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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Purdue, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Auburn, 
Georgia, North Carolina, Clemson, Florida.

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Penn State is HUGE at our highly ranked public with the top stat kids. Two chose it over another top 20 school they got in to (Cornell and Duke). Maybe it's just at our school, but the trend seems to be that they go to Penn State because their APs transfer and they start out as sophomores. Most of these kids are getting an integrated masters in four years. It's spreading like wildfire seemingly. [/quote]

How much merit aid did they get? [/quote]

For the kids that got into Schreyers Honors College, they get 5K per year. Some of them are also merit finalists so an additional 2500 a year. Tuition is 17K and room and board about the same (we are in state). So that brings tuition down to about 10K per year for in state students. Also once you live off campus sophomore year the room and board goes way down. Our counselor seems to make sure that all of those top stat kids apply to the honors college (it's a TON of essays).

Our son chose Penn State over Cornell because he has 15 APs and he will start as a second semester sophomore. This will allow him to double major AND get an integrated masters at the "normal" pace. He is really excited about it. [/quote]

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