Stanford or Harvard or full ride to UNC?

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<p>So</p>

<p>Stanford for $36k a year (with financial aid)
Harvard for $32k a year (also including financial aid)
or UNC CH for $0 a year (tuition, room, board, books, and fees)</p>

<p>Interests: Political Science, Creative Writing
Career Plans: probably a lawyer, but I'd like to write for the New Yorker or Esquire
My parents are able to pay for S or H, but not comfortably</p>

<p>What would you do?
What do you think I should do?</p>

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<p>Stanford was my dream school so id pick that 100%</p>

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<p>Wow you must be extremely smart. I would not be able to pass up Harvard no matter what. If you are in a bind with money, goto UNC Chapel and get a fantastic education there as well.</p>

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<p>Full ride to UNC.</p>

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<p>Go to Harvard for heaven’s sake!</p>

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<p>Full Ride to UNC.</p>

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<p>Harvard. Especially if you grew up in North Carolina, you already know that part of the country. (This is my default advice; go where you will be exposed to a new regional culture. Stanford is also a fine choice in your situation, but you can only choose one college.)</p>

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<p>You’re parents must be sooo proud lol. Go with Harvard, it’s just overall more impressive because even though it may not actually be the #1 school in the world most people believe it is. But only if you’re rich, if you’re poor go with UNC, which is blah.</p>

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<p>you sure that’s all harvard’s willing to give you? they’ve been very generous with aid these days…</p>

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<p>These people do not know what they are talking about…</p>

<p>UNC is amazing and you’ll probably get a better education there.</p>

<p>FREE EDUCATION? How can you pass that up? You do not want to live years in debt. You will definitely get the same job if you leave UNC as you do Harvard. Smart people always rise to the top.</p>

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<p>Full ride to UNC</p>

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<p>it may be a good idea to save harvard for grad school</p>

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Do your parents plan to financially support you through law school as well? Adding law school tuition on top of $128K or $144K for undergrad will make things very expensive. </p>

<p>I really find it very, very difficult to believe that four years at Stanford or Yale is worth over $100K more than at UNC.</p>

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Feel free to replace “Morehead” with “Robertson” in your case.</p>

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<p>IBclass06:</p>

<p>Most parents do not pay for their children’s graduate school education. I’m pretty sure most students take out loans.</p>

<p>Anyway, OP no one knows your financial situation. Go to whatever school makes sense. Keep in mind though that if you want to do any profession that requires making good connections to make a good salary, Harvard is probably the place to go.</p>

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<p>Depends what you wanna do…</p>

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<p>

First off, law school is professional school rather than graduate school. Graduate students are usually funded by the university. </p>

<p>The cost of attendance at a law school like [url=<a href=“http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/sfs/basics/cost/budget.html]Harvard[/url”>http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/sfs/basics/cost/budget.html]Harvard[/url</a>] is over $60K a year. Personally, I wouldn’t want to be that far in debt when an alternative would be paying it off with money saved from undergrad. Depending on the subfield, law is not an extremely stable career.</p>

<p>I’m heading out for further education in the fall after graduating from a top 10 university that I have absolutely loved, so I see the benefits of Harvard and Stanford. I also know that financial comfort can be very important, and UNC is a fantastic school (the Robertson scholarship is icing on the cake).</p>

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<p>“it may be a good idea to save harvard for grad school”</p>

<p>No one should assume they’re going to get into Harvard for grad school. In any program. This decision is not an easy one, but you should make it assuming that this is your one shot at Harvard.</p>

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<p>you guys have been astoundingly helpful</p>

<p>for those who have wondered,</p>

<p>I am from Boston, not NC (so UNC would be something new whereas I’m taking my multi-variable calc class at Harvard right now)</p>

<p>I’m also a straight male (but LGBT tolerance is important to me) who enjoys an active social scene</p>

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<p>Haha all these “go to UNC” posts…</p>

<p>…smells like a lot of people on the WL</p>

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<p>My brother, a now-senior at UNC - Chapel Hill, was awarded the Robertson’s Scholarship when he graduated high school as well. He was offered admission to Yale and UPenn, and ever since he had been a freshman in high school, he had dreamed of attending Yale to study political science. However, he received no financial aid. (ZIPPO, NADA) And my parents told him what they could afford to pay. He was extremely saddened and was faced with a difficult choice: to accept a large sum of debt, or to attend UNC on a full scholarship with money to spare for grad school. He half-heartedly chose the latter. He now says he doesn’t want to graduate from college. He just loves it THAT much. He does not regret his decision AT ALL, and he would not have traded his college experience for the world.</p>

<p>Personally, I think that you should ultimately believe in the fact that YOU and only YOU make the final decision, and I’m sure that whatever decision you make will make you happy… You really can’t “lose” in picking out of these amazing choices :)</p>