Turned down the Ivies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The star football player and straight A student in Oceanside NY turned down a full scholarship from Harvard and Yale to go to a regular school. Has that ever happened before?

Would you be pissed if kid did that?

There are no sport’s scholarships in the Ivy League.

There aren’t supposed to be, but maybe there actually are.

They have booster scholarships.

[Anonymous]

The data shows that his outcomes will be virtually identical — NBD at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The star football player and straight A student in Oceanside NY turned down a full scholarship from Harvard and Yale to go to a regular school. Has that ever happened before?

Would you be pissed if kid did that?

There are no sport’s scholarships in the Ivy League.

There aren’t supposed to be, but maybe there actually are.

They have booster scholarships.

Can the Harvard National Scholarship be used as a booster scholarship?

http://www.scholarshipsgrants.us/category/scholarships/

[Anonymous]

OP he is a star football player but it was an Academic scholarship with wink wink he play football.

[Anonymous]

OP kid is going Springfield college with a 68 percent acceptance rate. Which is why HS was shocked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who turned down Harvard for Amherst and one who turned down Yale for William and Mary.

Dumb and dumber.

They have both turned out to be very successful.

[Anonymous]

I turned down ivy for a state college. I had to pay my own way and looking at the cost difference made it a no brainer. I was going for engineering so a ivy school wasn’t going to give me a salary leg up that business would give. Most employers of engineers really don’t care where you got your degree as long as it is a known and accredited university. I worked two jobs in the summer of 60 hours a week and worked through the school year to come out without any student debt in 2009.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I turned down ivy for a state college. I had to pay my own way and looking at the cost difference made it a no brainer. I was going for engineering so a ivy school wasn’t going to give me a salary leg up that business would give. Most employers of engineers really don’t care where you got your degree as long as it is a known and accredited university. I worked two jobs in the summer of 60 hours a week and worked through the school year to come out without any student debt in 2009.

Perhaps if you’d gone to the Ivy you would have learned to write more effectively.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The star football player and straight A student in Oceanside NY turned down a full scholarship from Harvard and Yale to go to a regular school. Has that ever happened before?

Would you be pissed if kid did that?

There are no sport’s scholarships in the Ivy League.

There aren’t supposed to be, but maybe there actually are.

They have booster scholarships.

Really? Can you link to some?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The star football player and straight A student in Oceanside NY turned down a full scholarship from Harvard and Yale to go to a regular school. Has that ever happened before?

Would you be pissed if kid did that?

There are no sport’s scholarships in the Ivy League.

There aren’t supposed to be, but maybe there actually are.

They have booster scholarships.

Really? Can you link to some?

Lol.....booster scholarships. I much stupid on this thread.

[Anonymous]

DS turned down an ivy and 2 other top 20 schools for a BS/MD program. It was the right choice for him.

[Anonymous]

I thought ivies dont give scholarships?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought ivies dont give scholarships?

You thought correctly. Hence the lack of evidence from those claiming otherwise.

[Anonymous]

[Not true. This person did not have financial need for a full ride. She received what essentially amounts to an athletic scholarship — she told me.

You really should not believe everything you are told. I have several kids who attended Ivies and played sports. There are no athletic or merit scholarships, only financial aid for families with demonstrated need. Your friend must be too embarrassed to tell you they qualify for financial aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not Harvard but my swimmer turned down Penn to attend a flagship that has much more competitive swim team and is a top public college. Loves everything about it, is thriving.

It’s not hard to turn down Penn, though.

I think your ideas about Penn are dated. It had a yield of 70% last year and more than 40,000 kids were rejected; I'm sure the vast majority of them would have loved a slot.

She went to a private h/s where attendance at an Ivy league or similar school was the goal for most kids and probably job metric for college counselors (one of those schools that publishes college destinations for the class in the alumni magazine each summer). It was defin. a unique move and I was proud of her for following her own path.