<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>I'm really confused about deciding where to go so I was just wondering if I can get some input and opinions as to where I should go.</p>
<p>I'll probably double major in Music Performance and History. I received a full-ride to UNC-Chapel Hill and I have at least 1/2 scholarship to UMichigan, but that doesn't include room and board. What do you all think? </p>
<p>UNC or UMichigan?</p>
<p>Thanks for all your help!! Please Respond!</p>
<p>Michigan is a fair bit more prestigious, but not so much more that it is worth sacrificing a full-ride. I’d advise you to take UNC.</p>
<p>Take the full ride to UNC. Michigan is a little bit more prestigious, but it is still a peer of UNC. Both Chapel Hill and Anne Arbor are great college towns, but UNC benefits from better weather and is located in an area that has plenty of opportunities for jobs and internships. Like I said, I’d go with UNC.</p>
<p>Congrats on your accomplishments.</p>
<p>Do the math…a half scholarship without room and board is not half the cost…and UNC is a FULL ride.</p>
<p>It makes no sense to walk away from a full ride. Your degree will more than likely require grad school for employment and grad school is all about loans; there aren’t many scholarships available, if any. Save your money for grad school. Graduating debt free is something that should not be taken lightly these days.</p>
<p>Incidentally I would have said the exact same thing if it had been a full ride to Michigan and half to UNC…take the money…don’t walk away from full ride.</p>
<p>Hope my son lands in the same shoes next year! We just visited UNC - it’s just too beautiful to turn down!</p>
<p>^^^I would turn down UNC for Michigan if they were both full-rides. However, they are not. Go to UNC and congrats on your scholarship!</p>
<p>Thank you all!
The only thing that is holding me back from UNC is that UNC has a music department which much less prestigious than UMichigan. For music, UMichigan is a far better school… even then do you all think I should go with UNC?</p>
<p>THank you all so much for your opinions and help! 
I truly appreciate it!! :)</p>
<p>I still agree with others that it is not worth the cost differential.</p>
<p>Well I’m not so sure anymore now that I have looked at how relatively weak UNC is in music. I just assumed UNC had a good music school. There are very few schools that do just about every discipline well that they offer to students. Michigan is certainly one of them and it might well be worth the 50% discount that the OP will receive to attend U-M.</p>
<p>I have some friends majoring in music at UNC at they all seem to love it. Not only that, but UNC just finished building a great new music facility just last year. I’d still stick with UNC-hard to turn down a full ride to a great school like UNC.</p>
<p>Since you are interested in music, you are facing a tough choice. You’ll definitely get a much better education at Michigan, but UNC is a whole lot cheaper.</p>
<p>What about if you went to UNC and saved the money, and spent it on going to conservatory?</p>
<p>If the price difference is $15k/yr, you might save $60k and spend that on a year in Paris?</p>
<p>I still think that grad school (or a conservatory) will be required after graduating from either school. Your money will be better spent on post grad education than undergrad and it will more significantly impact your employment etc. Take the full ride. Your post grad pedigree is a far more important piece of the puzzle.</p>
<p>Cuse: do your friends also double major with music? do they find double majoring with music difficult?</p>
<p>thank you everybody! all of your comments are thoughtful and helpful :)</p>
<p>I agree with you rjk, do you think double majoring at UMich will be doable with music? thanks!</p>
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<p>Someone in studio with me is a music major and premed. I know that premed isn’t a major, but this shows that you’ll have time outside of the music major. OP, I’m a music minor at UNC, so while I don’t know all the ins and outs of the music major, I’d be happy to answer questions about the department for you.</p>
<p>phonyreal: Thanks! I was wondering if your friend who is double majoring… do they have some free time? I ask this because while I do want to be challenged in college and work hard, I most definitely want to have the ideal college social experience by hanging out with friends and enjoying the college life. So with that in mind, do you think it is manageable to double major in like history and of course music, while having enough time to hang out and make friends? Also, how do you like the college life at UNC? What has your experience been like? Thanks so much for helping me :)</p>
<p>Sunshine = Happiness</p>
<p>Go to UNC.</p>
<p>Dude, I am in the same boat as you and this has to be one of the hardest decisions ever. Do you pick the cheaper school or the school that has your major? The only thing that makes this decision easy for me is b/c I live in NC, so the cost to attend is so much cheaper than attending UofM out of state. In the end I think that I will just go to UNC b/c it is cheaper, good school and I want to go to med school…so not really wanting to be id debt already. Congrats on the scholarship to UNC and I hope things work out for you :)</p>
<p>BlueFox</p>
<p>In all honesty, save your money. UNC will prepare you well for Med school and there is no reason to pay OOS tuition to UM for pre med. Med school can be VERY expensive…my S is finishing his second year and he is very grateful to have graduated debt free since most of his classmates are already $200-250K plus in debt (from undergrad and med) and still have two more years to go.</p>
<p>Bluefox: Thanks and good luck in your decision too! Let me know when you have officially decided… and thanks to everyone as well who have voiced their opinions. </p>
<p>i’ll post my final decision when I have one :)</p>