<p>College2go, it sounds like you are "bashing" WashU to convince yourself that you made the right decision to pay full tuition at MIT rather than accept the free ride you were offered at WashU. Best of luck to you at MIT, I hope you do well in life. Now, just leave WashU alone and get back to your studies!</p>
<p>"WashU is overwhelmingly voted the most overrated school</p>
<p>...I guess the infinite wisdom of College Confidential has finally spoken. I'd better start working on those transfer apps.</p>
<p>A couple of College2go's earlier posts </p>
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Only second rate schools have merit based scholarships.
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Merit scholarships attract only Ivy rejected students.
People with income less than 40K get free ride at Ivies.
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<p>and yet again</p>
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Both schools are second tier Ivy wannabe
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<p>When speaking about Emory and Washington University</p>
<p>I'd say he has a real grudge going on. </p>
<p>Does matter what you call it merit at Emory and WashU or a need based grant at an Ivy, it's all money you do not have to repay. A name is just a name. One person's merit is another's grant. You don't think the Ivy's use this as a tool to attract the students they want just like Emory or WashU.</p>
<p>I wish WashU sent me * more * mail!!! They sent me a couple letters a long time ago, but i generally scrutinized viewbooks and only skimmed letters. If I had a nice glossy book with pics of their lovely campus, then I probably would have applied there instead another school on my list (and one that I'm thinking of in particular happens to be an ivy). Too late now. Hindsight is 20/20.</p>
<p>College2go, if you passed up a full ride to WashU to pay full freight elsewhere because of a small, questionable superiority, I certainly hope that the decisions you make in life are not nearly as immature and short-sighted. Either you delivered a needless and disrespectful blow to your parents' pocket or you put yourself in pointless debt. If grad school isn't on the venue and your choices are between a classically elite school and a merit-scholarship no-namer, and if you can afford it, then the elite school may be a better choice pending other factors. But it appears that you let go of a top-10 full ride for another great top-10 school that has a better layman's rep but not such a better education that it makes sense to burn nearly 200k. I completely agree with nervous1; whether or not you admit it, you are trying to convince yourself that you made the right decision. You plainly didn't. Throw statistics around as you please (these people obviously have answered them all), but your choice was extremely under-informed and based on a naive thought. But the good thing is that people grow up a lot in college, so we won't hold it against you.</p>
<p>Edit: Am I wrong, or is he talking about Ivy rejects while attending a non-Ivy? What happened, bud? Don't green vines mean the world to you?</p>
<p>College2go,</p>
<p>Why would you to apply to a school you found so blatantly overrated?</p>
<p>cube,
"...you let go of a top-10 full ride for another great top-10 school that has a better layman's rep but not such a better education that it makes sense to burn nearly 200k."
Engineering: MIT #1 vs WashU #40. It worths every penny</p>
<p>“According to that ranking, UNC is better ranked than MIT in Aeronautical Engineering.
WashU is the most overrated school, even in Medicine.”</p>
<p>College2go, It seems that you are really obsessed with Wash U! Why are you dedicating too much time writing about how bad you feel is Wash U?<br>
Your behavior is really strange to me, my kids don’t even waste their time talking about the schools they don’t consider going.</p>
<p>college2go, engineering employment opportunities after Wustl and MIT are nearly identical, as are starting salaries (you might get 3-4K/yr. more after MIT as best case scenario). If you were a strong enough candidate at WashU to get full-tuition scholarships, you would be in the top nof your class and that would open additional research and other opportunities at WustL.</p>
<p>Only if you got significant need-based aid or your parents are super-rich was your decision rational.</p>
<p>college2go, let go of this, OK? I think that most people would agree that if you ignore college finance issues, for a career in engineering, MIT is a better choice than WashU. If that is your career goal, you have chosen a great school that "fits" your passion. Stop spending so much of your time on CC surfing for WashU posts to "bash" and go out and pursue your passion. Get involved with all MIT has to offer and make something of yourself. Otherwise, your $200k expense for MIT will turn out to be a very poor investment!</p>
<p>College2go, your story about turning down a full ride to WashU just doesn't add up. </p>
<p>If you indeed attend MIT without any financial aid, and part of your scholarship offer at WashU included a National Merit Scholarship, then that implies that you identified WashU as your first choice school for the NMSQT. </p>
<p>I quote directly from <a href="http://www.nationalmerit.org/Merit_R&I_Leaflet.pdf%5B/url%5D">www.nationalmerit.org/Merit_R&I_Leaflet.pdf</a> : "All National Merit $2500 Scholarships and almost all corporate-sponsored awards are transferable from one regionally-accredited U.S. institution to another, but college-sponsored awards are not..." </p>
<p>Further down the page it states: "Consideration for a college-sponsored Merit Scholarship award is limited to Semifinalists who qualify as Finalists and who also (1) report to NMSC that a sponsor college is their first choice; (2) have applied for admission to the sponsor college; and (3) have not been offered any Merit Scholarship award (corporate-sponsored, National, or another college-sponsored award). No student will receive more than one scholarship offer from NMSC."</p>
<p>So, I see a couple of options:
- The National Merit Scholarship Corporation does not know its own rules.
- You had an amazing change of heart (and perhaps brain) that caused you to switch from choosing WashU as your first-choice school to devoting much of your free time to disparaging it.
- You are a liar and did not receive the offer you claim to have received from WashU.</p>
<p>By the way, it is the Danforth scholarship, not Danfort.</p>
<p>DGute,
Did you just create that user name to reply this post? Maybe s/he is right I didn't get the scholarship because I misspelled Danforth. Well, transfer is always an option. With 34% of aceptation any student from a community college can get in.</p>
<p>"acceptance" might be the word you're searching for</p>
<p>College2go, I certainly didn't mean to imply that you didn't get the scholarship simply because your spelling and grammar are atrocious. I'm sure there are dozens of reasons for that.</p>
<p>Fellas, please believe me when I say that I love reading everyone destroying the arguments, character, and hopefully self-esteem of this person, but eventually we just have to accept that either (s)he will remain a course, unkind nincompoop with very little chance to succeed in anything that demands interpersonal skills in life, or (s)he will grow out of it and we won't need to be bothered by them. In any case, we all know that WashU is a fantastic school, and I think that we've devoted enough attention to the college-take-out-fiend's vendetta. You know how little children are - anything for attention, good or bad. At the very least we've dissected his insecurities; I'd say that it reflects on the potential incomming class's aptitude for psychology and hence the school's rank ;), but (s)he was far too transparent for the excersize to count. Let's cut it off. I'd take your company over her/his any day.
College2go, I understand that in your irrational anger you may feel the need to respond, but don't bother. I won't be reading it. I hold the comments of someone who just wants to put people down unprovoked to mask his own insecurities in very low regard, and there are only so many minutes in a day.</p>
<p>There's a little nifty "ignore user" tool at <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/profile.php?do=editlist%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/profile.php?do=editlist</a> that has cleaned up some threads for me (and made them confusing to follow in the process).</p>
<p>I agree with most. Also, we should be holistic.</p>
<p>TransferGuru, stop bumping old threads.</p>