Hi, I’m a transfer student having a little dilemma. Which do you think is better? Paying 20,000 in total out of pocket for 2 years (includes summer terms) at a lower school for a major of your choice or full ride for 4 years at a highly selective uni for a different major? At both schools I would have to take out federal loans worth a max of $31,000.
At the lower school I would be majoring in accounting and at the highly selective school I was thinking of doing computer science
Easy choice. Go to the full ride with the highly selective university.
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Pretty different careers.
A lot would depend on which subject/career you prefer.
But if indifferent (though I don’t see how anyone can be), I’d say the full-ride studying CS at the more selective school.
Can you talk about why you like accounting vs. CS?
also, are you certain about your ability to do CS at the highly selective school- are there any secondary requirements?
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Oh right, how much exposure have you had to either field?
They require different types of intelligence, I would say.
CS programs are notoriously difficult to get into.
Full ride for CS at the highly selective university. 
I don’t get why you need a loan at the full ride?
Normally I’d say full ride but not if you want to be an accountant. If you want to be an accountant (which is very employable) you need to go to school for that.
So follow your desire.
You really need to decide what you want to major in before doing something like this. If you find out you don’t like CS, you’d be in a much worse position than where you started.
First things first. NEVER EVER let a school tell you what to major in. You’re the one who is going to spend the next 40+ years in this career. If they won’t give you your chosen major, it’s not worth going there, no matter how prestigious it may be. There are few thing in this world worse than choosing the wrong profession and finding out later you’re extremely miserable.
If you want to explore CS, it’s a lot better to do it at the school you’re already at, then simply change your major. If you don’t like it, you can switch back to accounting.
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I took CS in highschool.
And I can’t stay at my current university since my fam is moving.
Anyway, I already figured it out where I’m going. Thanks for everyones input.
Since we spent some time trying to help, it’d be nice if you told us what you decided and why 
(the ‘and why’ is especially important for future students reading this).
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Decided to go with the low-ranked school to do 3 years instead of 2 years at the low-ranked school that brought my cost down, only costs about $3000 a semester, so $6000 a school year. While the low-ranked school is lower ranked, the accounting program there is accrediated by the main business organization plus with a specific global accreditation specifically for the accounting program and there was no organization accreditation for the CS program. The accounting program is also more closer towards my goals, plus I receive a BBA degree which is a bonus since I know many business careers require a BBA in general. CS is a decent field, however I don’t think it would teach me what I need to know for the business world. I could also learn how to program additional languages from my friend or youtube or something. If I decide to pursue a different career in the future, I could get my masters in something else.
While CS programs don’t need to be accredited (most aren’t), it’s indeed very important for Accounting, which in addition will require an extra year (150 hours post BS).
BS v. BA v. BBA, it really depends on the university.
CS is very different from business, very math-based, not just languages, but if you already know some programming you can certainly add that to your resume even as an accountant.
Congratulations on your choice and thank you for letting us know.
be nice to know what the two schools were for perspective.