Somewhere with the climate of Stanford, the “cool factor” of NYU, the rigor of Harvard, the quirkiness of Tufts, the open curriculum of Brown, and the journalism major of Northwestern. THAT is a school I would jump all over for free tuition.
However, since NU & NYU are the only ones with journalism majors, I’d pick NU because A) Medill’s more well-known and seemingly more respected, B) it’s got D1 sports (though quality of said sports varies across the board), C) it’s not so overwhelmingly big, D) a definite campus area rather than no real campus, and E) it’s within a day’s drive/flight of home if need be.
UCLA or Cal. I’m OOS and I really want to go to college in California, but dislike the secluded/quiet area of Stanford. I want to experience the city, for once.
I would love a full-ride scholarship for like 5 years at Embry Riddle so that I could double major in aerospace engineering and the pilot training degree in which you would get your ATP certification by the end of it. That would be so awesome - to be an ATP certified pilot and an aerospace engineer. I would then ideally work as an engineer and fly on the side. They do have part-time (sort of on-call) pilots for large airlines; I’d love to do that as well as recreational flying.
But in real life, I am pursuing a degree in just aerospace engineering and trying to make a go of the flying on my own dime and time, which isn’t exactly easy.
I think this is my third time posting in this thread and every time I do, my answer changes. I can’t believe I said UCLA and Stanford last time. I dislike both of them now. I don’t really have a dream college these days.
MIT or Stanford… Not sure. Both have the academics I’m looking for, great major programs in what I’m interested in; one is closer to home, but one offers an experience in a place I’ve never been before. One is someplace I’ve visited all my life, and one is an entirely new adventure. But it would be an extremely difficult choice between the two.
