| I was going to advise Wesleyan just because it would be such a different experience for you given the fact that you're in the Bay Area. It's a great school, and it's so much smaller than Cal that I think it's comparatively easier to make a lot of close friends. And the students there are amazing: intellectually alive and just as liberal as at Cal if not more. And that's a good thing. (Disclosure: I went to Cal, know a couple of kids at Weslayan.)
But you know, I really love the idea of taking some of the money you'd save by going to Cal and doing something exciting with it. Travel the world; take up underwater basketweaving; backpack through Yosemite -- whatever! You'll enhance your life, save a fortune and still get a world-class education in a world-class university.
Talk to your parents. See what they think about you doing a mini gap year. And congratulations on both your acceptances. |