<p>I’m just mildly curious…</p>
<p>I chose HC over: WashU, Wesleyan, Oberlin, Penn and Brandeis.</p>
<p>My parents and I turned down the opportunity to invest $120,000 ($30,000x4 years) in a bubbly stock market of the mid-late 1990’s where we could have comfortably exceeded 20% returns annually.</p>
<p>Even so, according to my parents, LAC educations were the best investments they ever made (BMC, SC, HC)… and inparticular, HC, where they gave an additional $200 @ graduation despite us seriously putting them in the poorhouse at the end of this run. </p>
<p>It’s my experience that you will meet students who turned down every school imaginable (except, for some strange reason, never heard of a case of Yale) for HC. You will also meet kids (who will totally impress you too) who would have liked to have had such choices as well.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon, Bucknell…only applied to 4 schools…rutgers(safety)</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins, UPenn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Swarthmore</p>