What would you do?

Applying to College
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<p>Okay guys, I plan on majoring in Statistics and Economics to enter Business Finance in the future. However, I do not have many choices in college anymore because of disappointment rejections. Please help me:</p>

<p>I have choice of University of Connecticut, University of Michigan, Boston college and maybe UVA(waitlisted)</p>

<p>UMICH is giving me absolutely no money, so my loan will be humongous. Over $120,000. Boston college will be about $90,000 and Uconn will be about $60,000. Is it worth it to take the loan and go to UMICH. will job prospects be better according to you?</p>

<p>Also are internships better from UMICH then most other schools?</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.business.uconn.edu/users/fs%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.business.uconn.edu/users/fs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>what should I do with the link?</p>

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<p>BC is a great school. </p>

<p>Where do you WANT to go?</p>

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<p>Well I want to go to UMICH, but the loan is enormous, and it would help a lot if i could find average salary somehow of all three schools. By the way UMICH loan will be 150,000</p>

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<p>YUP!! (10char)</p>

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<p>I would go to BC.....Beautiful school and amazing connections.</p>

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<p>Okay. However doesn't BC have a lot of core requirements like art classes and stuff?</p>

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<p>who cares about art?....</p>

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<p>I dont. but I am just saying that boston college has a lot of core classes that everybody needs to take.</p>

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<p>Boston College is a great school.</p>

<p>UMich only gave me about $1k a year in grants with $10k in loans. I'm expected to pay $30k a year. I guess it's known for not giving too much in grants.</p>

<p>If you're really concerned about cost, UConn would be better. However, I'd choose BC.</p>

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<p>I would have applied to a school in my home state where it would have cost a fraction of all of those.</p>

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<p>I applied to University of Connecticut which will cost me 11,000 a year including room and board.</p>

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<p>If it's all about money, I wouldn't think your job prospects would be any better after Michigan than after BC. I'd think BC would look the best on a resume. </p>

<p>But since you don't sound too sure about BC, what about trying UConn for a year? If you hate it, you could try to transfer to Michigan. I'm not sure Michigan will get you a better job than UConn.</p>

<p>On the other hand, if you're in love with Michigan, and you'll spend the rest of your life wondering what a blast you'd have had there... </p>

<p>That's still a lot of money in loans though.</p>

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<p>Okay one more thing. I did not include my family EFC in the school. Family efc is 17000 per year. so subtract that. HOwever, my family says we cannot afford that.</p>

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<p>If you're going to stress about the money go to UConn. I don't think Michigan's reputation is worth $120k more than UConn. The only thing that would make me hesitate is if there is some other reason you want to go to Michigan -- if it's always been your dream to go there and be a Wolverine, and you'll always regret missing that, for example. But from your earlier postings it looks like your main concern is post-graduate salary vs loans, and I don't think the money makes Michigan worth it.</p>