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Originally Posted by gbearbuck
I'd commit if it was the school I really wanted to attend. If my only options were MAC level schools I'd wait to see if something better came along. (although if a good school was filling up, and that school was my top choice of offers outstanding, I'd prob. verbal to that school to secure a spot... ie. if Duke offered and I only had offers from Ohio U, Miami, Toledo, BG, and Duke... I'd verbal to Duke if their class was filling up/my position was filling up).
If I ever received an offer from Stanford, I'd verbal on the spot. Nothing like the second best education in the nation free of charge  ... |
You know, that's something I've never understood. Admission plus a full ride to a school like Stanford, Duke, Rice or Northwestern ought to be a serious lure for some kids. I mean, if the football thing doesn't work out you've still got a degree from a fairly elite place. Not to mention that being private schools, the scholarship value is massively higher in actual dollar terms.
I mean, let's see...I can go to East Carolina or Duke...hrmmm. How about North Texas or Rice? Northern Illinois or Northwestern? Fresno State or Stanford? Come on!
Obviously, those schools are a lot more limited in who they can take than your run of the mill mid-major, but still you'd think the draw of a world-renown degree would land some talent. Northwestern is the only one on that list to have really put together much of a team in recent years, and I'd argue that it's probably not up to the level of the other three in terms of selectivity anyway.