What would you choose 1 million dollars or an admission to your dream college?

Applying to College
61

<p>I'd rather be vacationing in Maui than sitting in some lecture hall</p>

62

<p>I'd take the admission, no joke - one million isn't actually that much these days - unless one invests it..</p>

63

<p>I'd take the million. That's easy. </p>

<p>I already got into my "dream" school anyway. So that's an easy choice.</p>

64

<p>I would take the million, immediately rescind my application to Yale, and head on down to UT.</p>

65

<p>I will definitely choose Upenn</p>

66

<p>Columbia over a million, easily!</p>

67

<p>I'd take the million dollars and head to Michigan!</p>

<p>Hail to the Victors!</p>

68

<p>The million of course. The truth is most people can have a good college experience anywhere, not just their "dream school," although it may have certain things that make it special. If you're miserable as a person and go to your dream school, chances are you will still be miserable.</p>

69

<p>If you are miserable, and someone handed you a million dollars, will that make you not miserable?</p>

70

<p>1 million</p>

<p>10 char</p>

71

<p>Hmm...would I be able to use the million to pay for Stanford? Or would I have to give up my admission...though, at this point, admission without the million would have the same result as non-admission.</p>

<p>Either way, I made my choice earlier in the thread.</p>

72

<p>Basically, what this guy is asking is, what would you rather say, "I went to Harvard" or "I went to Hawaii." It's not about what you actually do there, it's all about the reaction people get from what you say. Oh my GOD, you went to HARVARD. OHHHHHH.</p>

73

<p>hey, i am not a guy</p>

74

<p>use the million to buy thousand acres of land and make more millions off of that...then buy more land and you get the picture...then years latter..I can become the sponser of my dream school</p>

75

<p>28-12 so far for the million</p>

<p>Oh, and fermented, around here you'd be lucky to get 2 acres for that million dollars.</p>

76

<p>a million. are you crazy?
having a major help in getting my life set up or having bragging rights? college is college. I'd go to UMass Boston instead of Harvard for that money.</p>

77

<p>I don't think the OP was stating that someone who accepted the $1 million could not ever go to college. I would have framed the choice a little differently:</p>

<p>$1 million tax-free vs. guaranteed admission to your dream school with a four-year full-ride </p>

<p>I still would go for the cash and would simply attend college somewhere, even if it didn't turn out to be my dream school. </p>

<p>That would be the best of both worlds for a 'po' gsp like me.</p>

78

<p>well considering the inflation rates and the increasing cost of housing i don't think 1 million is enough. If i had enough money to buy a house in a decent area where the prices r increasing, i would choose that money. Probably the money to buy about 2 houses? about 5 - 10 million?
if i was given like 1000 shares of astock of a bottle-cap company (i heard that their stock never goes down b/c they own the bottle-cap patent and they r the only ones producing) which i think is like 30000 dollars per share and some royalty on some microsoft product or those 5-10 million dollars, wait 5-10 millino euros. Euros are much more expensive. then i'll choose the money.
But otherwise top college. At least the top college prices aren't going up as fast as house prices r.</p>

79

<p>the 1 million duh...and then go to my top college by making a nice donation</p>

80

<p>Dream college. I'm emotionally attached and desperate.</p>