<p>carnegie mellon.</p>
<p>CalX: Mainly, Stanford was extremely generous to me in terms of financial aid. Ironically, the reason why a lot of people turn down Stanford - finances - is the reason why I will be going there. Also, many many of the people close to me, even those with strong Berkeley connections - my parents, my mentor (who, as an undergraduate, actually turned down Princeton/Stanford/MIT for Berkeley), my serving ones in church, and even the friends I have at Berkeley - felt that I should go there. And I know that most of these people, especially my mom, didn't tell me that because of the prestige factor.</p>
<p>I don't agree that the reasons people turn down Cal for Stanford in financial. With the merit money I was offered from Stanford it would have been a little less for me to attend Stanford (not by much ) than Cal.
I have a few friends that were admitted to Stanford this year. Two are attending, one was accepted as a Stanford Scholar and the other, he's a pretty shallow guy and is really into the prestige factor.</p>
<p>UPenn! cal was my 2~3rd choice though</p>
<p>I turned down Cal for UCLA. It was a hard decision that I don't regret...yet (?). =)</p>
<p>Turned down UCB for UCLA.</p>
<p>ucsb. i felt that berkeley was too far, too expensive, and too competitive, and ucsb is still pretty good for my major.</p>
<p>NYU Stern. They gave me 10k scholarship and berkeley gave me 0 =(</p>
<p>Congrats to all of you for making the right decision.</p>
<p>Turned down Cal for USC. And apparently so did half the other people on this thread =P</p>
<p>I just turned down berkeley for Davis, because of financial aid. Bit sad, after four months of agonizing anticipation, the opportunity came and went. Go Bears and Aggies!!</p>
<p>Well, you can come visit on the bus to/from Berkeley to/from Davis ever weekday. Sorry it came down to money. :( Hopefully good will come out of it. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, thats true. Maybe a book i'll need "won't" be at davis, so I could have an excuse to take the $5 bus trip. it's all good. :)</p>
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<p>acacia
Member</p>
<p>Acacia
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Southern CA =)
Posts: 610 Turned down Cal for USC. And apparently so did half the other people on this thread =P</p>
<p>5 of 33 posts isn't exactly half... good thing you chose USC! :) Hard to figure why people would choose a school like USC over CAL? Must be $$</p>
<p>I turned it down for UCLA. Going to OHP gave me so much to think about...but I've always thought that if I got into both UCLA and Cal I'd pick UCLA.</p>
<p>What'd you learn at OHP?</p>
<p>That friend going to UCSC over Berkeley is an idiot.</p>
<p>turning down the regent scholarship for Stanford</p>
<p>turned down berkeley for UCDavis. it is a better fit for my personality</p>
<p>What is a "stanford scholar"?</p>