Which Ivy will it be?

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<p>His father was a former migrant worker who worked his way up to facilities engineer in the local Ford factory, and his mother holds a journalism degree from BU. </p>

<p>Besides the unsurprising 4.0 GPA, NMF (and NMHF), he has performed the lead or a major role in every school drama since he was a freshman, and works 16 hours/week as a singing and dancing server at Johnny Rocket’s. He wants to study Romance languages and eventually, international law.</p>

<p>Read about the Cincinnati-area senior’s dilemma below:</p>

<p>[The</a> Enquirer - Which Ivy will it be?](<a href=“http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/NEWS0102/804290333/1077/COL02]The”>http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/NEWS0102/804290333/1077/COL02)</p>

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<p>Know a similar dilemma. Local student here has to chose between Yale, Harvard, U Penn, Rice and Stanford. Similar stats to kid in article.</p>

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<p>what a great hard decision to have to make!</p>

<p>Maybe decide based on what kind of weather he likes!</p>

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<p>In today’s paper: he chose Harvard.</p>

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<p>I finally got around to reading the entire article (busy day today) and the only thing of note is this classic bit of misinformation by the reporter:</p>

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<p>NO. The above might have gotten him accepted, but as well-informed CC-ers know, it would have been the family’s financial situation that got him aid from the Ivies.</p>

<p>Grrrr.</p>