Sheila declined a scholarship to study history at Birmingham University and trained as a shorthand typist.
The son of a blacksmith, Martin declined a scholarship to Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) and instead took a job as a newspaper reporter.
After graduation, she spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley, studying psychology, but declined a scholarship and left to work as a journalist for left-wing publications.
In 1926 he declined a scholarship to Cambridge, preferring the adventure and economic certainty of an uncle's introduction to the Paris agent of the Caledonian Insurance Company.
No, she does not regret her decision to decline a tennis scholarship to U.C.L.A. and take her chances and lumps as a teenage professional.
A star high school player, Freese declined a college baseball scholarship from the University of Missouri.
Kaepernick arrived in 2007, after he declined a career in professional baseball and accepted the only football scholarship he was offered.
They don't want to be surprised and get a higher student loan amount" at the end of four years, Chopra advises, adding that if you ask about this, schools should be able to provide an answer about the likelihood of a scholarship declining or disappearing altogether.
Hundreds of Division I coaches declined to offer Lin a scholarship.
But Ms. Mjartan, who is 23 and lived in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, over the last year, withdrew her application after learning that her place, if she won, would not be awarded to an alternate candidate if she declined the scholarship.
