Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 20:17     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Anonymous wrote:WWYD: heard this several times in last few years, with similar kind of schools. Stamps at ND vs Wharton. Went w Wharton. Another full ride at Vanderbilt vs full pay at Duke. Went Duke. etc.

this from families with more than one kid and total wealth at 3 or 4ish million (let's say). So full pay for each is possible, but not meaningless.

every time the bigger name school was picked over the full ride. and I'm not really buying fit since these could all be fit schools - they're schools they applied to and acknowledge would have been fine. "but she just really wanted Duke" or whatever. I honestly think you all might love your kids more than I do ... because I'd be banking that money for kid down the road.


Mine did it: got the full-ride, named scholarship at a T25 and picked the ivy. All of the offerings, the world-class ranking (based on outcomes) and most importantly the peer group, made the ivy the much better fit. We are full pay but have no where near 3 million net worth. Now if it had been full-ride T10 such as Duke vs Ivy? That would have been much closer, as both schools are T10 and peer groups essentially the same.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 18:24     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
This is our net worth-ish and it feels like a jump ball. My kids are super practical and would (and did in one case) take the money

Also the ND earnings data is as impressive as any ivy
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 18:22     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Anonymous wrote:WWYD: heard this several times in last few years, with similar kind of schools. Stamps at ND vs Wharton. Went w Wharton. Another full ride at Vanderbilt vs full pay at Duke. Went Duke. etc.

this from families with more than one kid and total wealth at 3 or 4ish million (let's say). So full pay for each is possible, but not meaningless.

every time the bigger name school was picked over the full ride. and I'm not really buying fit since these could all be fit schools - they're schools they applied to and acknowledge would have been fine. "but she just really wanted Duke" or whatever. I honestly think you all might love your kids more than I do ... because I'd be banking that money for kid down the road.


WWYD? Not put in my 2 cents on how rich people want to spend their money.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 18:18     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
The difference in income 10 yrs out is small
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 18:17     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My cousin's kid (valedictorian of a top magnet) took Rice with $100K merit over full pay at Dartmouth.


Honestly, I would too.


Me too, but I’m not a Dartmouth fan.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 18:13     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My cousin's kid (valedictorian of a top magnet) took Rice with $100K merit over full pay at Dartmouth.
I would not allow my kid to make this mistake
Because you have no confidence in your kid?
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:57     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Anonymous wrote:My cousin's kid (valedictorian of a top magnet) took Rice with $100K merit over full pay at Dartmouth.


I would not allow my kid to make this mistake
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:50     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Anonymous wrote:My cousin's kid (valedictorian of a top magnet) took Rice with $100K merit over full pay at Dartmouth.


Honestly, I would too.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:40     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
My cousin's kid (valedictorian of a top magnet) took Rice with $100K merit over full pay at Dartmouth.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:39     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Anonymous wrote:At the HHI, Wharton over ND. Vanderbilt over Duke full pay, however.


agree with this - the differential between Wharton and ND is significant, not so much Duke and Vandy
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:32     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
At the HHI, Wharton over ND. Vanderbilt over Duke full pay, however.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:18     Subject: Re:full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Anonymous wrote:So several times in the past few years you have heard of kids where you know where they were accepted, that they got a full ride somewhere and turned it down, and the parents’ net worth.

No.


I know kids how got full rides at similar schools, including vandy, and didn't take them. I don't know parents net worth but could guess.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:17     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
ND Mendoza
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:12     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
They will have more opportunities coming out of Duke and Wharton and that could pay off financially in the end.

If my net worth was four million, I'd let my kid turn down full rides at ND or Vandy to go to Duke or Wharton.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2024 17:00     Subject: full ride at ND vs full pay at Wharton
Wharton but only if I knew that going there wasn't going to eat them up