Balancing academics and location

juillet
Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:26:51 +0000

What makes you ‘very well aware’ that UF is “significantly better” than CU-Boulder, particularly for a specific major? Schools are generally not rated by their undergraduate majors outside of engineering and business. And I always say that graduate program rankings are not necessarily good indicators of undergraduate program quality - but CU-Boulder’s biochemistry program is top 15.

They’re both excellent universities, and you can get an excellent education at either, so I think you should go to the one you’d enjoy more, which sounds like CU-Boulder. (But also wait until you get your financial aid packages before you get too married to either, unless your family can afford to cover the full cost of attendance without blinking.)