Gonna CRAZY!! UIUC vs PSU vs UTA vs Drexel vs OSU!! HELP!!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>Since May 1st is coming and I haven’t got my final decision, I turn to CC for help~PLZ!
PLZ help me to select the best-fit school!</p>

<p>I wanna know more about these schools from people who are studying in/graduadated from these schools, only then I can fully know the pros and cons of them, instead of browsing the schools’ pages, u know, only good things flourish.</p>

<p>I picked up these schools after full consideration:</p>

<p>---->University of Illinois at Urbarna-Champaign
---->Penn State University
---->University of Texas at Austin
---->Ohio State University ($6600 Scholarship + Honor Program)
---->Drexel University ($20000 Scholarship)</p>

<p>Waitlist:
---->Washington University in St.Louis (Accept the WL or not??)
---->University of Michigan ( I like it except the weather, terrible)</p>

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<p>And below come with some of my requirements of schools (huh…)</p>

<li><p>FAMOUS
I’m an international student. well.
So I want my school to be very famous, at least nationwide.</p></li>
<li><p>LOCATION
big city will be the best choice, but it doesn’t matter if the surroundings are convenient, well-accommodated, entertaining etc.
I come from a city with millions of people. :)</p></li>
<li><p>MAJOR
I love business-related majors, such as Finance, Actuarial Science, management
and I am also interested in social sciences and engineering.
So my school had better be well-rounded. ( and I can LEARN in its business school besides its fame)</p></li>
<li><p>CLASS
I hate classes with hundreds of people, or even thousands of people.
and I hate classes which usually the TAs teach instead of professors.</p></li>
<li><p>TRANSFER
Weird/Hard Transfer Policy? I hope not, I plan to transfer to California/Boston after my freshman year. So I expect the freshman year won’t be EXTREMELY hard for me to get a satisfying GPA</p></li>
<li><p>SCHOOL
Racial Discrimination?
Unhelpful Faculty?
Unfriendly Student?
lol…nobody likes it</p></li>
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<p>I like UIUC for it being famous nationwide esp the engineering, but its location and business quality are what matters ( hundreds of people crowd in one class, TA </p>

<p>I like PSU for my uncle, who lives in Pennsylvania right now, strongly recommends it to me, but I hear that it is a party school…student unfriendly and likes drinking, not so good for study?)</p>

<p>I like UTA the most for its great location (intern opportunities? ) and its great business school ( I am not admitted to the business honor program, sigh, could I apply for it after enrollment?) , but discrimination…well</p>

<p>I like OSU, the scholarship and the honor program</p>

<p>I like Drexel, mainly for the scholarship ( does Drexel have the policy that share credits with Upenn?)</p>

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<p>To choose a school is pretty hard.
Both have their own pros and cons. and I don’t know too much about schools except what they have offered in their web pages. So I really really needs your help.</p>

<p>THANKS A LOT!!!</p>

<p>PLUS:</p>

<p>Can I accept both UIUC and UTA’s offers???
(since UIUC doesn’t need Deposit if I accept it, my friend tells me to do that, but I’m not sure about it)</p>

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<p>I know my Questions are little bit too much.
Anything you can provide is welcome!!!
Thanks again!!!</p>

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<p>I’d say Drexel since you said that you plan on transfering anyways…And since they offered you scholarship (the most out of all the schools, I’m guessing)</p>

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<p>Go to Illinois. Not only is its engineering program top notch the business is not too shabby either. It has a strong asian population and A LOT of international students. The location is a little rural but it has a nice college town and its not that far from chicago, indy, and st. louis.</p>

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<p>Tough choices, but rest assured all of your choices are good ones! UIUC does have alot of what you ask for: famous internationally for the engineering school especially, no problems with descrimination here (huge international population), and well, it’s friendly because it’s midwest. I don’t know that much about PSU, but I understand the East Coast isn’t as friendly as the midwest (please don’t bash me, east coasters, I’m just trying to be helpful!) and I don’t think Drexel is as well known. UT is great school, well known and all, probably similar to many ways as Illinois. Climate will be better, but not sure about racial descrimination. </p>

<p>A lot of it will depend also on how much money you want to spend. My son is turning down a boatload of money to go to Illinois (sigh), but I think in the long run it’s a good choice. A degree from here will always be meaningful.</p>

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<p>to d101parent
these are all great schools!! so that’s pretty hard for me, an intl student, who know almost nothing about what the usa trully is and also these schools. UIUC and UTA 's cost are almost the same, around 45000/yr, while OSU and Drexel will only cost me less than 30000/yr.</p>

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<p>plus everyone ,</p>

<p>could I accept both UIUC and UTA’s ad at the same time?
(no deposit is needed when accepting UIUC’s offer, and you know, I can’t make my final decision, my friend told me that would be a good idea to accept both! will it matter?)</p>

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<p>If you’re sure you want to transfer after freshman year, then I agree you should go for the cheapest option, because you’re not seeking a degree from here anyway. Why would you want to transfer?</p>

<p>I don’t know if you can accept both at the same time…If they find out, possibly could rescind the offer? Not sure.</p>

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<p>Actually I’m not sure I’ll transfer after the freshman year.
now I’m mainly hesitated between UIUC and UTA, which are too similar.
My mom wants me to go to UIUC for UIUC has a strong faculty which has professor from Harvard, Yale etc (I’m not sure about it,is it true?), while she said UTA is relatively weak in this aspect.</p>

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<p>Not really. UT is also known for its stellar faculty. Faculty quality between the two institution is negligible.</p>