<p>I turned down Stanford for Maryland because of money.</p>
<p>I know someone who turned down Yale for Univ. of North Florida for sports.</p>
<p>the college counselor at the kids’ school told me that someone turned down Williams for Dickinson due to the familiarity factor of her father having gone there.</p>
<p>AllureNY, I really think that is a fine decision if indeed your calling is art, there is no problem with SUNY-Purchase. Any poster, like Slipper, who say SUNY-Purchase isn’t a great…better yet, superb Fine Arts school need to be slapped then back-handed. </p>
<p>SUNY-Purchase is a dream come true for any artist and with arguably the strongest alumni network (especially in NYC-metro area) for a Fine Arts program. Don’t have any outside doubts, only your own doubts.</p>
<p>Going to Amherst in the fall myself and being very familiar with Purchase, my main comment is that you will be going down a few notches in terms of campus life, dorm quality, and nice college town.</p>
<p>But interms of the change in institutions themselves, that is not a bad decision, but it is a tough one that you will have to make.</p>
<p>i turned down w & l for rhodes, if that counts</p>
<p>I think I would turn down HYP for USC, UCLA, or possibly Stanford (hopefully a scholarship 
)…
of course
haven’t been admitted to any
much less applied yet
just saying</p>
<p>Turned down Brown, Duke, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, and Michigan for UVa. Money was not an issue, so it all came down to fit. UVa was the only school that truly had the best of both worlds–it offered all the amazing resources of a large university like diverse course offerings, research opporunities, and big-time D1 athletics, but still had a close-knit, LAC, community feel.</p>
<p>I think if I lived on the west coast I would have picked Harvey Mudd over any college, though unfortunately it’s 3000 miles away from me, oh well :|</p>
<p>ckmets, you made a wise choice of a college that has everything(location, sports, beauty, safety, etc.) going for it over a college that has great academics & lacrosse but not much else.</p>
<p>A friend turned down Yale for UCLA Regents. Another friend of mine turned down Harvard for Cal Regents.</p>
<p>doesnt really count but i turned down tufts and colgate for conn college</p>
<p>Someone turned down MIT to go to USC. She wanted to studyt film. Now she’s a joke to her family.</p>
<p>sum1 in my skool turned down upenn for rennsalear polytechnic institute</p>
<p>“Someone turned down MIT to go to USC. She wanted to studyt film. Now she’s a joke to her family.”</p>
<p>wow.</p>
<p>I have a friend turning down Yale for University of Virginia full-ride.</p>
<p>Sometimes students will choose LACs over top ivies. When I graduated from my high school, a student chose Williams over Harvard, and another Vassar over Harvard. Two students chose Swarthmore and Harverford over MIT. I chose Amherst over Yale.</p>
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<p>Not surprising at all !!! Sure, H has “the name”. But Berkeley is as great a university as H. Besides, he will be among the top dogs @Berkeley (top 5%?). Sometimes, a big fish @Berkeley turns out better than Mr. Who @Harvard. :)</p>
<p>buddy of mine (just graduated college) turned down harvard and yale for ouachita baptist, mostly because hes entering the ministry.</p>
<p>My cousin turned down a HUGE scholarship (probably close to full ride) for MIT to go to Berkeley, but I don’t know if he did get a scholarship from them, because he liked the professors at Berkeley better.</p>
<p>This thread is dead. lol</p>
<p>And choosing Berkeley over MIT isn’t really a big deal if it was about engineering.</p>