<p>Wharton and Yale (I ended up choosing Wharton!). Harvard is amazing but something about their undergrad environment doesn’t feel right</p>
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<p>Made this decision last year and haven’t looked back! Welcome!</p>
<p>To the other confused admits: Congrats, and take your time with a decision. I waffled between UChicago, Princeton, and Harvard until the morning of May 1st, when I woke up and decided to listen to my pro/con list and pick Princeton. Somehow, the decision you make–no matter what it is–becomes the right one.</p>
<p>Hmm I think Yale right now is beckoning to me, but hey I have a month…that’s enough time to make a decision…I hope.</p>
<p>I’d pick Harvard over all my options, and since I was waitlisted, I hope you guys pick another school over Harvard! :). But in all seriousness, go wherever the fit is the best!</p>
<p>Oxford, LSE, Columbia, UChicago</p>
<p>Maybe Georgetown and UCL(london).</p>
<p>Hey kids! Are YOU smart enough to get into Harvard? Let’s find out! </p>
<p>Here’s a quickie work problem:</p>
<p>Consider two groups of high school seniors.</p>
<p>“Group A” consists of the 75% admitted to Harvard who accept the offer of admission out of the six percent of those who applied to Harvard and received admissions offers. </p>
<p>“Group B” consists of the 100% of those posting on this thread who say they would have declined Harvard’s offer of admission.</p>
<p>QUESTION: What percentage of Group B is included in Group A?</p>
<p>You have 60 seconds, starting now!</p>
<p>100% right?</p>
<p>Sorry, no. I guess it’s Duke for you.</p>
<p>0%</p>
<p>If a person said “I would have declined Harvard if Harvard had accepted me”, it means Harvard did not accept him or her. Hence the answer.</p>
<p>Angier B. Duke Scholarship at Duke!!!</p>
<p>Agreed. Consolation prize to Datalook, who provided the correct answer with an incorrect rationale.</p>
<p>Would turn down Harvard for Princeton, Duke and Stanford.</p>
<p>i’d turn harvard for university of south carolina honors or uva honors. sorry, but harvard is more ‘who you know’ as opposed to ‘who you are’. I’d rather go to an honorable school than one who accepts unworthy kids of politicians than deserving public school applicants.</p>
<p>Actually, your question does not have a definite answer.</p>
<p>Group A: students admitted to Harvard and enrolled Harvard.</p>
<p>Group B: People who say on this board would have turned down Harvard.</p>
<p>People in Group B would not just say “I would have turned down Harvard”. Instead they might say something like one of the following:</p>
<p>1) “I would have turned down Harvard, if Harvard had not given me enough money”.</p>
<p>2) “I would have turned down Harvard if university X had accepted me”.</p>
<p>3) “I would have turned down Harvard if a top state university had accepted me and waived my tuition”.</p>
<p>4) “I would have turned down Harvard if Harvard had accepted me”.</p>
<p>5) Other statements</p>
<p>Usually, people who said 1) would enroll Harvard because Harvard has given them enough money; People who said 2) would enroll Harvard because University X did not accept them, thus Harvard is their best bet. People who said 3) would enroll Harvard because no top state university accepted them and gave them a tuition waive, thus they would enroll Harvard; So, people who said 1), or 2) or 3) all belong to group A.
However, people who said 4) were not admitted to Harvard and thus do not belong to group A. People who said other things may or may not belong to group A.</p>
<p>To summarize, people who said “I would have turned down Harvard” may or may not belong to group A. Since we don’t know the percentage of people who say each type of statement, we do not have a definte answer.</p>
<p>Datalook, nice effort but now you’re overthinking.</p>
<p>UChicago for you.</p>
<p>Tortoise,</p>
<p>based on your question, you are qualified for Yale, not for Harvard though.</p>
<p>Datalook,</p>
<p>Fair enough. I happen to prefer Yale women anyway.</p>
<p>I would turn down harvard in a heartbeat, solely for the fact that i want to go into engineering. Schools such as MIT, Stanford, Caltech, and Princeton would be better choices for me than Harvard</p>
<p>NONE, Harvard was first choice and luckily, and happily, it worked out!</p>
<p>maybe princeton or penn. waitlist and accepted respectively. am waiting for harvard.</p>
<p>you know, it’s funny - i live next to boston and have never toured harvard, so i honestly have no idea how i would like the campus. i did take a class there, but i always got lost, the place is so gosh darn big!</p>