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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]

Not for engineering or CS. There are a lot of schools that are stronger than Harvard in those majors. Plus Ivy schools don't offer merit. There are many, many UMC families who are reconsidering paying $100,000 a year at Ivy schools in favor of schools where they can get merit. At this price point, everyone is trying to decide what's worth it and what's not. And engineering at Harvard or Yale is very much not worth it.  [/quote]

You get admitted to Harvard college and are free to choose any major. You also have the option of taking classes at MIT.[/quote]

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