Tufts or NYU

Applying to College
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<p>Stuck in a tough choice. Receiving 20k from NYU, 3K from Tufts. Help?</p>

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<p>How much is your family prepared to pay for u/g?
If you spend less, will they set the balance aside for graduate school?</p>

<p>How much will your loans be, if any, for each school?</p>

3

<p>I’m assuming you’re still for IR.</p>

<p>NYU then for the connections and that financial aid.</p>

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<p>My family is prepared to pay for either school and graduate school I would be more responsible for. In that sense both schools are on the table and are about the same cost. Loans would be about the same for each school as well simply because NYU is offering me more but it costs more, Tufts is offering me less and thus I would be paying about 5-8k more to go to tufts. However the living expenses at NYU are more simply because it is NYC. Traveling would be cheaper from NyC though.
In essence, both schools are about the same amount of money.
Pros of NYU: closer to my family, big city, internships
Cons: big school, expensive city, bothersome administration
Pros of Tufts: good academically for IR, small school, more attention from professors
Cons: weather, not in city, far from family
There is a rough outline of my choices.</p>

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<p>Weather? NYC and Boston have essentially the same weather.</p>

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<p>If costs are about the same, I would go with Tufts. It has a college campus, better college experience, and I personally think it is a better school academically.</p>

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<p>if both schools are comparable financially, I’d vote for Tufts. Looking at your pros/cons:

  • travel costs from NYC to Boston are minimal (the MegaBus can be $9/each way)
  • the distance to your family is minimal (we’re not talking about LA to NYC; it’s Boston!)
  • the opportunity to be in new setting, on a pretty college campus
  • you can get internships from either school
  • Tufts is near a big city, since that seems to interest you
  • Tufts is more intimate campus, more ‘classic’ college experience, ‘better’ academically
  • the weather is a trivial difference; it’s 4 years not 40 years, and, in all likelihood, you’ll be abroad for a semester or two</p>

<p>Re-reading your post… I think you are feeling hesitance to leave home. Boston is really really not far! Some folks commute!</p>

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<p>Actually my family is in Miami,FL there is where the difference in travel costs comes in, and the weather.
But you’re right college is about evolving academically and tufts will most likely provide that better. Thank you so much for your input.</p>