<p>yea i’ve taken officials to all these schools, so that constitutes meeting coaches, staying with one of the players, meeting the whole team, watching practice, the whole nine yards, and to be completely honest my high school training regiment was so bad that any of these coaches would be a tremendous upgrade. Athletically UVA, Mich, have slightly more success than UCLA, but UCLA recently revamped their coaching staff, so they have a ton of upside.</p>
<p>Sounds like you’re most interested in UCLA to me.</p>
<p>lol y do people keep saying that, unless im showing that sub consciously im no more interested in ucla than i am in michigan uva or penn</p>
<p>I understand how difficult a decision like this is but considering your position etc… is there any other school(s) you would rather attend than these four with the same scholarship? Although these schools are similar with academics etc… they are different ( and often very) in other terms. Also, you should probably ask is your main goal is to become a famous sport player or a different career path…</p>
<p>well stanford but they’re not offering enough money, and they can’t offer more because of the schools budget cuts on athletic scholarship money.</p>
<p>^
Well I definately would still consider Stanford, probably could try finding athletic scholarships, academics etc… to equal the balance. For a school like Stanford, eventhough it may not be a fullride and say 5-7k in loans compared to UCLA, UVA, UMich, and Penn fullrides its often well worth it when considering its your prefered school.</p>
<p>no its like stanford is only offering 30% of a 50,000 dollar a year education compared to fulls for the other schools, and i come from very humble means so thats really out of the question.</p>
<p>Oh I see, thats understandable.
( If you qualified for need base aid maybe you would get near full ride)</p>
<p>eoliver, lets’s say you are considering UCLA, Michigan, and UVA (I’m bringing the conversation BACK to where it needs to be. Forget about Stanford which is irrelevant here). Which of the three school attracted you the most?</p>
<p>well from pure ttraction I would have to say it was a tie between ucla and uva. I do like michigan alot, but UVA and UCLA I liked slightly better. But after the like a ton of otehr factors come into play and it puts them all even.</p>
<p>One other consideration re: California. Is your scholarship fixed or will is slide with cost of tuition…since tuition is going up 32% in Cali? Just a consideration ; ) My s. has two fixed scholarships and every time there’s a tuition raise it’s out of pocket…Not a major consideration if you’re in state at an in-state school…but at OOS rates it can add up quickly over 4 years at even a modest increase of 5% annually (compounded).</p>
<p>I would definitely go to an Ivy League. I dont give a crap about what other people say about financial tuition, major, blah blah blah. It’s an IVY LEAGUE school for gods sake!</p>
<p>^^ Choosing a college simply because it is an Ivy League school (with no regards to major and environment) is borderline stupid.</p>
<p>I agree tenisghs, I would much rather have a great school (Like Michigan/UVA/UCLA) with an atmosphere that I like instead of the title “Ivy” at an atmosphere that I don’t</p>
<p>“I would definitely go to an Ivy League. I dont give a crap about what other people say about financial tuition, major, blah blah blah. It’s an IVY LEAGUE school for gods sake!”</p>
<p>Well I can understand that if you’re talking about a top Ivy, not one of the lesser ones.</p>
<p>well yes rjkofnovi, thats what i was trying to point out. I totally expected answers like that from people like *****ghs,jkaplan1212… but whatever I’m just pointing out a true fact. unless you’re going to stand out among the tens of thousands of students in Michigan I’d rather go to an Ivy. You think I don’t consider atmosphere and other factors? you’re just plain ignorant and stupid lol</p>
<p>The Ivy League school being discussed here is Penn. Not Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. In the case of the OP, I would not say just go to Penn over the other schools because it’s an Ivy. On another point, the news out of California is not good at all concerning state funding of UCLA (among other schools of course). I honestly would think twice before I attended there right now. The short term does not look favorable. I honestly believe that Michigan is the most attractive school for your needs at this stage. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Moricarak, I chose Michigan over 4 (Brown, Columbia, Cornell and Penn) Ivy League schools for undergrad, and as an OOS student, attending Michigan would have cost almost as much as Brown. </p>
<p>I also attended Cornell for Graduate school and I can say, without a doubt, that I made the right choice when I chose Michigan over those 4 Ivies. You are from Michigan and are blinded by the Ivy League label. But the educated world is not going to be more impressed by an Ivy League than it is by Michigan, unless that Ivy happens to be Harvard, Princeton or Yale.</p>
<p>eoliver: random question, are you a distance runner or sprinter?</p>
<p>im a sprinter 400m dash on down</p>