<p>probably for pre-med or international business</p>
<p>CofC: Honors Program, presidential scholarship, have to pay 14k/year</p>
<p>Tulane: No honors, 20k scholarship, have to pay 33k/year</p>
<p>Tulane is definitely better academically but does anyone have opinion's on either</p>
<p>I can’t comment specficially on Tulane as I don’t have any personal knowledge of it. The students I know in CofC’s honor college turned down many colleges higher ranked than Tulane to attend CofC, for what it’s worth. But this is my opionion: if $33,000 a year ($132,000 plus because tuition will go up) means loans, that is a lot of debt to graduate with. Do you plan to go to graduate school/lw school/etc?</p>
<p>Well, the OP said possibly pre-med so that would mean med school, lol. Which means I agree with stillnadine. I am a big Tulane person and love to steer good students there, but if going there means either taking out big loans or chewing through savings that could be used for med school or grad school, then C of C is the better choice. I agree Tulane is stronger academically, but you will get a fine education at C of C. I have recently had the chance to meet some impressive graduates from there. Really nice people that seem very competent and had good things to say about the school.</p>
<p>There are times in life you have to be practical, and it isn’t like you won’t get a good education at C of C. However, if in fact the extra money for Tulane does not heavily impact your famliy’s finances, then I do think that is the better choice academically. Cannot comment on how good a fit it is otherwise since you don’t say much about your preferences, but I suspect the two schools have a similar enough “vibe” that it wouldn’t change the discussion much anyway.</p>
<p>Tulane is better. Besides,many people I know from High School ended up transfering to another school but Charleston.</p>
<p>Multitasker-are you saying you know people who transferred from CofC? If so, can you elaborate? From which state are you?</p>
<p>I am from NC, and yes, I know 5 people who transferred: one to Elon, one to NC State, one to Wake Forest, one to GWU and the other to UGA.
They all coincided they had higher expectations for the school. They didn’t like the teaching, they felt that it was like a continuation of HS, and classes were not hard enough to represent college. I haven’t gone there, but I applied, got in, and these people were one year ahead of me, so I decided not to attend.</p>