<p>christ, if you choose michigan after reading this thread I wouldn’t know what to say.</p>
<p>id label u as an insult to all of humanity then</p>
<p>You’ve also got a post on the WashU thread hoping you’ll get off the wait list there. Does the same financial situation affect you there as well? I just ask because people here have put alot of thoughts into the posts about Michigan vs Ut Austin, and it seems you have alot of balls in play right now.</p>
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<p>The best advice for your case</p>
<p>I had the exact same problem and I chose my state school. Yes, Michigan is a great school and more prestigious, but is the prestige really worth 80K of your own debt? I would definitely choose UT. You can probably get a pretty high GPA there and into many honors programs/deans lists. Even though it doesn’t seem like such a great idea now, you’ll be glad when you’re not in so much debt 10 years from now.</p>
<p>i think you guys are right. it’s a hard fact to face, especially when i have friends all around me choosing their more prestigious school over UT and taking out all those student loans. One of my friends is going to Cornell where she will be taking out 30K in loans a year to afford. I absolutely cannot stand UT but I suppose in the long run it WILL be the right decision to make. </p>
<p>Ginger2222, I’m on the WashU, Vandy, Emory, Hopkins, BC, and Chicago waitlists. These schools are a different situation because they will probably offer me decent financial aid (seeing how they aren’t state schools like Michigan). But if accepted off of any of these waitlists I will take the information provided in this thread to consideration before making a decision. Thank you all. I guess this is just really hard to see at age 18. Because right now I feel like I CAN’T be happy and/or prestigious at any college but one I really look forward to going to. I guess I just have to suck it up.</p>
<p>UT, if you can get transfer scholarship maybe transfer to umich after 1-2 years.</p>
<p>Something to consider: UT offered scholarships, Michigan didn’t. Scholarships for transfer students are VERY few. If you start at UT and decide to transfer to Michigan, you can only gain financially since you got to use the UT money and Michigan wasn’t going to give you anything anyway. But if you go to Michigan, realize DEAR GOD I AM DROWNING IN DEBT and then have to transfer to UT, you’d likely lose your UT money.</p>
<p>So by choosing to go to UT first you are leaving your options more open than they are if you start at a school you may not be able to stay at the whole time. If you hate UT, you can leave and go someplace else. But milk that UT money for all it’s worth, who knows, maybe you’ll like it more once you get there-- you would not be the first to misjudge a school.</p>
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You will enjoy the things in life that lower debt will afford you. You will be sad for her when you watch her struggle with that debt and compromise her lifestyle for 10, 20 or more years. But you will be glad we had your back on this. </p>
<p>If you get off the wait-list at the 100% meet need schools, then to my mind you’d have an out. But please also keep an open mind - you really could be happy at UT if you allow yourself to play it from that state of mind.</p>