<p>Is the million before or after tax?
Assuming it is before tax, the government would most likely end up with a third of the money.</p>
<p>Its a hard decision then. Dream college could equal financial success which might outweight 666K</p>
<p>Now, I do not understand what the rejection from dream school means. Like do you get your second choice? Do you have to go instate? If you get your second choice, insert Dartmouth for ASU in the following story.</p>
<p>Starting in this thread I was going to say admission over the money but:</p>
<p>Take the million, go to ASU for a year or two, transfer to like Brown with a 4.0 GPA and 1,250,000+ with interest as a junior. (full ride+ at ASU and my dad has got law school covered)</p>
<p>At graduation I will have a degree from Brown, probably a 3.9 if not 4.0 GPA due to the ease of ASU and the awsome grading system at Brown, and probably 1,500,000+ at this point.</p>
<p>Are you kidding? With school covered by my dad, I am set for life. Probably go to a top 3 law school with that GPA and work my ass off for the LSAT.</p>
<p>So, for all of you who say admission because of the priceless nature of education, experience, etc. I understand your mentality, because I share it, but to not do the above plan is stupid. So stupid in fact, you do not deserve to be admitted into your dream school.</p>
<p>I'd take the dream college. I personally would get a lot more satisfaction out of having the respect that comes with going to a great school than the $1 million.</p>
<p>I also think it's really easy for people at CC to want the $$ because many here can get into their dream school anyway.</p>
<p>amen, i say to that. <em>looks at the 'what are my chances' threads</em></p>
<p>But that violates the rules of the game. Can't be admitted.</p>
<p>MONEY. The latter implies that I am not qualified to begin with and only got in because of this game. If I am, indeed, not qualified then I shouldn't attend at all and thereby cheat someone else out of a seat s/he deserves. Plus, there's always the transfer option and NO DEBT post-graduation.</p>
<p>Admission to my dream college. No doubts.</p>
<p>id take penn state :P
its more of a personal goal</p>
<p>I'm already turning down any one of my "dream schools" due to money to stay in state and go for free, so yeah I'd take the money and go to the same school I'm going to now.</p>
<p>DREAM SCHOOL, hands down. I would rather have a degree from a school that's worth the paper it's written on.</p>
<p>wait what? a degree worth the same as a piece of paper? money is worth more than the piece of paper its printed on, why not chose that?</p>
<p>lol im just having fun, id choose dream school. but then i'd still have to pay for it. this is just admission after all, you still have to pay for the rest. besides, what if in the future im trying to get this great ceo job, because i went to harvard/wharton etc. i get the job and its multi-million dollar salery instead of getting rejected because i had a not so prestigious degree. oppertunity cost man, its all econ.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but anyone who would take the school over the money VASTLY over estimates the worth of the name on their diploma. Do you really think that a company hires a CEO based on the UNDERGRADUATE diploma you have, and not based off of the work you do in your career? I would have been competitive to get into NYU or maybe even Northwestern, but I didn't even bother applying because I know straigt off that the education is not worht 40k a year when I can go to University of Florida for free (with NMF), yet some of you people are saying that it's not only worth 40k a year, but 250k a year!!!</p>
<p>Take the ****ing money, go to a decent ug and spend your cash going to wharton for grad school you morons, and then maybe do some work and not just expect the name on your diploma to carry you trhough life.</p>
<p>well one millino dollars isn't a lot u know. Besides, whoever said i had to pay for my dream college? If i get in i know that a scholarship committee is going to pay all four years for my educaiton.</p>
<p>million, then i wouldnt need to go to college.</p>
<p>i'd take the top school...</p>
<p>"anyhow, if i went to a place like yale, i'd (hopefully!) be financially secure for the rest of my life."</p>
<p>One million!</p>
<p>Pff...anyone can win a million dollars. Getting into dream college is much more rewarding.</p>
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Do you really think that a company hires a CEO based on the UNDERGRADUATE diploma you have
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Amazing how some people are so nearsighted. Getting a degree at a top college is the equivalent to an investment. If you don't do anything with it, it won't be worth much.</p>
<p>Dream school. A million dollars cannot offer me what a school can, and I gain little from the experience of having money thrown at me without doing anything to earn it, whereas from college, I am going to develop the traits that will serve me for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>$1 million. I'll probably still get into a good school. Does it matter whether I get into my #1 choice or my #3 choice? Not that much. Does it matter if my school is ranked #1 or #20? Not really. Either way I'll go to a great school and get a great education. $1 million is not what it used to be but it is still a LOT. Think I'll buy my parents a house for all the work they put in raising me. Plus they wouldn't have to work so hard now.</p>