<p>I received 17,000 in merit from Wheaton along with a bit of FASFA so it would be around 20,000 total, and then I received around 20,000 from Bard w/merit/financial aid making it 40,000 total. </p>
<p>(And just to clarify this is Wheaton MA)</p>
<p>And thankyou Barrington for your input, I completely understand what you mean about going to the cheaper college/the academic reputation not being as significant as I may be considering it to be, it’s just difficult to go to a college with a relatively high acceptance rate after killing myself in highschool to get into a “good college.” But in contrast to the enormous debt that I would inherit from Bard it would obviously be more practical to go to Wheaton</p>
<p>Also, Turntabler, will you expand upon that? Personally I am not all that artsy, I am quite nerdy in the academic sense, although I’m not really a part of the media/social subculture that exists in a place like Bard. (Although I would like to consider myself open-minded in the sense that I am very liberal and also an atheist) I do not however embrace the drug culture</p>