<p>MIT hands down for engineering</p>
<p>Mathematcs at Princeton or MIT?</p>
<p>Harvard for engineering.</p>
<p>University of Iowa for creative writing, or Emory for creative writing?</p>
<p>Mathematics at Princeton; Emory for creative writing</p>
<p>Harvard for engineering or Princeton for engineering</p>
<p>Harvard.</p>
<p>Stanford for English, or Yale for English?</p>
<p>Yale because i think its better with humanities </p>
<p>Columbia/ UPenn</p>
<p>Columbia</p>
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<p>Doesn’t Stanford also have a top English program? (Edit: Yes, I checked and US News ranks both Stanford and Yale at #2 among English graduate programs.)</p>
<p>MIT for physics or Harvard for physics</p>
<p>Penn. (I had to make such decision and I decided that Columbia has too many backdoors)</p>
<p>Harvard for physics. (heck, I would still choose Harvard over MIT for engineering)</p>
<p>Rice vs Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>JHU</p>
<p>Silverturtle, if the question is which college would YOU rather attend given a choice between full tuition or a scholarship to another school without as much academic renown, it is a fair assumption to base your preference on your financial needs. Your confusion confuses me! Since I could manage with a full tuition, it would be in the realm of reason to go to the better school - for me; I did make it personal. And a two dollar scoop of ice cream is not $54,000/year (unless it’s really, really good Haagens-Dasz). :)</p>
<p>English/History at Duke or Brown?</p>
<p>Brown</p>
<p>Tinfoyl, I am not confused. 
I merely found it odd that you made the general statement that “that entirely depends on someone’s financial needs” when providing a personal explanation.</p>
<p>Caltech for engineering or MIT for engineering</p>
<p>Caltech, I’ve been in Massachusetts wayyy too long and I need out. </p>
<p>BearCub, what do you mean by backdoors?</p>
<p>NYU or BU</p>
<p>NYU</p>
<p>Another question for BearCub: Are you graduating from WashU and going to graduate school at UPenn, or are you transferring?</p>
<p>WashU or UPenn (non-Wharton)</p>
<p>I know it’s just me. But I’ve seen a lot of my not so smart friends gettin into Columbia’s less selective colleges. It made me lose the kinda pride that I had for getting acceptance to the school. Again, I’m just weird.</p>
<p>UPenn for grad school. Not transferring.</p>
<p>NYU</p>
<p>I would still choose WashU for undergrad vs non Wharton UPenn</p>
<p>McGills or Michigan</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to go to Montreal! Sure, McGill. Why not?</p>
<p>CompSci at CMU or Stanford?</p>
<p>Silverturtle, am I not included in the category of someone? It’s always been my dream to be SOMEBODY! (<em>cue music</em>) :p</p>
<p>I don’t think they differ much but for some reason (maybe because of Randy Pausch’s last lecture), I have a sympathy towards CMU.</p>
<p>Computer science at University of Illinois or Georgia Tech</p>
<p>Illinois - I have a friend who goes there for CompSci, and he loves the program (I guess it’s the trickle down effect)</p>
<p>Chemistry at Northwestern or Penn?</p>
<p>Northwestern.</p>
<p>Penn/Berkeley?</p>
<p>Penn definitely for an undergrad</p>
<p>PoliSci at Georgetown or Duke?</p>
<p>Duke.</p>
<p>Berkeley or Caltech</p>
<p>Berkeley</p>
<p>USC or NYU for film?</p>
<p>USC for the weather and the girls</p>
<p>Harvard Econ or Wharton?</p>