| I am. My safety, on both an academic and financial level, was the University of Connecticut, and I'm sending in the deposit there either today or tomorrow.
I was accepted to six of nine institutions. I got rejected at my top choice, Columbia, as well as UC Berkeley, and I got waitlisted at BC. I didn't accept the spot. My second-choice school, NYU, was simply not feasible financially- they "gapped" me by roughly $20,000, leaving my family to contribute about three times our EFC. I didn't think that either Marist College (my other safety) or UC San Diego was the right place for me, so that left UMiami, UConn and BU. I visited UMiami and it was a nice school, but I definitely got the "party school" vibe from that place, and overall it didn't seem worth going nearly 1,000 miles away from home for.
In the end, I had to decide between BU and UConn, and I liked the schools equally, but I could save about $4,000 a year by going to UConn- before you factor in scholarships I could get specific to UConn or Connecticut schools. Money's tight for our family right now, so going to my safety was really the responsible choice, and I'm happy with it. Go Huskies! |