<p>I'm down to these two colleges, but I really can't decide. I have ten days to decide! Yikes! I know there was another thread on this, but it was from 2004, so I thought I'd get some fresh opinions.
Cornell gave me no financial aid, so it'll be around $60,000 a year. My parents bought a plan so that we'd have to pay no more money to go to UVA.
Some may say to go to UVA for sure, but the thing is, half of my school goes to UVA and I just want a fresh start in college. I don't want to be seeing all those people again.
Am I being completely unreasonable about this?
Also, I am majoring in Biology and doing premed.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Unless your parents can afford Cornell without any loans (i.e. can pay out of pocket without any financial hardship) go to UVA since (or so it appears) it’s already paid for. </p>
<p>College is very large, it’s not very often you’ll run into people from your high school, so you shouldn’t worry about that.</p>
<p>Go to UVA and save the money for med school. UVA is a great school, and you wouldn’t get extra benefit by going to Cornell majoring in biology. This is a no brainer.
UVA is a large school, you won’t run into your friends unless you live in the same dorm.</p>
<p>Very few things drain an adult more that the burden of debt. 60k?? Please think very carefully about it. UVA is a top notch school. I promise you Cornell won’t look so wonderful years from now if the debt is still there. Choose wisely.</p>
<p>What if I didn’t go to med school afterwards?</p>
<p>Again, unless your parents can pay full price out-of-pocket without incurring any financial hardship, go to UVa.</p>
<p>Unless $240k is nothing to your parents, go to UVA.</p>
<p>College is a big place. You will never see people that you don’t want to see.</p>
<p>If you’d be happy at either, then choose the cheaper alternative.</p>
<p>I go to a small school (~1900 students) and I RARELY see the few people who came from my high school. </p>
<p>If you think you’d excel better at Cornell, and it wouldn’t cause TOO much struggle, then choose Cornell. If you’re family is going to have a hard time just paying tuition & room/board, you may not be able to do a lot outside of class at Cornell anyway.</p>