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06-26-2008, 09:22 AM
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#46 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 50
| it was funny because of the futility of saying "i know what my parents make" and telling us what your college acceptance list was.
and yeah, i pee my pants every now and then | 
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06-26-2008, 09:46 AM
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#47 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 277
| Assuming that list is true (and count me among the skeptical), it just goes to show that admission committees are not perfect. | |
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06-26-2008, 12:05 PM
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#48 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 213
| how amazing. because i questioned whether your statements are true (after you questioned someone else's, mind you) all of a sudden i'm going to community college! and I don't even know what college is! and a druggie on top of that!! well, at least i can now fund my college education with my new "career shift"
also...i...hope...this...is the way you...write...and not...the way you...talk...because...so many pauses...would have...put someone...to sleep by.......now!! | |
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06-26-2008, 01:14 PM
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#49 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: JHU
Posts: 535
| DevilKnight, I'm having a hard time reconciling what you post. You claim a household income of 2 million dollars, list all your great acceptances, but then turn around a say you gave up Harvard and Tufts ( Which College was the hardest for YOU to give up?) because they didn't come through with aid, and Princeton, because it is too "rich." Duke aid beat out Harvard aid for a family with a 2 million dollar income? What kind of aid do you need, exactly? | |
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06-26-2008, 02:15 PM
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#50 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Wilmington>>>>DUKE
Posts: 79
| coolguy: I don't wanna be a useless money taking son to my parents. I want to earn scholarships/grants so that I can academically earn my way through college. I hope that's okay for you.
and to the rest of you, thank for making fun of my disability..you people don't understand what i go through having dyslexia...i can't help it that this is the way i type....you all should be ashamed of yourself..
and doubting my abiities...i deserve to go to any of those schools more than any one of you guys...so beat it! | |
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06-26-2008, 02:17 PM
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#51 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Wilmington>>>>DUKE
Posts: 79
| and duke in fact did beat out harvard aid...my family is a yalie family...big donors to yale in fact...but i like harvard...but duke gave me an unbeatable grant...so i had to choose duke...plus duke has everything that suits me... | |
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06-26-2008, 02:41 PM
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#52 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: JHU
Posts: 535
| No, I think that's noble, but I'm still confused as to how you were able to file for aid independently from your parents. I tried this, but from Harvard's financial aid site:
Can I apply for Harvard's financial aid independently of my parents?
No, in 99% of the cases. We feel strongly that your parents have an obligation to help finance your college education. Our aid is available only to students whose families would not otherwise be able to send them to Harvard
And this was the case at Hopkins and many other schools. I'm just a little confused here--unless of course you were a 1% case. | |
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06-26-2008, 02:52 PM
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#53 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 54
| um, that's nice that your parents make more money than me devilknight, seriously though, don't hate just because next spring i'll be working at goldman sachs while you're taking intro chem... | |
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06-26-2008, 03:21 PM
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#54 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Wilmington>>>>DUKE
Posts: 79
| alonzo...nice job...dude i was pulling ur strings...and intro to chem sounds much better than being in the work field...my parents always say that college life is better than career life....so...i win the argument...again....
and coolguy....yeah i applied independently...my parent's finance manager told me to...(but he did have to go through things to get that to happen)...so i guess u can say that i beat the system...not that i am proud of that... | |
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06-26-2008, 05:38 PM
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#55 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,932
| Another reason not to believe you - if you really didn't want to have your parents pay, you would have accepted the Danforth. (Seriously. Name one bad thing about St. Louis). | |
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06-26-2008, 11:25 PM
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#56 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Wilmington>>>>DUKE
Posts: 79
| Ok The Risks Of St. Louis: Floods, Floods, Floods, Tornados, Midwest Mentality....floods,floods, Possible Tornado, Floods, Floods, Floods...get The Point!
And Duke Gave Me A Full Ride Anyway...so...i Am Right! I Picked The Best Offer! | |
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06-26-2008, 11:31 PM
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#57 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: PA
Posts: 903
| yay Duke! yay Johns Hopkins! who cares.. you guys like where you are at so what's the point of convincing each other to like the other school? lol | |
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06-27-2008, 01:11 AM
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#58 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,932
| ^ Exactly.
I don't see the point of bashing JHU on the JHU board, or any other school for that matter without an actual reason. | |
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06-27-2008, 08:43 AM
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#59 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Wilmington>>>>DUKE
Posts: 79
| well its the fun of arguing that you guys are missing! | |
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06-27-2008, 11:04 AM
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#60 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Boise, Idaho
Posts: 614
| not trying to argue or anything but....why didn't you just say duke gave you a full ride in the beginning?
you kept saying you got a better grant. Typically grants go out for financial aid. I thought that a full ride would just be free tuition!?! | |
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