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Student turns down entire Ivy League for University of Alabama
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:59 pm
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:59 pm
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Says he wants to go to medical school and wants to save the money for graduate school. That was exactly my thinking when I wanted to go to law school and decided on LSU for undergrad, except a few years later, I realized law school was wrong for me. I mean I wasn't going to an Ivy though for undergrad. With all the financial aid available at these elite schools, does it make sense to turn them down?
Says he wants to go to medical school and wants to save the money for graduate school. That was exactly my thinking when I wanted to go to law school and decided on LSU for undergrad, except a few years later, I realized law school was wrong for me. I mean I wasn't going to an Ivy though for undergrad. With all the financial aid available at these elite schools, does it make sense to turn them down?
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Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:59 pm to TheWalrus
No way
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:03 am to TheWalrus
The connections of the Ivy League >>> Post grad bama
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:08 am to TheWalrus
Just got too much Bama in em
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:10 am to wildtigercat93
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The connections of the Ivy League >>> Post grad bama
The networking opportunities at the ivies are astronomical and you're nearly set for life if you're competent in getting after them and nailing them down. Old money rules the roost.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:14 am to TheWalrus
Sounds like his decision-making is SEC-caliber, not Ivy. The undergrad savings are chump change compared to what he's throwing away.
Processed.
Processed.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:14 am to Sentrius
Local kid turned down Duke, Stanford, and half the Ivy League to commit to ULM. Said he didn't want to be in debt, didn't want to wait to compete. He won state in discus and shot put. He will compete in both in college I believe.
This post was edited on 5/18/15 at 12:17 am
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:15 am to TheWalrus
If you get accepted into Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, you have to go.
Even if you have to take some debt, there is a big ROI.
ETA: I missed the part about going to med school. That changes things.
Even if you have to take some debt, there is a big ROI.
ETA: I missed the part about going to med school. That changes things.
This post was edited on 5/18/15 at 12:23 am
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:20 am to TheWalrus
What an absolute idiot.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:21 am to TheWalrus
Definitely right decision.
He wants to go to med school.
Over 100k for undergrad for no reason. Only to accumulate much more? Smart kid, a bs is only a step for the many in medicine.
Another field, different story
He wants to go to med school.
Over 100k for undergrad for no reason. Only to accumulate much more? Smart kid, a bs is only a step for the many in medicine.
Another field, different story
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:21 am to TheWalrus
Maybe he wouldn't have qualified. Just because he was accepted doesn't mean they were offering anything else. If the kid is that smart the networking thing won't be an issue either. He'll get a free undergrad and probably plenty of opportunity for a Ivy league grad school where it will matter. He's smarter than most of you who would sign up for crushing debt and think there is a guaranteed positive ROI just because Ivy League.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:25 am to TheWalrus
I knew a chick who did the same. Ended up going to Auburn. Now she's a fat housewife.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:25 am to TheWalrus
Can't say much for his judgement.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:29 am to Sl4m
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he deserves it
Everything he gets rmft
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:38 am to TheWalrus
Not trying to defend Alabama at all, because after all it is a pretty ridiculous decision that most don't agree with, including myself, but the delusion behind the whole ivy league thing is unreal.
Are your chances of succeeding much greater if you graduate from an ivy league school? Obvious answer is yes. But y'all are acting as if it's some kind of guarantee. There is no written contract guaranteeing you these connections and a job making 6 figures out of right out of college.
Maybe if you are in an elite fraternity or club then your chances skyrocket, but the average student there is still going to have to work their arse off in the real world.
Are your chances of succeeding much greater if you graduate from an ivy league school? Obvious answer is yes. But y'all are acting as if it's some kind of guarantee. There is no written contract guaranteeing you these connections and a job making 6 figures out of right out of college.
Maybe if you are in an elite fraternity or club then your chances skyrocket, but the average student there is still going to have to work their arse off in the real world.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:43 am to Big Wooly Mammoth
only this kind of situation would make someone actually try to argue an ivy league school "aint that great pawwwwl" compared to Alabama.
frick you gumps
frick you gumps
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:50 am to Tiguar
Nobody ever said ivy league schools aren't great. But you can't send any kid from the south up to Harvard and expect them to succeed. I'm not even talking about school either. You think these "old money" kids want to hang out with some middle class kid from the memphis suburbs? Probably not.
The real connections people are talking about aren't as easy to make as people are led to believe.
The real connections people are talking about aren't as easy to make as people are led to believe.
Posted on 5/18/15 at 12:52 am to TheWalrus
Posted on 5/18/15 at 1:10 am to Big Wooly Mammoth
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But you can't send any kid from the south up to Harvard and expect them to succeed
the frick does this even mean? of course its always up to the individual.
whats your point, if its not to try to coyly defend Alabama against the Ivies?
Posted on 5/18/15 at 1:16 am to Tiguar
I don't think insurance companies pay doctors trained at Harvard any more than any other doctor do they?
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