd in the nation behind yale and harvard</p>
<p>Yeah really, Kenan-Flagler is an AMAZING school.</p>
<p>Yale is not real highly ranked for business grad school anywhere I have seen nor is UNC. In us news Yale is 15th and UNC 20th.</p>
<p>Yeah UNC is not even close to #3 for business at the grad level, its around 18-22 annually. Love the school though :)</p>
<p>I've posted alot about why I left Columbia but I think a lack of community was the biggest reason.</p>
<p>My friend's brother chose UCLA over Stanford, although I wouldn't consider that stupid.</p>
<p>Perhaps with finances in mind</p>
<p>I wouldn't consider that stupid either. Every man has his reasons...</p>
<p>our val turned down Harvard for Duke, and my brother applied transfer from the Air force academy to Columbia and UNC Chapel Hill, and turned down Columbia for UNC.</p>
<p>um, what have you got against north carolina grim? ur from there! id much rather go to duke than harvard (and no im not a harvard reject, and im a tarheel :)), and unc undergrad is pretty darn good. there's a lot to be said for our schools!</p>
<p>That's true, UNC is a great school, as is Duke. But UNC is not Columbia, and Duke students are ridiculously pretentious without reason. I understand when students from Princeton or Yale are snobby, but not when they go to Duke. Besides, all the kids I know who are going to Duke used Duke as a safety. Our val got rejected from stanford, my friend got rejected from yale, etc. Dook sucks... haha I would probably be going to UNC if I did not get into my top school. I just think that it's stupid to pass up ivies for those schools.</p>
<p>well i'd say duke has some goood programs. there's a lot of negative stuff to be said about the atmosphere at harvard, and unfortunately the fact is that it IS tons more pretentious than duke (harvard people: please don't kill me, i know many of you don't fit the idea I got when i stayed at harvard). ivy isn't everything, especially when the "lower" school is duke. good school! i do kind of see your point with columbia though. but even I view it as a bad school to go to for undergrad, if you're a kind of person who gets lost easily. not that a big state school like unc is any better, but hey</p>
<p>I'd much rather go to UNC than Columbia (even though my mom went there) and probably over Duke too. UNC is everything I like in a school. Great sports, Great academics, nice weather, not too far away from home, Difficult academics, but not insane (a la UChi, Wake, etc.). Nice area...I could go on.</p>
<p>My dad, actually, got a full scholarship from Harvard, defered matriculating for two years to travel, and then dropped out of Harvard to go to a local community college and ended up at UMass Amherst. I'm sure he had a really good reason for this, but I have no idea what it could possibly be.</p>
<p>Maybe Harvard revoked your dad's scholarship for being absent for two years. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Madourd
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, and look at him now ;)</p>
<p>My cousin went to Duke instead of Harvard. Made my uncle real mad, but my dad was happy, because he also went to Duke, hehehe</p>