<p>I loved WndL, but I eventually turned down this scholarship. Did anyone else on here turn down the full ride, or am I the only a**hole?</p>
<p>i didnt get the johnson, but i turned down a full ride robert e lee scholarship. I feel really bad since i loved so many things about W&L, but you’re not alone guynameded.</p>
<p>I turned down the Johnson. W&L wasn’t the right fit for me, but still it was a hard decision to make - turning down money is never easy. :(</p>
<p>Where did all of you end up? How do you feel about your decisions now?</p>
<p>from searching through post histories, i can tell you that apparently guynameded ended up at yale, mesquite_girl ended up at the University of Alabama, and pekingnese ended up at wellesley. i think it might be a good idea to PM/email them, as they probably aren’t looking at this forum often.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, my son accepted the Robert E. Lee scholarship from last year’s group. He loves the school even more than he expected!</p>
<p>it does seem like a freakish number of johnson/major scholarship recipients on this site turned w&l down. i wonder what the yield is for johnson acceptees. any ideas?</p>
<p>In `09 nearly 2100 applied. There were 211 finalists, and 78 winners, with 38 being accepted.</p>
<p>so wait. <50% actually accepted the johnson?! or did 38 actually WIN the johnson? i was wondering about matriculation rates for johnson acceptees, but if i look on w&l’s website i guess that will answer my question.</p>
<p>EDIT: i counted 21 actual johnson scholars on the website. so 17 must have turned the scholarship down, by these numbers? probably for ivies or other scholarships?</p>
<p>It is my understanding that 38 of those offered (78) accepted. W&L’s goal is 44, which is 10% of each incoming class.</p>
<p>ouch! they didn’t meet their goal then! i’m surprised that <50% of the accepted took w&l up on its offer. i’m not sure i will if offered, but it’s so tempting and generous!</p>
<p>Probably because it is offered mostly to Ivy-like students who got also into better schools.</p>
<p>true. but i am into a “better” school (yale, which coincidentally is my first choice) and may be poached by such an offer. then again, i will have to take out debt, i think, which may not be the situation for many others. much as i LOVE yale, it’d be liberating to graduate debt-free, and i’m not sure i’ll be able to do that. [i haven’t gotten my estimate yet, due to delayed documents.]</p>
<p>Some of those students probably didnt have to pay even at Ivies or had enogh moneay not to care.</p>
<p>^yes, as i said, many students probably didn’t have debt concerns as i do. lucky people.</p>
<p>FYI, my son also got into numerous schools with more widely-known academic reputations (I hesitate to say better schools, but the likes of Duke, UNC, UVa) and in the end elected to take the W&L scholarship. He plans to go to grad school (pre-med) and not only is he saving the $ we’d saved for college but W&L’s med school admission rates are stellar. Like others, he’s loved it more than expected. Seems I’ve heard some stats on the selections of those students who were offered but declined the Johnson and the vast majority are in Ivy-tier schools.</p>
<p>Those who decline go to a variety of schools (Vanderbilt, UVA, Wash U, Tufts, Wake, DUke, etc), not just Ivies. W&L is a very specific kind of school, and while it works for many does not suit all. Some kids go places which don’t even offer that much money simply because of fit.</p>