<p>Cost is essentially negligible, as the net price calculator for Mid and Chicago have everything covered with only a 2k yearly loan apart of the Middlebury package. Likely full-tuition scholarship to Temple and she would probably live at home. She doesn’t have a particular academic preference, all three provide very different things.</p>
<p>Mid provides a bucholic setting and the best language program out of all three (she’s a linguaphile – accepted to Midd’s language honors program and received a fellowship to go spend a summer at a Midd immerson school for grad students for free!). Med school placement doesn’t seem to be too shabby.</p>
<p>Chicago provides the most academically rigorous option of the three, and the best fit [at least, IMO]. While grade deflation is a problem there, its in its own world and thus I think it’d do the best strategic placement for med. She’s the study hard, party hard type, so I think Chicago, particularly with research opportunities and notable alumni in every field, allows her the most flexibility, should she decide to change her mind (she’s locked into the language department at Midd).</p>
<p>Temple is the most familiar. She has a bit of anxiety about leaving home, and living in our hometown by going to Temple provides her with the most familiar setting, considering that she was WL by Penn today. She seems to be of the opinion that the connections she develops at Temple will be the same as those she develops at UChicago, but I find this extremely hard to believe. She talked to someone who went to Stanford for a year, came back home to Temple, loved it, and then went to Chicago for grad school, but I think their case is an extreme abnormality. </p>
<p>She doesn’t actually like anything about Temple, but a bit of nervousness is seriously influencing her decision, and I don’t think she’s being particularly rational. I suppose the question is, does anyone actually care about prestige in the real world? Will the experience at Temple be that comparable in opportunity to UChicago?</p>