<p>Acceptances:
Rice w/ 20,000/year
WashU
Vanderbilt
NYU Stern
Lehigh
George Washington
Boston University
American</p>
<p>Waitlists:
Yale</p>
<p>Deciding between: Rice, WashU
Leaning towards: changes every hour :)</p>
<p>Any advice would be appreciated! I want to go into political science, business, or international relations.</p>
<p>Acceptances:
Ohio State (in state tuition)
U Arizona
Tulane (24 k/yr merit)
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Swarthmore
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
Scripps
Washington and Lee</p>
<p>Rejections:
UVA
UNC
Duke
Northwestern
Brown</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Rice</p>
<p>Deciding between: Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Pomona</p>
<p>Leaning towards: Money is an issue and I received no financial aid. I’m concerned about the social life at Vanderbilt, but I feel like there’s no name recognition with Pomona. I hope to major in Spanish and maybe minor in business, and Tulane is the only one with a business school. I also want a high GPA to help get into grad school. Any thoughts or suggestions?! I would really appreciate it!</p>
<p>I am so grateful for this thread…</p>
<p>Acceptances:
Emory University
Fordham University ($10,000 Dean’s, Honors)
Mount Holyoke College ($20,000 Leadership)
Northwestern University
Oglethorpe University ($15,000 Presidential, Honors)
Smith College
Tulane University ($24,000 Presidential, Honors)
U of Georgia ($1,000 Charter, Honors)
Vanderbilt University
Wellesley College</p>
<p>Rejections:
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Amherst College</p>
<p>Deciding between: Northwestern, Wellesley, Emory, Vanderbilt
Leaning towards: Northwestern. I was accepted into their Medill School of Journalism, and I want to study journalism. I plan to be a documentarian.</p>
<p>Trouble? I can see the merits in all four choices, plus five of the other six offered me some significant merit money. I’m from Atlanta, and I love my hometown, but part of me is reluctant to be so close to home. I’m thoroughly confused as to where I should go. Any helpful hints? I want a big city and a school with prestige and tradition…</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Lili518, Pomona is a wonderful school, and it’s incredibly prestigious for the academic people who matter. Tulane is also a great school. I take it you got Presidential-- me too! I also worry about Vanderbilt and its focus on GReek life, as well as rumors as to its perceived pretension.</p>
<p>All good choices, though.</p>
<p>Northwestern FTW…No question IMO…Why? Medill, prestige and tradition</p>
<p>Choice #2: Any of the merit schools that have a strong journalism program…</p>
<p>IN resident majoring in biochemistry</p>
<p>Acceptances: Purdue - West Lafayette
U of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ohio State (The) - Columbus
Indiana University - Bloomington</p>
<p>Rejections: Harvard
Princeton
MIT
Brown</p>
<p>Waitlist: Northwestern</p>
<p>Leaning towards Purdue or U of M. Accepted to honors program in all 4 schools. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Accepted:
Smith College
College of the Holy Cross
Fordham University (8k scholarship)
Willamette University (15k scholarship)
University of British Columbia
San Diego State (honors program)
Marquette University</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Boston College
Occidental (but I’m taking myself off of it)</p>
<p>I was accepted to more, but I’ve narrowed it down to these 7. I want to be a journalist/writer, if that helps for suggestions. Right now I’m leaning toward Smith, UBC, or Holy Cross, but I’m a mess right now. HELP!</p>
<p>Acceptances: Binghamton
Penn State
U Delaware
Northeastern
Virginia Tech
URI</p>
<p>Rejections: Villanova</p>
<p>Waitlisted: RPI</p>
<p>Deciding between: Penn State, Binghamton
Leaning towards: Binghamton</p>
<p>Engineering major. No merit scholarships that I know of yet. Binghamton would be in-state tuition (no loans!) but I think Penn State is a bigger name in engineering but I probably will not end up being an engineer - I just want to have the background. I’m planning on grad school prob MBA or maybe law school.</p>
<p>Acceptances:
Duke
Purdue
Rice
WUSTL</p>
<p>Rejections:
