Hello all,
I’ve been a long-time lurcher but this is my first time posting (I’m sorry if this is in the wrong form). I’m immensely grateful to have been admitted to these schools, but now I’ll have to pick between them.
What’s making this choice extra-hard is that I truly have no idea what I want to study/become. While my extracurriculars in high school were mostly in the humanities, my grades in STEM were also excellent. It’s clear that Rice is the better STEM school, and Gtown is the better humanities school. I do have a sustained interest in international relations, however. Nonetheless, academic flexibility is super-important for me.
I also would appreciate a smaller school, which is why I haven’t defaulted to USC. While Georgetown is big, SFS itself is a small subdivision of the larger university. I think that I would like the Rice community-feel the most out of all three. If anyone can discuss some of the other merits of USC, I’d appreciate that.
Leaving college, I think that I’d like to go into consulting at first, but I really have no clear career path. Consulting would allow me to see a lot of different fields, I would think. Do Rice students do well “breaking into” consulting in Houston/nationwide?
Any first-hand anecdotes or other comments would be greatly appreciated.
What is the cost of attendance for each school ?
Also, what do you think got you accepted to SFS ?
Rice is full freight (59K) and I haven’t received my fin-aid package from Gtown yet.
I have had a very “international” childhood and my curriculum shows an interest in IR.
Rice is at least $60,000 now. Georgetown is over $68,000. USC is about $70,000, but your half tuition scholarship should reduce it to about $42,000 per year.
@helloworld000, congrats on getting into three great schools. Just for clarification, USC is almost $76,000 (not $70,000), and if you want to live in McCarthy, which is possible since you are a Presidential scholar or NMF, it would be at least $77,000 prior to the half tuition, so $50k for freshman year. Don’t know if that impacts your decision but you should have the correct numbers to consider. S is also a Presidential at USC and was waitlisted at GU. You have a great opportunity at GU since SFS is the hardest school to gain admission and very prestigious. It may be very competitive and extremely rigorous, but you would have many employment opportunities upon graduation. Having options can be a blessing but can also be difficult to figure which one to choose! One thing in favor of USC is that they are very good about allowing you to explore interests, double major or minor in different fields, whereas that would not likely be possible at GU. Many students interested in STEM are also minoring in business which adds marketability.