Anonymous
06/15/2025 02:55
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:My son's classmate turned down Yale for Notre Dame.
Yikes
Anonymous
06/14/2025 22:49
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At our school in Texas, 3 kids turned down Ivies for UK schools: Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge.
Turning down an ivy for st Andrews is a bit surprising.
We know someone who turned down Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton to go to Rutgers.
So that is not surprising? As a parent of a kid at St Andrews and one at Dartmouth I can tell you my kids t St Andrews turned down Brown for St Andrews and several of her friends made similar choices depending on their major. Stop generalizing everything.
Going to an American rich kid party school that is essentially just the English version of Tulane over an ivy is surprising. St Andrews is nowhere near the level of Oxbridge.
You are an idiot. And it is not surprising at all. English version of Tulane? You must be a moron.
Touchy!
Anonymous
06/14/2025 21:47
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Oh boy OP. You're going to miss a chance to brag and it seems you' ll need to explain your kid's choice forever... "Let me make sure you know he got into Ivy, but he chose UMBC instead because of his major". Some won't care, some won't believe you, and others will pity you because you couldn't afford it.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 18:44
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At our school in Texas, 3 kids turned down Ivies for UK schools: Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge.
Turning down an ivy for st Andrews is a bit surprising.
We know someone who turned down Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton to go to Rutgers.
So that is not surprising? As a parent of a kid at St Andrews and one at Dartmouth I can tell you my kids t St Andrews turned down Brown for St Andrews and several of her friends made similar choices depending on their major. Stop generalizing everything.
Going to an American rich kid party school that is essentially just the English version of Tulane over an ivy is surprising. St Andrews is nowhere near the level of Oxbridge.
You are an idiot. And it is not surprising at all. English version of Tulane? You must be a moron.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 17:59
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Turned down Cornell for Vanderbilt.
Who wouldn’t?
Peer schools, so not shocking.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:45
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It's rare to turn down Harvard.
15-20% of Harvard's admitted students turn it down. Yes, that's a high yield, but not rare to turn it down.
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.
No-one who is rejecting an ivy is regretting that decision a decade out. Most who are, are choosing prestigious schools like WASP or ivy+ colleges.
How would you know ?
It's just an a reality of being an adult. Why do you believe otherwise?
WOW ! Clearly not an issue in your life.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:37
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It's rare to turn down Harvard.
15-20% of Harvard's admitted students turn it down. Yes, that's a high yield, but not rare to turn it down.
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.
No-one who is rejecting an ivy is regretting that decision a decade out. Most who are, are choosing prestigious schools like WASP or ivy+ colleges.
How would you know ?
It's just an a reality of being an adult. Why do you believe otherwise?
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:27
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It's rare to turn down Harvard.
15-20% of Harvard's admitted students turn it down. Yes, that's a high yield, but not rare to turn it down.
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.
No-one who is rejecting an ivy is regretting that decision a decade out. Most who are, are choosing prestigious schools like WASP or ivy+ colleges.
How would you know ?
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:23
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It's rare to turn down Harvard.
15-20% of Harvard's admitted students turn it down. Yes, that's a high yield, but not rare to turn it down.
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.
No-one who is rejecting an ivy is regretting that decision a decade out. Most who are, are choosing prestigious schools like WASP or ivy+ colleges.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:19
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It's rare to turn down Harvard.
15-20% of Harvard's admitted students turn it down. Yes, that's a high yield, but not rare to turn it down.
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.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:18
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mine did this year. I've decided that it's something my son can silently be proud of. Both the Ivy admission and the fact that they did what is right for them and didn't just follow the name.
Mine turned down Columbia for U Chicago.
Because Uchicago is a much better university for a majority of fields.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:16
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Mine did this year. I've decided that it's something my son can silently be proud of. Both the Ivy admission and the fact that they did what is right for them and didn't just follow the name.
Mine turned down Columbia for U Chicago.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:16
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At our school in Texas, 3 kids turned down Ivies for UK schools: Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge.
Turning down an ivy for st Andrews is a bit surprising.
We know someone who turned down Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton to go to Rutgers.
So that is not surprising? As a parent of a kid at St Andrews and one at Dartmouth I can tell you my kids t St Andrews turned down Brown for St Andrews and several of her friends made similar choices depending on their major. Stop generalizing everything.
Going to an American rich kid party school that is essentially just the English version of Tulane over an ivy is surprising. St Andrews is nowhere near the level of Oxbridge.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:11
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At our school in Texas, 3 kids turned down Ivies for UK schools: Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge.
Turning down an ivy for st Andrews is a bit surprising.
We know someone who turned down Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton to go to Rutgers.
So that is not surprising? As a parent of a kid at St Andrews and one at Dartmouth I can tell you my kids t St Andrews turned down Brown for St Andrews and several of her friends made similar choices depending on their major. Stop generalizing everything.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:10
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Amherst has a worse yield than Williams
No one said it didn't.