Turned down the Ivies

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of people turn down Harvard?

17%.....the vast majority presumably opt for another HYPS type school. However, a handful each year opt for a state school and miraculously all of those candidates are on this thread.

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I think many doughnut hole families will have to turn down Ivies. It's not that unusual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think many doughnut hole families will have to turn down Ivies. It's not that unusual.

+100.

My kid turned down 3 ivies, went to top school with full scholarship. Still in one of the best programs in her field, doing very well and very happy about her choice.

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Anonymous wrote:I know quite a few people who turned down Ivy's. Not everybody wants to go to those schools.

Then why apply to them?

My kid applied in hopes to get some money. I know they don't give merit based scholarships and we were not qualified at all for financial aid. We saved for each child enough to cover in-state tuition, but the child would have to take the loan to cover the rest of the cost in Ivy. Turned out, one of the schools, UPenn, did offer some money in a form of grant. But it was one year deal vs. a full scholarship from another top (not Ivy) school, so she turned that offer down as well. You truly never know where you are going to be accepted.

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I once read a story about a girl who turned down Yale for Auburn. One of the reasons was for cost. Another was cultural fit which I could understand given that she was from the South.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies don’t have scholarships, so no may anyone turned one down. They do have financial aid, but that is need-based.

They don’t do athletic scholarships but they do award merit scholarships which can be for athletics.

No, they don’t offer merit scholarships either.

I know someone who was recruited to Harvard for crew. They absolutely give out athletic scholarships. This is a myth.

It was probably a financial aid package.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter turned down an Ivy for University of Florida. I think it probably happens more often than people think it does.

Because of cost, a specific program, sport...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid turned done Columbia, UPenn, Dartmouth and higher ranked schools like UChicago for Cornell—the Ivy that had the best program for what he wanted to study—and one of the schools that gets abused around here. I wasn’t pissed. He did what was right for him.

What is your kid studying - Hotel Management or Engineering?

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I turned down an Ivy for Michigan. Michigan seemes more fun and there are programs at Michigan (like the Honors Program and Residential College) that provide lots of individual attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I turned down an Ivy for Michigan. Michigan seemes more fun and there are programs at Michigan (like the Honors Program and Residential College) that provide lots of individual attention.

Are you Sasha Obama?

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies don’t have scholarships, so no may anyone turned one down. They do have financial aid, but that is need-based.

They don’t do athletic scholarships but they do award merit scholarships which can be for athletics.

No, they don’t offer merit scholarships either.

I know someone who was recruited to Harvard for crew. They absolutely give out athletic scholarships. This is a myth.

It was probably a financial aid package.

Agree. https://www.ivycoach.com/the-ivy-coach-blog/ivy-league/ivy-league-scholarships/

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What is a regular school? Harvard and Yale have no scholarships for football, either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think many doughnut hole families will have to turn down Ivies. It's not that unusual.

+1

I know donut hole families that did this. I am from CA and they typically got full merit or athletic scholarships to UC schools.

Ivies do not give sports scholarships but they do give financial aid. One thing to note is that they typically give the same level of financial aid to international applicants (lots of Canadian hockey players on generous financial aid).

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

Dumb and dumber.

you're the dumbest though ... keep buying into the hype

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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.

That's what you think it makes it worth the student debt? Some writing seminars? Some missing comma or capital letters? And learning to put down other people? Yeah, tell yourself it's worth it, may ease your pain.