<p>Well, I’m taking ucsd with the full ride and jacobs eng scholarship perks with hopes of doing real well at ucsd and getting into business school or a md/mba prog after. Chose this mostly because of money, itd be a strain on my family paying over 50k a year after including travel, etc. We’d have to use our house on collateral with taking out tons of loans and then interest, etc. I dunno, I guess i’m just posting to look for assurance that its not too unfeasible to go from ucsd bioeng to business school without too much work experience. My highest goal as of now is to make money, am i making a mistake turning down M&T?</p>
<p>Congratulations on making a tough decision. $15K (after tax) coming due every 3 months is a killer. </p>
<p>Suggestion, take a look at the feasibility of double majoring at UCSD: In BioE (or other Engineering program) and in Econ with emphasis in Management Science.</p>
<p>That should give you much of what you need to enter a good MBA program.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Excellent advice. I can't really top that.</p>
<p>Well, a full ride to ucsd saves you ~220k (increasing tuiton, etc) over other schools. Think of it as a 220k graduation bonus ;).</p>
<p>Exactly. That means less debt/zero-debt to worry about once you graduate college.</p>
<p>a good decision if you ask me.</p>
<p>Wow, that's a 220k headstart on your fellow students toward being a millionaire.</p>
<p>Good choice my friend. I am in the same situation (except that my parents were going to make me pay for all but 5k/yr of college). Turning down Stanford for the Jacobs Scholar program. I'm super happy about my decision.. I would have had a hard time leaving SD.</p>
<p>Plus the Jacobs Scholar program kicks ass! Were you at the reception?</p>
<p>david? its brian</p>
<p>you can buy a car with the money you will save (you are gonna want one @ UCSD ;)) I think you made the right choice!</p>
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AHAHA dude nice! so you did pick SD?</p>
<p>That's a great choice. I've heard Stanford is terrible for undergrad, and here with the college system you don't feel lost amoung 20,000 people. Welcome to the Triton family.</p>