Anonymous
06/13/2025 23:00
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Nobody would turn down playing football at OSU or Alabama vs playing for Harvard. Nobody.
The NIL dollars plus payments direct from the school would be massive in addition to the potential to get drafted into the NFL.
Your statement may be true for the five-star recruits and/or skill position players, but a player at the bottom of Alabama's recruiting class (yes, some of them are "only" three-stars) and plays interior offensive line, kicker, or safety is way better off going to a Harvard or Stanford.
Most of the NIL dollars are going to a small subset of the roster.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 22:58
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mine turned down an Ivy for UVA.
Are you the OP from here?
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1276259.page
She's a frequent poster, but while OP changes small details, it is clear that this is the same person. Her poor daughter, I can't imagine the pressure!
Anonymous
06/13/2025 22:54
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
yea, full ride UNC.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 22:51
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.
What school did your kid choose over Cornell and why?
nah,Columbia
Anonymous
06/13/2025 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:Turned down Harvard for Vanderbilt
That seems... questionable.
He got a full ride to Vanderbilt (sports recruit) vs full pay to Harvard
It’s silly to include sports in this discussion.
Nobody would turn down playing football at OSU or Alabama vs playing for Harvard. Nobody.
The NIL dollars plus payments direct from the school would be massive in addition to the potential to get drafted into the NFL.
Baseball at Vandy wouldn’t have as much NIL money but would definitely put a kid in line to be drafted into the MLB.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 21:34
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Turned down Harvard for Vanderbilt
That seems... questionable.
He got a full ride to Vanderbilt (sports recruit) vs full pay to Harvard
Anonymous
06/13/2025 21:16
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.
Get over yourself.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 21:15
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Daughter did
Anonymous
06/13/2025 21:00
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Anonymous wrote:Mine turned down an Ivy for UVA.
Are you the OP from here?
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1276259.page
Anonymous
06/13/2025 20:54
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Mine turned down an Ivy for UVA.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 20:49
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
I know of kids this year who turned down Brown, Cornell, and Penn. Going to WASP, Northwestern, and the 1693 program at W&M.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 20:37
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: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.
What practical value is there in posting "my kid turned down Cornell for MIT," which is technically turning down an Ivy to attend another school?
I don't think that this thread has any real value but mine turned down MIT to attend a NESCAC.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 18:53
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Except that the "big fish in a small pond" strategy keeps getting increasingly harder to execute successfully.
Anonymous
06/13/2025 18:45
Subject: How many have a kid who turned down an Ivy or Ivies to attend another school?
Aspiring doctors have been doing this forever, to accept scholarships, have less competition for top research opportunities, easier to get perfect gpa etc
Anonymous
06/13/2025 18:28
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: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.
What practical value is there in posting "my kid turned down Cornell for MIT," which is technically turning down an Ivy to attend another school?