<p>So, for an undergraduate degree, which option would you select?</p>
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<li><p>Attending Harvard College for 4 years. Tuition, Room and Board, Books, Necessary Travel, etc. would be paid for, but no additional funds are received. Everything academically-related is paid for.</p></li>
<li><p>Attending UNC-Chapel Hill on the Morehead-Cain Scholarship for TWO YEARS. Since I already have some credits that transfer to UNC Chapel Hill, I could get my undergraduate degree in two years from this university. Also, if you are not familiar with the scholarship, EVERYTHING is paid for just like the Harvard College option, with the addition of free designated summer programs (upward bound, etc.), and a stipend each month (around $1,000). Also, you can apply for a “discovery fund” each summer of up to $5,000 to pretty much use toward any summer adventure. There are probably some other pluses but I think I listed the main ones.</p></li>
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<p>So…which one? Try to give some reasoning behind your answer too.</p>
<p>Harvard. All the way. Just the name - it carries so much weight. I have met others like you who have financial aid concerns, but if you go to Harvard University you’re salary will be so much higher the instant you walk out of those gates (Also, they’re paying for almost everything for four years… how much better can it get?). When people ask you where you went to college, you can say Harvard instead of UNC-Chapl Hill. Note - UNC - CH is still a fabulous school! It’s just that Harvard is the one of the best Universities in the WORLD. It would be a huge mistake to turn them down.</p>
<p>A 4 year full-ride to Harvard vs. a 2 year scholly to UNC-CH with a few perks that I’d say are relatively negligible. I don’t know why you’d want to graduate from UNC-CH in two years anyways. Harvard seems like the better option without a doubt.</p>
<p>I would take the Morehead, but that is just me UNC has such an upbeat and happily infectious atmosphere that is unmatched by anyone. There is so much more to college than prestige, and its not like UNC doesn’t have that either. I would even recommend that you stay the full four years because the summer programs offered by the Morehead are unmatched by anyone. However, if your heart is not in it, let the award be given to someone who truly wants it.</p>
<p>I would choose Carolina over Harvard even without the scholarship, but I suppose I am not most people. </p>
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The Robertson and Morehead have always been four-year scholarships.</p>
<p>I’m fairly sure Morehead finalists have not been chosen yet, nor have Harvard decisions been released. What exactly is the purpose of this thread, besides seeing how many people you can get to respond?</p>
<p>“I would choose Carolina over Harvard even without the scholarship, but I suppose I am not most people.”</p>
<p>Do you feel special and elevated? One must not talk about what cannot be possible, that you would have or have had the luxury of choosing between the schools.</p>
<p>Morehead-Cain applies to Duke University as well, right?</p>
<p>So, you get to finish UNC/Duke in 2 years and you get $34,000 in change.</p>
<p>Or, the full, traditional college experience, a unique academic and social experience, at Harvard.</p>
Are you suggesting that we refrain from the use of the subjunctive?</p>
<p>Were I in a position to choose between them, I would choose Carolina. Feel free to choose the opposite view, but my statement is grammatically sound, and (though this is irrelevant) my stats were Harvard level. </p>
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Incorrect. The Morehead has nothing to do with Duke.</p>
<p>Hm. Mistook this for the Robertson Scholars Program.</p>
<p>Harvard rejects nine-tenths of its applicants each year. I’m sure plenty of them were statistically qualified.</p>
<p>Grammar is quite irrelevant. My implication was that speculation as to how one may act in a hypothetical situation is frivolous when the likelihood of such a situation actually occurring is infinitesimal.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Hey, I would prefer to be the Chief Justice of SCOTUS rather than the President of the U.S.</p>
<p>Harvard for four years, no cost to you, or drop out and buy a software company for $50k and then hook up with IBM to supply the operating system of their new PC line…</p>
<p>Look TWO YEARS OF YOUR LIFE are worth… what? In two years you will have graduated from UNC and on to do whatever it is you want to do.</p>
<p>The only reason I would choose H over UNC is if I were highly motivated to work in the non-back-office part of Wall St, or one of the top 3 consulting firms… (I would say the same about Yale, Princeton).</p>
<p>I honestly have no idea why you would want to miss out on two years of college. What’s the urgency? College is a wonderful, special period in one’s life when you can experience so many things, expand your mind, meet new people, experiment with new things, ideas, opportunities. You will be exposed to so much that you are just much less likely to be exposed to in other facets of your life. And it will give you a chance to grow in unique ways that are not as available elsewhere. Work, on the other hand, you’ll be doing the rest of your life regardless. If you view college as just a means to an end, or job training, I think you will be missing out on a lot.</p>
<p>UNC-chapel hill
$5,000 for a summer adventure- you could have so much fun.
why not take it?
Prestige isn’t everything. It is not happyness, beauty,quality of life or anything that matters. there are thimgs a Harvard education will not buy you. You will never be 18 again so don’t let yourself regret your collefe life grinding in pain or a hope of prestige and missing the ethereal beauty of a sunflower. Go see the aurora borealis in Alaska instead.</p>
<p>Harvard, and not just cause I go to Duke haha. As someone mentioned, Harvard full-ride beats UNC full ride. If you had to pay for Harvard, then there may need to be more insight. But 2 years of college really isn’t a burden. College is great - don’t skimp out on it.</p>
<p>Oh my god. I have the same options. I don’t know what to do! Harvard practically full ride (I got a really good financial aid package) or UNC-CH with the Morehead-Cain! And because I was in an early college program, UNC-CH would make me a junior at their school (but I would still stay the four years; I will probably take a double major or something). And then I wouldn’t have to burden my parents at all because the stipends could cover my costs… and then the trips around the world… oh my god, that would be so amazing… Also, UNC has accepted me in their Honor’s Program… AND I LOVE UNC!</p>
<p>And then there’s Harvard. The world’s greatest university. People would kill to get in here. And I have a spot, with a great aid package. But I would still probably have to pay for a lot of stuff and maybe take a job for the work-study thing… But again, IT’S HARVARD!</p>
<p>I feel like that Nicholas Geiser kid who wrote for the NYTimes, but not as pretentious (^_^)</p>
<p>Aw man… My heart says one thing and my brain says the other… neither have ever failed me…</p>
UNC has such an upbeat and happily infectious atmosphere that is unmatched by anyone. There is so much more to college than prestige, and its not like UNC doesn’t have that either. I would even recommend that you stay the full four years because the summer programs offered by the Morehead are unmatched by anyone. However, if your heart is not in it, let the award be given to someone who truly wants it.</p>