<p>I’d love to visit Cornell but I’m not sure when I’d be able to. Money is definitely a consideration. I can still apply for scholarships but I’m from a middle class family and didn’t receive any grants from these schools. For tuition alone, not including housing or anything, Cal and UCLA are about 14k, USC 23k, and Cornell 47k. I think that’s one of the reasons USC is kind of iffy for me because it’s not really any better in prestige or engineering but it costs a lot. The price and distance of Cornell are definitely biasing me towards Berkeley. I picture myself here rather than the east coast after graduation but there’s no way for me to know I won’t love it over there. People here have been siding with Berkeley but that’s probably because they don’t know much about Cornell so I’d definitely love to hear from those on the side of Cornell as well so I can get an opposing view. </p>