<p>here is my final college list:</p>
<p>Dartmouth (Less than 12K: Pending)
U Penn (Wharton School: Fin-Aid Pending)
Brown (No PLME: Pending)
Northwestern (Fin-aid Pending)
WUSTL (Full-ride)
JHU (No Financial Aid)
Emory
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
UC Berkeley (Pending)
UCLA (about 20K)</p>
<p>My intended major is Biology or Economics. I am a pre-med student but I may change my mind to go to business or Law school. I still want to have an amazing pre-med program at college.</p>
<p>Honey, this is the Princeton forum. </p>
<p>Nonetheless, if I were presented with those choices, I would take the full ride without any hesitation.</p>
<p>^Agree, I think full ride to WUSTL would be great.</p>
<p>Hmm, how about the ivys. Especially, Dartmouth’s undergrad education is one of the very bests in the nation.</p>
<p>^ WUSTL’s undergrad education is also one of the very best in the nation, especially for pre-med. Take the full ride. Can’t argue with it.</p>
<p>You can easily eliminate a lot of the schools from that list like JHU and UCLA because it would be ridiculous to pay that much when you have been offered a full-ride to WUSTL. It’s difficult to make a decision like this when you don’t know how much fin-aid you will get at schools you have been admitted to like Northwestern. Your best bet is definitely to take the full-ride at WUSTL.</p>
<p>As for the ivies - meh. I don’t think the undergrad education you would receive at Dartmouth is worth 48 K more than WUSTL’s. In fact, one could even make the case that WUSTL’s academics are comparable if not superior, especially for the premed track.</p>
<p>^
I am on Harvard Wait-list. If I have to pay 15-20K/yr for Harvard undergrad education, would WUSTL full-ride still be better? I know undergrad name does not value that much, but I still want to take the best of the best.
Also, how much does Wharton Undergrad education value?</p>