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Op: UT>>>>>>>>>>UNew Haven and Austin >>>>>>New Haven.
I’d it came down to these two UT would win by far.
Since the “one to beat” is UT (perhaps with Plan II and 40Acres, but this is much reachier/unpredictable) you should look for Universities that will offer something different (especially in terms of classroom experience and resources.)
Have you run the NPC on all your colleges yet and shown all the results to your parents? Or filled one out with them through college board, saving data, and completed a dozen more like that?
@GWYalie1994
I’m sure you mean well, but…
UCs don’t have any aid; NYU, gwu, have lousy aid. They are neither for kids whose parents can’t pay nor for kids whose parents can but won’t.
If the parents can’t pay (75k income and under, and up to 125k), prestigious schools will compensate, that’s what “meet need” means, but in many cases (EFC non zero) the parents must still contribute.
If parents won’t pay (have the means but don’t think it matters, don’t have savings, have an unaffordable EFC…) it doesn’t matter to prestigious universities. It wouldn’t be a shame that a talented individual wouldn’t get into prestigious schools (80%, 90%, 95% students are both qualified to get in and rejected by these schools) but rather that the student would get in and the parents would refuse to pay. It happens every year and that’s a real heartbreak.