<p>I have recently been admitted to Occidental, Oberlin, Lewis & Clark, Kenyon, New College of Florida, UC Davis, UCSD, and UCLA, and now I have a choice to make. </p>
<p>I'm essentially choosing between Kenyon, Davis, Lewis & Clark, and New College. Key things to consider: I'm from California and I enjoy being here. There are plenty of things I like being able to do here (mountain climb, rock climb, ski, bike, surf) that I couldn't do at a few of these other schools. Money is an issue: I/my family have 100,000 saved up, but it's up to me to handle whatever costs more than that. Debt sucks, so the least residual cost, the better. I prefer and am used to a smaller liberal arts school, but I'm pretty sure I could still be comfortable at a bigger school (ie. Davis). </p>
<p>Kenyon=Costs roughly 210,000$ over 4 years. Received 10k/year in merit aid=roughly 70k to pay for by myself. I'm definitely most interested in Kenyon's academics. </p>
<p>Lewis & Clark=roughly 200k over 4 years. Received 9k/year in merit aid=roughly 65k to pay for by myself. Most into Lewis & Clark's location (Portland's awesome, Mt. Hood, etc)...I'm slightly better than neutral about most everything else, though. </p>
<p>Davis=roughly 120k over 4 years, but financially shady. I'm into Food Science, but there's potentially a chance that it takes 5 years to graduate because of classes filling up. So likely 20k to pay for by myself, but possibly more. </p>
<p>New College=150k over 4 years. 12.5k/year in merit aid=probably nothing to pay for. I don't know too much about it. Sarasota seems like a pretty lame place, though. </p>
<p>Not interested in UCLA or UCSD primarily because of feel. Santa Cruz is lame. Oberlin and Oxy are really wonderful, but just cost too much. </p>
<p>Anyone have any thoughts about what you'd do? Anyone know anything about Sarasota, FL?</p>