Im having a lot of trouble deciding what college I want to choose for next year. I have been accepted to Lehigh, the university of Vermont, Fordham, Denison, Michigan State, Butler, Colorado Boulder, Dayton and waitlisted at Berkeley, Syracuse, Michigan and Villanova.I am looking to study business, my top choices for me are UVM and Lehigh. I have always wanted to get out of the mid west (from Michigan), that’s my main reason for throwing out all the midwest college choices, and Fordham and boulder are too expensive. One of the main divides between Vermont and Lehigh for me is that Vermont would cost me 28,000, while Lehigh would cost me 50,000. I met with both schools and Leigh’s price could go down a couple thousand for me possibly while Vermont’s could go up for me a couple thousand after my first year as well. My original top college choices were Syracuse and Lehigh, because I had always wanted a prestigious university and business school.
Vermont had been a top option for me because I loved the location in burlington and its close proximity to the mountains, I think i would be super happy there because of everything there is to do. Vermont’s business school though is not as highly ranked as Lehigh’s. I recently went to the admitted students day at Vermont though and met with the business school and really enjoyed them and believe I could become successful there if i put in the effort.
although Lehigh is a lot more expensive it is also a lot more prestigious than Vermont and has a better business school. I like many other aspects about Lehigh too and believe I would be happy there too but in essence what really matters to me there is the business school.
So basically my dilemma is choosing the more prestigious and better business school at Lehigh, which is also way more expensive, or going to Vermont which I think i will love being at,but i just think i could regret turning down such an amazing opportunity at Lehigh.