Anonymous
06/13/2025 18:16
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:Mine chose Swat over Brown.
Hardly uncommon.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Swarthmore+College&with=Brown+University
I didn't claim it was.
The unspoken sentiment behind this thread is about turning down Ivy League schools for those that are (rightly or wrongly) perceived to be less prestigious or otherwise inferior. That's not the case in choosing Swarthmore over Brown. It'd be like me posting that I turned down HYP for Stanford.
It was a simple question. The inference is yours, not that of everyone who has responded.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:55
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.
So, if you are comfortable with your son's decision, why are you coming here to ask this question?
THIS!
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:45
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Go to paechment you can see there.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:42
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mine chose Swat over Brown.
Hardly uncommon.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Swarthmore+College&with=Brown+University
I didn't claim it was.
The unspoken sentiment behind this thread is about turning down Ivy League schools for those that are (rightly or wrongly) perceived to be less prestigious or otherwise inferior. That's not the case in choosing Swarthmore over Brown. It'd be like me posting that I turned down HYP for Stanford.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:36
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Pomona over Penn and Dartmouth. All great schools, but Pomona was the best fit. No regrets a year later.
In California in the 90's, I had many friends who chose Cal and UCLA over Ivies. I also had friends who chose UC Davis and UCSB over Cal and UCLA. Cost, fit, and location are important to a lot of folks. If I still lived in California, I probably would have urged my kid toward a UC on the basis of value. I'm still a West Coaster at heart where I think "prestige" is less valued than it is on the East Coast. (Maybe this has changed?)
In California in the 90's, I had many friends who chose Cal and UCLA over Ivies. I also had friends who chose UC Davis and UCSB over Cal and UCLA. Cost, fit, and location are important to a lot of folks. If I still lived in California, I probably would have urged my kid toward a UC on the basis of value. I'm still a West Coaster at heart where I think "prestige" is less valued than it is on the East Coast. (Maybe this has changed?)
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:31
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mine chose Swat over Brown.
Hardly uncommon.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Swarthmore+College&with=Brown+University
I didn't claim it was.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:26
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Mine chose Swat over Brown.
Hardly uncommon.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Swarthmore+College&with=Brown+University
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:22
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Mine chose Swat over Brown.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:19
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
This question is way too vague. Turned down Cornell for MIT? Of course. Turned down Yale for Alabama, even with a free ride, super rare. Both Ivy and non-Ivys are completely non-homogenous categories. Hearing that someone turned down Brown for Caltech won't make you feel better about forcing your kid to turn down Harvard for an in-state price tag.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:17
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Turned down Harvard for Vanderbilt
That seems... questionable.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 17:06
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Turned down Harvard for Vanderbilt
Anonymous
06/13/2025 16:57
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Yeah, if my math is right Williams is anticipating a 29 percent RD yield. Yikes!
Anonymous
06/13/2025 16:50
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:at least half the kids at Williams either got into or would’ve gotten into ivies.
Which would seem to explain why their yield is well under 50 percent.
https://williamsrecord.com/469492/news/college-admits-8-5-percent-of-applicants-to-class-of-2029/
50% is really on the yield for the most popular LACs like Pomona (which has California location on its side). A 43% yield is pretty good for a liberal arts college.
That seems quite low for a top school with ED. If 50% of the school comes though ED with 100% yield, that means RD yield is terrible.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 16:41
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:at least half the kids at Williams either got into or would’ve gotten into ivies.
Which would seem to explain why their yield is well under 50 percent.
https://williamsrecord.com/469492/news/college-admits-8-5-percent-of-applicants-to-class-of-2029/
50% is really on the yield for the most popular LACs like Pomona (which has California location on its side). A 43% yield is pretty good for a liberal arts college.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 16:05
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
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.
I know someone who turned Harvard down for a free ride to a T20 + a special program for courted students.