<p>IF you rejected or deferred Harvard for the Class of 2009, please state your alternative college and the reason for rejecting Harvard.</p>
<p>The format could be as follows</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard, Accepted: Yale Reason: Legacy/Better Package/etc. etc.</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard
Going to: Princeton</p>
<p>Better undergrad focus, better social scene, better programs for my major interests, and kinda wanted to try something suburban</p>
<p>But maybe I’ll end up in Boston for grad school…</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard
Going to: Princeton</p>
<p>I chose Pton over Harvard (and Stanford and Yale) for its
better undergrad focus, better social scene, better programs for my major interests, and kinda wanted to try something suburban</p>
<p>But maybe I’ll end up in Boston for grad school…</p>
<p>chose Yale over Harvard, Stanford, and Duke</p>
<p>Yale just “fit” the best. My kind of architectural aesthetic. higher proportion of chill people. same academic level, etc</p>
<p>i think yale and harvard are two of the most alike colleges ever, but everything that was different about them (save maybe new haven) i liked better at yale. Yale just “fit” the better. My kind of architectural aesthetic. higher proportion of chill people. same academic level, etc
and the yale colleges seem to be more cohesive</p>
<p>I disagree; when I visited Y and H, I noticed two distinctly different personalities. But it was sort of the same for me (only, opposite); whatever differences I found between Y and H, I liked better @ H.</p>
<p>And New Haven’s not nearly as bad as some make it out to be.</p>
<p>rejected: Harvard
going to: Dartmouth</p>
<p>Harvard is obviously known–off hand–to be the greatest school in the US, but to me Dartmouth is the best college in the country based on lifestyle and the importance of the overall undergrad experience. Having said that: it would be very nice to get into Harvard grad.</p>
<p>It seems like almost everybody who were asking questions “choosing between H and …” decided to matriculate to Harvard. Those who chose another college never seemed to have a dilemma.</p>
<p>rejected:Harvard
accepted: Emory
reasons: better fin aid (full ride), get my M.A. in International relations in four years and i like the feel of the campus more.</p>
<p>Huge “merit aid” incentives are almost always the reason any cross admit picks some other school over Harvard. (Of course 4 out of 5 pick Harvard over whatever alternatives are open to them.)</p>
<p>Of the 400 or so who decline Harvard admission, half choose another Ivy, MIT or Stanford. The other 200 are very often people getting a full-ride or big “merit” package elsewhere.</p>
<p>Can’t blame them. Full rides are haaaaaard to turn down.</p>
<p>full rides at state schools arent.</p>
<p>well, full rides to state can be hard depending on 1. which state and 2. exactly how much you’re looking to pay at other schools.</p>
<p>rejected Harvard (and Cooper Union)
Full Ride and Dean’s Scholars Program at NYU (Art Major)</p>
<p>NYU made me an offer I could not refuse, Harvard could not compete with NYU’s experience and art program.</p>
<p>I came VERY close to rejecting Harvard for a merit scholarship at Duke, but decided in the last week (with some amazing financial support from parents) that Harvard was something I could pass up.</p>
<p>I, like just<em>forget</em>me came very close to rejecting Harvard for the same merit scholarship he speaks of, but at UNC-Chapel Hill. However, for what seem like the same reasons as alluded to in the post above this one, I ultimately chose Harvard. (It seems like the only people I’ve heard of who’ve turned down Robertson have done so for Harvard.)</p>
<p>Ahh we meet again just<em>forget</em>me and mg2687. I ultimately turned down Yale for the Robertson Scholarship at UNC Chapel Hill. This year a lot of people turned down the Robertson for Harvard. However, many of those who received an invitation to the Robertson also had enormous outside merit scholarships (two had amassed around $75,000). Personally, I don’t quite see any benefit to having $100,000 in loans versus graduating debt free. But to each his own.</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard
Going to: Yale</p>
<p>I had a very hard time trying to decide between the two (flipping a coin would have saved me a lot of trouble!), but I like Yale’s campus much more than Harvard’s, and I felt that I would fit in better there. I also like the whole laidback atmosphere, and New Haven isn’t really that bad; it’s better than my town. Plus New York isn’t too far away.</p>
<p>About rejecting a school for financial reasons: I consider it somewhat of an anomaly that it would cost about $6000 more for me to go to Northwestern and $8000 more to go to Chicago than Yale or Harvard. If I had been rejected from Harvard or Yale, I might have had to “settle” with my local state school (Michigan - the fact that it’s comparatively easy for us in-staters to go to one of the best public schools in the country helps to mitigate the fact that we live in Michigan ;)).</p>
<p>Hey, Michigan’s not that bad–compared to Ohio anyway. Not only is our state school only a shadow of what Michigan is, the ONLY thing I prefer about Ohio is that we have Cedar Point.</p>
<p>God, I can’t wait to go to Dartmouth and get back up into the mountains…</p>
<p>Ohio > Michigan</p>
<p>Toledo should be expelled from the state; far too many UM fans live there.</p>
<p>:-P</p>
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<p>Seven Nights, I would agree with you on that account. However, my mother has some money saved and my aid package was very reasonable, so I could end up graduating debt-free from Harvard too (if anything, my loans will be minimal). That being said, it was still difficult turning down which would actually have amounted to me graduating with a surplus, as would have been the case had I taken Robertson.</p>