<p>Now that our deposit is in (or should be? lol), what schools did you turn down for BC? </p>
<p>Personally, I turned down NYU and Lehigh.</p>
<p>villanova, wake forest, gwu (gave me a 15k scholarship) and U of Toronto</p>
<p>Why would you turn down NYU for BC?</p>
<p>D turned down NYU for many reasons: no real campus, no perceived school spirit, no big-time college sports, expense of NY city, dorms spread out over the city, etc. She was also interested in some specific programs at BC, which were unavailable at NYU.</p>
<p>It is not surprising at all that she turned down NYU for BC...NYU is just a better version of GW and BU.</p>
<p>My son turned down GW , Villanova, Udel , Northeastern</p>
<p>I turned down Northeastern, University of Miami, Fordham, Bard, and Penn State</p>
<p>I turned down NYU for BC because I got into the honors program at BC and they are otherwise two academically comparable schools even though NYU has a slight edge with regard to name recognition. Plus, NYU has no campus,whereas BC's campus is amazing, and the people at BC are more friendly.</p>
<p>Nobody should be surprised at somebody turning down any school to attend BC. What other school is in a safe neighborhood but overlaps a great city, has top-notch Division I teams in the 3 major sports (football, basketball, and hockey), has a beautiful campus, is fraternity-free, has a wide variety of excellent programs, and has a close-knit student-faculty atmosphere? No other school anywhere has that. Stanford is a long hike from San Francisco; Duke and Virginia are a long hike from any great city; Northwestern's, Columbia's and Harvard's sports teams suck; Notre Dame is a ways from Chicago; Wisconsin, UCLA, Berkeley, and Michigan are quite big; Penn and USC are in rought neighborhoods.</p>
<p>I turned down colgate, oberlin, and vanderbilt for BC (last year, but I have never posted this before) and I do not regret my decision.</p>
<p>i turned down umich among others</p>
<p>I turned down Michigan Honors (w/$10,000/yr Michigan Experience Merit Award), Colgate (Benton Scholar),Vanderbilt, Lehigh, University of Richmond, University of Wisconsin( Madison), and Emory. And I cannot wait to join the B.C. Class of 2012. Go Eagles!!!!</p>
<p>^ Damn! How much is BC giving you?</p>
<p>Not a red cent, Reddune. I just fell in love with B.C. I just felt it was a strong fit. I confess, I do think about the cost and some of the perks I was offered at other schools. Still no regrets.</p>
<p>^ good for you. You are going to love it!</p>
<p>anniev i totally respect u. I would've picked Michigan though.. lol.</p>
<p>well there wasnt something like this last year..</p>
<p>i turned down villanova, lehigh, penn state, and delaware (wouldve cost me only $10k per year). seems like a lot of the same schools are being named. you guys must be so excited =)</p>
<p>I turned down Penn State honors, Notre Dame, Washington and Lee, and waitlists at UVa</p>
<p>Not that it's a spectactular school, but my son turned down U Mass, Amherst's Honor's program (with two scholarship's). It would have cost about $5,000 a year to go there, but he didn't want anything to do with it. Everyone thinks were insane for coming up with the $200,000 to send him to BC instead, but I think he'll have the best experience there and what the hay, it's only money! Yikes!</p>
<p>i turned down michigan, gwu (10,000 scholarship), umd college park (cp scholars), bu, pc, loyola md (25,000), american (15,000), syracuse, msu honors , indiana, nova, c of c... the only really tough choices for me where michigan and gwu... i have no regrets though, i have a good friend at michigan and ive visited a lot.. its just far too large for me and im not into the idea of greek life and thats huge there... no regrets! bc is sick.</p>