Hi everyone, I’m currently trying to decide on which university to go to next year. The main choices I’m looking at now are Northeastern University in Boston, Washington University St. Louis, University of Rochester, and Case Western Reserve University. While I got no aid of any sort from WUSTL, I got 20k merit at UR, 32k merit at CWRU, and full tuition at NEU. I also got into the GEAR program at UR (an automatic entrance to grad school with some other networking perks) and the University Scholars Program at Northeastern which provided the full tuition scholarship a well as would give me a huge amount of benefits, such as specialized advising and better shots at internships and co-ops. So I’m not sure what exactly I’ll end up doing, but most likely it’ll be engineering and business. During the application process I sort of expected to get into more high end schools (perfect ACT, 12 AP tests with all 5s, 4.7 GPA, National Merit Finalist, etc.), so I haven’t really given these universities much thought until now. I did visit NEU at a scholars weekend, and really liked the feel of it, and I’ll be visiting WUSTL next week. For the moment, I’m curious what all your opinions are on this.
Congrats on your acceptances. 
It all comes down to two things - which schools FIT you? Which ones will make you the happiest? Visiting WashU is smart thing to do. You need to find out if you’d be happy there. And then financially which one can your family afford. Its a very personal decision.
With my kids they both luckily found their #1 choice and they are both blissfully happy with their choice. They say happy students are successful students!
Good luck and let us know what you thought of WashU.