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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of students turn down Ivies for MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Vanderbilt, Rice, Northwestern, CalTech, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Williams, Pomona, Amherst, Michigan, Berkeley, Texas, not to mention all the schools that offered significant merit aid. It's actually quite common to turn down paying $400,000 for Harvard or Penn and choosing the free ride at the state flagship instead. I know a couple of STEM kids at UMD that did exactly that. [/quote]

It's rare to turn down Harvard.[/quote]

15-20% of Harvard's admitted students turn it down. Yes, that's a high yield, but not rare to turn it down.[/quote]

But, you missed the real issue as many who turn down Harvard do so to attend another Ivy League school; this thread is about turning down an Ivy League school (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, U Penn) to attend a non-Ivy League school.

Would be a more interesting thread if it discussed whether or not those who turned down an Ivy League school to attend a non-Ivy had any regrets 10 years after graduating college/university.

Also, this thread should expand the list of Ivy League schools from 8 to 10 to include Stanford & MIT.[/quote]

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