In addition to rejecting offers from all eight Ivies, Ronald turned down letters of admission from such schools as Stanford, New York University, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, and Washington University in St. Louis. Instead, he will be going to the University of Alabama, where he's been given a full ride and admission into the honors program.
Nelson and his family were faced with a choice — stretch their budget and potentially take on debt for a brand-name school, or save their money for a graduate degree down the line. His father, Ronald Sr., is an engineer who works as a manager at the Federal Aviation Administration and his mother, Sandra, works in management at FedEx headquarters.
"I think it would have been possible, given some sacrifice," Ronald Sr. told Business Insider about sending his son to an Ivy League school.
After some thought and consideration of all the schools' offers, Nelson decided it wouldn't be worth the financial strain to use this money on his undergraduate education. He plans on going to medical school after college, and knows he'll be faced with more tuition costs.
"With people being in debt for years and years, it wasn't a burden that Ronald wanted to take on and it wasn't a burden that we wanted to deal with for a number of years after undergraduate," Ronald Sr. said. "We can put that money away and spend it on his medical school, or any other graduate school."
Each school offered Nelson some financial aid, he said, and "some of it could have been manageable for the first year."
After that first year, though, his aid package would shrink; his older sister graduates from college in 2016 and his parents would then only be supporting one child's tuition. The change, according to Nelson, would be "pretty drastic."
"[The schools] told me that I would probably end up paying quite a bit more over the next three years," he said.
虽说我觉得一根筋的医娃或CS娃不必要去挤T5啥的，但能进去的娃还是非常棒的。我娃当年读州大时一年学杂费不过一万出头，即使拿个全奖，也只4万，而好多州大娃3年就毕业，学费就3万出头。你如果毅然放弃H去咱娃州大全奖，就有点太浪费好不容易挣来的机会了，终究大学不仅仅是读个书嘛。但如果是Duke西北之大Vandy Rice之类的全奖，那真可以好好考虑一下。
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ivy-leagues-university-of-alabama
In addition to rejecting offers from all eight Ivies, Ronald turned down letters of admission from such schools as Stanford, New York University, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, and Washington University in St. Louis. Instead, he will be going to the University of Alabama, where he's been given a full ride and admission into the honors program.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-nelson-2019/
https://www.businessinsider.com/ronald-nelson-turned-down-every-ivy-league-school-for-university-of-alabama-2015-5
Nelson and his family were faced with a choice — stretch their budget and potentially take on debt for a brand-name school, or save their money for a graduate degree down the line. His father, Ronald Sr., is an engineer who works as a manager at the Federal Aviation Administration and his mother, Sandra, works in management at FedEx headquarters.
"I think it would have been possible, given some sacrifice," Ronald Sr. told Business Insider about sending his son to an Ivy League school.
After some thought and consideration of all the schools' offers, Nelson decided it wouldn't be worth the financial strain to use this money on his undergraduate education. He plans on going to medical school after college, and knows he'll be faced with more tuition costs.
"With people being in debt for years and years, it wasn't a burden that Ronald wanted to take on and it wasn't a burden that we wanted to deal with for a number of years after undergraduate," Ronald Sr. said. "We can put that money away and spend it on his medical school, or any other graduate school."
Each school offered Nelson some financial aid, he said, and "some of it could have been manageable for the first year."
After that first year, though, his aid package would shrink; his older sister graduates from college in 2016 and his parents would then only be supporting one child's tuition. The change, according to Nelson, would be "pretty drastic."
"[The schools] told me that I would probably end up paying quite a bit more over the next three years," he said.
到社会上后争、抢、搏、的奋斗精神。我看到发财的UCB牛娃的才能和性情，让人佩服，那个毅力、那个倒了再爬起来倒了再爬起来的精神，如何打击都不放弃，那个持久力，我不知道是天生的还是UCB啥都要竞争造成的
也不一定光是钱的事，有女孩好私校录了也不去，就要去州大，为啥，男朋友在州大。
一般孩子不能冒这个险。
这个孩子的家庭，如果不算富豪的话，至少不是一般工薪家庭可以比的。从幼儿园就是私校。
200名以后确实吓人
自杀太多，杜克这些苦b学校更不会花大钱去，花钱买罪受，州大快快乐乐每天还赚钱
认识一个哥们儿，复课两年就为考清华，最终清华一路本硕博。
放弃的是浙大和上交。