<p>So basically, my choices are coming down between either going to Penn and paying the whole tuition or going to WashU and only paying room and board with tuition covered. </p>
<p>I'm stuck between the two and cant decide. need opinions! thanks :)</p>
<p>washU hands down. Unless you’re talking about M&T program or something like that, you’re not sacrificing much for the ridiculous financial benefit</p>
<p>Necro: I wouldn’t say that. A Penn education is worth a lot. I know someone who could have gotten a full ride or a nearly full ride in the Washington University Scholars Program in Medicine, and he has no regrets for having turned that down for Penn. He wants to go to Penn Med next year, in fact : )</p>
<p>I would agree with necro, tuition + room&board + all the others things can equal to $50,000+ for UPenn. In other words after four years $200,000+ ! (Yikes)
Would you have enough money to survive that AND grad/med school? Depends, but the money will be difficult to get.
Wash U would be around $15,000 (room and board plus the other personal things). That’s around $60,000 for four years.
Susie: yes, Penn education is worth a lot but really $150,000+ more?? I kinda don’t think so. Especially how the OP will be working a long time to pay off the debt.</p>
<p>you also can’t consider the 150k debt like any other debt. You can shed other debt in bankruptcy. Education loans follow you to the grave or to satisfaction.</p>
<p>I’d pick washU ESPECIALLY if OP doesn’t want to do business but something like medicine instead. I have never heard of a patient actually checking a doctor’s license - the industry standard in marketing is word-of-mouth referral so the objective is to get the degree cheap and fast.</p>
<p>i want to study stats/math, in the business field. but I want a more solid math foundation undergrad. So, I didn’t apply to wharton in penn.</p>
<p>Hmmm…the only thing is: wouldn’t your parents be able to pay for Penn? A family friend turned down Cornell for a full ride to the Rutgers School of Pharmacy. Her parents had the money to send her to Cornell, but they said that she could keep the money if she went to Rutgers. She ended up doing this and has discovered that she hates Rutgers, but that’s besides the point.</p>
<p>I’m not comparing Rutgers to WashingtonU, I’m simply wondering if the financial situation is the same: do your parents have the money to send you to Penn? If they do, I believe that Penn would be a good investment.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>You should visit WashU. You might end up liking the campus and environment. Then you can make easier decision.</p>
<p>My parnents are the same. If I end up going to washu, they would give me the money they were originally going ot invest in my college education. </p>
<p>I visited both washU and penn. and loved both colleges 
washU is new, comtemporary, and everyones super friendly. Penn has the traditional college feel, good weather, and nice ppl.</p>
<p>If you would be happy at both I think WashU is the obvious choice here.</p>
<p>I think you have to decide whether the ~$130,000 outweighs the potential for a higher salary as a Penn graduate later on. I would weight the opportunities at each school and try to figure out which school would provide you with the most opportunities to make the highest possible future income.</p>
<p>Good luck with your decision!</p>
<p>Penn isn’t worth $130,000 more than WashU. Seriously. I admit Penn is a better school, but not THAT much better.</p>
<p>If Penn is not worth the money, then Harvard and Princeton are also not worth $130, 000 over WashU (if you earn less than 200k), unless you are going into business. In that case it is worth every cent. I would go to Wharton over Yale with 10k, simply because the potential of getting an extremely high paying PE or hedge fund job is more likely at Penn than anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p>WashU hands down. Go to Penn (or any other beast school) and save your money. It’s not like your comparing Rutgers to Penn, your comparing a fabulously regarded school to an Ivy. WashU all the way!</p>
<p>Are you planning on going to graduate school? If so, WashU is the obvious choice.</p>
<p>Even if not, I don’t think you’d be at any disadvantage coming from WashU, except for exclusively-recruited careers (high-prestige consulting, for example). Penn definitely has career channels that WashU does not, but they probably aren’t worth $130k.</p>
<p>If you’re extremely wealthy, go to Penn… if not, go to WashU.</p>
<p>why do people think “extreme wealth” lowers the value of money? There are better uses of $130,000 to even a billionaire than to waste it on a marginal differences between 2 schools.</p>