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05-01-2008, 09:14 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cornell University
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| What schools did you turn down?
Now that our deposit is in (or should be? lol), what schools did you turn down for BC?
Personally, I turned down NYU and Lehigh.
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05-01-2008, 09:31 PM
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#2 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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villanova, wake forest, gwu (gave me a 15k scholarship) and U of Toronto
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05-01-2008, 11:41 PM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 347
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Why would you turn down NYU for BC?
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05-02-2008, 01:31 AM
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#4 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 439
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D turned down NYU for many reasons: no real campus, no perceived school spirit, no big-time college sports, expense of NY city, dorms spread out over the city, etc. She was also interested in some specific programs at BC, which were unavailable at NYU.
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05-02-2008, 07:41 AM
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#5 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
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It is not surprising at all that she turned down NYU for BC...NYU is just a better version of GW and BU.
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05-02-2008, 11:01 AM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: New Jersey
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My son turned down GW , Villanova, Udel , Northeastern
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05-02-2008, 11:09 AM
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#7 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dallas, TX
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I turned down Northeastern, University of Miami, Fordham, Bard, and Penn State
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05-02-2008, 03:09 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cornell University
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I turned down NYU for BC because I got into the honors program at BC and they are otherwise two academically comparable schools even though NYU has a slight edge with regard to name recognition. Plus, NYU has no campus,whereas BC's campus is amazing, and the people at BC are more friendly.
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05-02-2008, 10:02 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Nobody should be surprised at somebody turning down any school to attend BC. What other school is in a safe neighborhood but overlaps a great city, has top-notch Division I teams in the 3 major sports (football, basketball, and hockey), has a beautiful campus, is fraternity-free, has a wide variety of excellent programs, and has a close-knit student-faculty atmosphere? No other school anywhere has that. Stanford is a long hike from San Francisco; Duke and Virginia are a long hike from any great city; Northwestern's, Columbia's and Harvard's sports teams suck; Notre Dame is a ways from Chicago; Wisconsin, UCLA, Berkeley, and Michigan are quite big; Penn and USC are in rought neighborhoods.
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05-03-2008, 12:57 AM
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#10 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
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I turned down colgate, oberlin, and vanderbilt for BC (last year, but I have never posted this before) and I do not regret my decision.
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05-03-2008, 01:01 AM
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#11 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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i turned down umich among others
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05-03-2008, 10:05 PM
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#12 | | New Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 19
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I turned down Michigan Honors (w/$10,000/yr Michigan Experience Merit Award), Colgate (Benton Scholar),Vanderbilt, Lehigh, University of Richmond, University of Wisconsin( Madison), and Emory. And I cannot wait to join the B.C. Class of 2012. Go Eagles!!!!
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05-03-2008, 11:30 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Eagle Heights
Posts: 1,370
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^ Damn! How much is BC giving you?
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05-04-2008, 08:08 PM
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#14 | | New Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Not a red cent, Reddune. I just fell in love with B.C. I just felt it was a strong fit. I confess, I do think about the cost and some of the perks I was offered at other schools. Still no regrets.
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05-04-2008, 09:37 PM
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#15 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 154
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^ good for you. You are going to love it!
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