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<p>Whoaaa now, I think we need some disclosure here. This coming from a lifelong NC resident and by the looks of it rival NCSU parent! :p</p>
<p>hmm on a side note, I’ve been doing some thinking. I was offered a tuition free scholarship (ok, that’s only $1,500) to UMass-Amherst (not including fees which is still a lot but I would be in-state) but I am paying full tuition at Clemson. I calculated the difference and I would be spending 50K more going to Clemson. Do you think I made a mistake financially?</p>
<p>You could save the $72K, major in economics at UConn, then use the savings on a solid MBA program following a couple years of work experience.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the responses. It’s always good to get perspectives from other points of view. We are learning things that we will have to put to use in four years when it is the sibling’s turn.</p>
<p>*hmm on a side note, I’ve been doing some thinking. I was offered a tuition free scholarship (ok, that’s only $1,500) to UMass-Amherst (not including fees which is still a lot but I would be in-state) but I am paying full tuition at Clemson. I calculated the difference and I would be spending 50K more going to Clemson. Do you think I made a mistake financially? *</p>
<p>Pierre, </p>
<p>you weren’t given any scholarship money for Clemson? Or did you get the OOS portion waved?</p>
<p>Are you borrowing that $50 difference or can your parents easily pay it?</p>
<p>my parents can pay for that (well at least they’ve told me they can), and no I didn’t get the OOS waiver or any scholarship money (I have the SAT and ACT scores, I was just ranked in the bottom 50% of my high school haha)</p>
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<p>I am currently in the same situation with my S. Was wondering how things ended up with your daughter. Can you share your experience between UConn and UNC?</p>
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<p>gwt:</p>
<p>We were in a similar situation two years ago. D was admitted to UConn Engineering Honors in-state, with half scholarship, vs other supposedly more prestigious schools (Cornell, Northwestern, Michigan OOS) all of which had much greater costs.</p>
<p>Our view, as parents was that the “Honors” Designation didn’t mean much at the end of the day. The diploma would be UConn, which is all anyone really would care about. Our D also expressed a strong preference to other schools.</p>
<p>In our situation, we were fortunate in that we had planned in advance and could afford the higher expense without serious hardship or compromising other educational opportunities down the road. We believe that the more prestigious universities offered an overall brighter student body, better education and better opportunities down the road. (I understand that others Strongly do not agree with our conclusions, but that was our process).</p>
<p>This is not to say that she wouldn’t have received a fine education at UConn. Also, honestly, I understand that cost is a major factor, and that families absolutely must balance the impact of extra tuition vs the somewhat amorphous benefits of a higher prestige school. Different people will come out differently on these issues and there is no right or wrong answer in many cases.</p>
<p>I know that you will read many responses saying the extra money is not worth it. Suffice it to say that some of us disagree. Despite the cost difference, in our case, when the other acceptances began to roll in, UConn was pretty much dropped from consideration.</p>
<p>gwt2017:</p>
<p>We ended up going with UConn, which has worked out well for my daughter. She decided during her first year that she didn’t want to stick with business, so she began taking pre-pharmacy courses in her 2nd year. She took the PCAT exam and was admitted in the pharmacy program at UConn, where she is about to complete her first year.</p>
<p>Of course we will never know what would have happened had she gone to UNC, but she is happy at UConn. UNC also has a pharmacy program that operates pretty much the same way, so she would have had to apply for admission to that program also.</p>
<p>Essentially she would end up going six years with either program, but the extra cost of attending UNC would have been increased by two years.</p>
<p>Also, she has taken summer courses at UConn, some of which were at a local campus right in the city we live in. This would have been much more difficult to pull off at UNC.</p>
<p>I will agree with the above poster that I don’t believe that the “Honors” designation will mean that much after she graduates, although of course she can put it on her resume.</p>
<p>But if she stays in the Connecticut area after graduating I think that she will make out just fine having a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from UConn. UConn is ranked 22nd vs. UNC’s ranking of 20th for public school pharmacy programs by FindTheBest.com.</p>