<p>Hi Everyone, So, I need some thoughts for my college decision. Things to know about me:
I am a white, jewish, female from the northeast.
I want to go to graduate school but don't know whether this will be in Medicine, Law, or Business, so please give thoughts on all three.
My family can pay for college, but money definitely helps.
SAT: 2310, GPA: 3.79 UW, NMF. All of my acceptances are OOS.
(This thread is all barring an acceptance off of my 2 major wait lists).</p>
<p>Acceptances:
UCLA
UVA
UCB (Spring Admit)
George Washington University-($15K)
UMaryland (Honors, $12K)
Northeastern (Honors, $16K)
UMiami (Honors, $24K)
UCI (Regents/Honors, $2.5K)
UAlabama (Full Ride)</p>
<p>What would you do if you were me!?!</p>
<p>Out of your top schools, I’d pick UVA (seems more personal than the UCs). If money is an issue, I’d take the full ride.</p>
<p>UMiami seems like a good compromise, decent for medicine, business, and law. Also won’t require you to break the bank like any of the UCs, but you can afford it. It’s much better than Northeastern, and I’d say better than GWU. Maryland is a good second choice.</p>
<p>Are the money amounts the amount of scholarship or aid, or the net cost after applying the scholarship or aid?</p>
<p>Medical and law school are expensive, so saving money to apply to medical or law school is important.</p>
<p>MBA schools like to see work experience after undergraduate, so a school and major that lead to a good job after graduation is important.</p>
<p>The money is scholarship per year.</p>
<p>Am I crazy to think that Miami is too much of a party school?</p>
<p>What would you actual major be? (No specific undergraduate major is required for these professional schools.)</p>
<p>Political science or criminology, maybe business economics at ucla.</p>
<p>ALABAMA! your getting a full ride! and they have a top law school and a growing business school. Save your parents money to help for grad school.</p>
<p>Thing is, I really want to get in to a top/Ivy type grad school, and I don’t know how feasible that will be from Alabama! I’d rather pay in full and have a better shot!!</p>
<p>Hate to do this but I’m really freaking out so, bump.</p>
<p>LOL, it’s completely possible to go from Alabama to a top grad school. It all depends on how well you do, not necessarily where you go. On your list, four schools (UCs and UVA) will cost you a great deal of money ($ you could spend on grad school), and you’re left with three privates and two publics. UMD will cost you around 28k out of state, and UMiami would be in that same range. GWU and Northeastern are quite expensive and offered you less aid than Miami, so I would narrow it down to UA, UM, and UMD if you don’t want to go to Alabama. You’ll be fine for grad school.</p>
<p>I’m sorry for mentioning the money in the first place. In reality, my parents are paying for undergrad and I’m paying for grad so the “saving money” is not an issue at this point and please ignore it as a main factor. Prestige matters to me, stupid though that may be.</p>
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<p>Then UVA or maybe GW based upon where you want to go to school. ;)</p>
<p>Still go to UA. If your parents are paying undergrad, then just get full ride and do well in college and save there money for grad school youll be debt free. UA will definitely help you get to a great grad school just do well.</p>
<p>For law or med school admissions, it shouldn’t much matter which of these schools you attend (assuming you do equally well at any of them). For a major like political science, you would probably find big differences in intellectual atmosphere (and maybe instructional quality) across some of these schools. For a pre-professional major like criminology, maybe not so much.</p>
<p>Looks like Alabama is the one to beat. As a Jewish female from the NE with those scores, you might be a fish out of water in poli sci at a fair-to-middlin’ state university in the deep south. However, unless your family is quite wealthy, it’s hard to justify paying $100K-$200K more for the alternatives. If the money truly is not decisive (but still “nice to have”), I’d say UCB, UVa, UCLA, and maybe Miami with the discount, are all sufficiently more desirable than Alabama to consider paying that premium (but maybe that’s just my Yankee bias coming through).</p>
<p>Have you visited Alabama in springtime? Maybe you’d like it a lot.</p>