Stanford</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Tufts-- haha I didn’t send the supplement, application fee, or sat scores lol</p>
<p>Deciding between: Duke and Rice
Leaning towards: Rice</p>
<p>mechanical engineering major. half tuition at rice, and it’s higher ranked in engineering, but is there something about duke i should really know? or something bad about rice?</p>
<p>I’m trying to decide between Wellesley and Sarah Lawrence. They will both cost about the same for me and both have their ups and downs. I cannot seem to settle on one or the other. I want to be an English major and both have really great programs. I don’t know what to do.</p>
<p>@gettingthere31, I’d suggest Sarah Lawrence, which is REALLY known for its writing program. Wellesley is good, but when I think of English being a specialty, I always think of Sarah Lawrence. Plus, Wellesley, being a woman’s college, always makes me think there will be tons of drama (and lesbians in hiking boots, but that’s just me.)</p>
<p>oogie girl, penn state and VTech are on a whole nother level of engineering than binghamton. If you want to do engineering, you should consider them both</p>
<p>chicagoboy12 - be careful if you have a scholarship at Cornell you may endanger it by switching from engineering to another dept.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice atrophicwhisper. I really need all the advice I can get right now.</p>
<p>Alright I have it down to 3 schools. </p>
<p>Baylor University—pretty bad fin. aid but I may be able to work it out.
Lawrence University—Pretty good offer, covers 37,000/40,000
Denison University---- Best offer, though not final, covers 45,000/45,000</p>
<p>I want to major in Classics/Biology (maybe international relations, but probably not).</p>
<p>I was also thinking about applying to more schools…ugh..idk…so LOST right now.</p>
<p>Acceptances:
Duke
USC (18k presidential scholarship)
UCLA (honors)
UCSD (Regents)
Berkeley
Johns Hopkins
BU (10k scholarship)
Cornell</p>
<p>Waitlist:
Columbia
Northwestern</p>
<p>Deciding between: Duke and USC
Leaning towards: don’t know!! switches back and forth</p>
<p>Bio/psych major-premed. Is a Duke education worth nearly twice as much as a USC education? I’m aiming to get into a good med school, so at USC, I’d probably have an easier time getting a high GPA as opposed to Duke. But from what I’ve heard about Duke so far, it seems too good of an opportunity to give up.</p>
<p>“Is a Duke education worth nearly twice as much as a USC education?”</p>
<p>No, not if you are planning on med school…What are you passing up at Duke that you can’t buy with $18,000 at USC?</p>
<p>Acceptances:
Pitt
Fordham
Duquesne(honors)
Marquette(honors)
Case Western</p>
<p>Rejections:
Penn
Swarthmore
Bard
William and Mary</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Denison(didn’t accept)
Tulane(accepted)</p>
<p>I really want to go to Tulane, and if I get off the list I will. I am staying in communication with Tulanes addmissions/counselor, they do not want supplementary material/additional recs, wrote a letter and emailed updated info. I graduaeted early so no academic updates. If anyone has input on how people got off the waitlist in the past, I would be very grateful. </p>
<p>Deciding between Case, Marquette and Fordham. I have some “special circumstances” and have to get my FA re-evaluated, so I have to wait for their final aid offers.
I want to major in poli science and pre law, minor in journalism, I am from PA.
Advice?</p>
<p>Does anyone have anymore advice concerning my situation (Sarah Lawrence vs. New College of Florida)? It’s back on page 5. I could really use it. Thanks.</p>
<p>I have been admitted to my state school, Rutgers New Brunswick. I have also been admitted to the University of San Francisco. I want to study Media Broadcasting but I am having trouble deciding where to enroll. </p>
<p>Rutgers has given me practically no financial aid, just work study and loans. USF has given me a pretty generous package. At this point, USF is the cheaper school for me. However, it is very far away from home and I have never visited the school. I have visited Rutgers though, and I loved it.
Should I go to Rutgers for about $2000 more a year or go to USF, a lower ranked school that I haven’t seen? Which is a better descision?</p>