<p>Wow, so I'm done getting all my letters....Here's the possibilities, but I'm still not sure where I want to go. I'm science or math major, but still not sure, and right now want to be pred-med. Any Advice? Even if you don't know about all of them, any factoid will be helpful.
List...(in no particular order)
1. UC Berkeley...big, I don't want to get "lost"
2. UCLA...smaller, same deal though
3. USC (18.5k scholarship)...more likely than a UC, also nearly same price as UC w, scholarship, more attention, but this instead of 4 or 5?
4. Harvey Mudd...expensive, but is it worth it?
5. Cornell...also expensive, same question....
6. Carnegie Mellon...don't see what I can get here that outweighs 4 or 5</p>
<p>I would go to Cornell or USC.</p>
<p>I hate to break it to you, but Cal, UCLA and USC all have 32,000-38,000 students. UCLA is the largest, but Cal is almost as large and USC is not much smaller. Cornell is also quite big, with 20,000 students. IF you don't like large schools, forget all 4 of those. CMU is mid-sized and HMC is tiny.</p>
<p>I didn't mean that I don't like big schools. But at Berkeley I've heard people say that you can get "lost" as in you don't get enough individual attention and there's potential to piddle away 4 good years. At USC, I've heard that they care more about undergrads and will advise you so that doesn't happen. Basically what I was trying to say about Berkeley is that it doesn't seem they care too much about whether or not you are succeeding.</p>
<p>I say USC or Cornell.</p>
<p>You should go to USC I think - large, but they will care alot more about you than at either of the UCs, and you got a half tuition scholarship to boot.</p>