Cornell, MIT Scale Back Aid Even as Endowments Rise

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9. it might be

I was a top student, but there are lots of top students. I was national merit commended, not a person with a merit scholarship, for example. I got accepted into Washington University, needed to in order to apply for a scholarship which I did not get. I got a daddy scholarship anyway, but still think it is kinda annoying. I think that if I was as good at football or basketball as I was at math, that I would have gotten a full scholarship. But colleges value basketball and football players more than they value mathematiicians.

I considered applying to Harvard just so I could get accepted. Did not want to go to Harvard (and dad probably would not have paid for it anyway). I thought that might be a cool memento. "Once upon a time, I was good enough to be accpeted into Harvard." But the application fee was probably $50 (in 1979 money!) so it did not really seem to be worth it.

But ultimately that Stanford degree is probably much more valuable. My own Minnesota and Nebraska degrees are not worth much, and I feel that they become worth even less the further you get away from Twintown and Omaha.