<p>My daughter turned down CMC, Middlebury, Skidmore and Connecticut College for Colgate and pulled out of the waitlists at Penn, WashU and Tufts</p>
<p>Columbia, UMich, BC, and Bucknell, but that was last year...</p>
<p>Bucknell, Connecticut and Ithaca...
Dartmouth rejectee!</p>
<p>i turned down emory, boston college and middlebury</p>
<p>Cornell, Midd, Wesleyan, U of Rochester</p>
<p>I turned down colgate for wes :-P
Congrats you guys, 'gate's awesome. I knew my decision was tough...</p>
<p>I would really appreciate from all of you who turned down Middlebury for Colgate what specifically lead to that decision. I really like both schools and plan on applying to both this Fall. I have visited both schools and love them both. Thanks for the reply.</p>
<p>Middlebury is beautiful - I can see why making a decision between the two can be difficult. It's close enough to Burlington, which is a fun city.</p>
<p>IMHO Colgate students tend to be more business-oriented after graduation and go on to live in the corporate world. Colgate is deep in tradition with an Ivy mentality and has associated with those schools on many levels for a very long time. Even in the early football days, the Colgate-Syracuse rivalry, Colgate-NYU rivalry, Colgate-Brown rivalry...these were all national events. Because of Colgate's early history, I think today it is better-known on a national level. The atmosphere of D-I athletics is very different than at any D-III school and really enhances the campus climate at a smaller school like Colgate. My last opinion is that Colgate does a somewhat better job at recruiting minority students, and the athletics contribute to that. Just my $.02!</p>
<p>Actually chex, I turned down colgate because it didn't seem as warm towards minority students...
It's around 85% white (just a number), and I visited and didn't feel that welcome at all...
That was just my feeling though, other people had a very different visit. Plus recruiting minority's for athletics makes some students think that the only reason they're there is to play sports, I heard that somewhere and it bothered me.
I do have to agree, being DIV. 1 does help in getting a school's name out to the public as Colgate is playing big name schools and it's name is going to be very familiarized with students at the other institutions. That's one of the reasons it was hard for me to turn down colgate, because it'd be fun to watch competitive athletics now and then :-)</p>
<p>Dana, I didn't even apply to middlebury because of size. It's so isolated and there's no one there that it just felt slightly awkward to me to go to such a small school which is why I like the larger LAC's (Colgate, Wes, Lafayette, etc). Then again, I have a friend at Midd who absolutely loves it, his focus is in languages though.</p>
<p>My D turned down Midd because it just seemed too isolated and too cold. I liked the little town and to me, the Mom, cold and snow is cold and snow. She stayed with someone from our town that she knew who is wanting to go abroad this fall. Midd talks about the kids all going abroad, but she wants to go somewhere that isn't on their usual list. It wouldn't be an issue but she said they want her to speak that language exclusively while she is there. She says her language skills aren't that good yet...so she doesn't know if they will approve her financial aid to have her go. My D wants to study abroad, she speaks spanish but doesn't neccessarily want to go to a spanish speaking country. That was a negative to her. The dorms had all sorts of trash around and light bulbs burned out- her friend's take was that the kids didn't care about the things they owned or lived in, it was someone else's problem or they could just pay to replace it. That was her take on it...so Colgate it is!</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. The more I hear and read that I should choose a school that fits me the best the more I believe that there is more than one school that would fit. I have narrowed my choices down to seven or eight schools and I would be happy to go to any one of them. Realistically there are three or four that are on the top of my list. There seems to be strong positives and some negatives for each school. There is no perfect place but one school seems to lead my pack. The next step in the adventure will be the overnights this Fall. I can't wait.</p>
<p>Anymore responses to my post would be appreciated.</p>
<p>I think you've made an amazing decision when you only selected schools that you would be happy at. I know a hierchy exists as even I had one (even though I love where I'm going and it really wasn't my first choice), but even those hierchy's topple when you had 'fluff' applications and applied to some schools which you would hate to go to.</p>
<p>I'll revive this one.....</p>
<p>S's main contender he turned down was Tufts</p>
<p>I had only applied to three: Colgate, Cornell, and Miami U of Ohio. I have a feeling you can tell which one was the safety =P Well, I got rejected by Cornell, so Colgate it is. I didn't like the massiveness of Cornell, so I'm quite happy =D</p>
<p>I only turned down Miami</p>
<p>I almost turned down Wellesley, but the fin. aid ended up being better there.</p>
<p>I'm going to miss those camping opportunities! Have fun at Colgate :)</p>
<p>I turned down Rice, Carnegie Mellon, George Washington, and some others.</p>
<p>Bates, Lafayette, U of Washington at St. Louis</p>
<p>reviving again for the benefit of those considering applying this season.....</p>
<p>not true if you go from syracuse</p>
<p>Son was accepted to: Pitt, Villanova, Lafayette, Johns Hopkins, Penn, Colgate. Waitlisted: Swarthmore and Cornell. He's happy with his choice of Colgate, but it was a struggle to decide, he had some great choices.</p>