Carleton vs Grinnell vs Pitzer Help (intended Biology major, Pre-med)

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6. If the annual cost difference were $20,000, would that change your decision?

Yes.

But I recognize that this depends on your family’s finances and values, as well as how much you value the differences between the two colleges.

This may help inform your decision:

How does prestige matter for kids who want to go into business?

Papers in the 1980s and 1990s routinely showed that graduates of highly selective schools earned 3% to 7% higher wages for every 100-point increase in their school’s average SAT score… However, critics suspected these earlier studies suffered from severe selection bias: highly selective colleges admit students who are already unusually talented, ambitious, and well-connected…. Dale and Krueger solved this selection problem with a clever strategy: they compared students who received the exact same set of college acceptances and rejections, but chose to attend different institutions…. Their core finding was that student quality matters much more than school quality: students with high academic capabilities and strong drive earned roughly the same later in life, regardless of whether they went to an Ivy League university or a less-selective public state school. References Black, D. A., & Smith, J. A. (2004). How robust is the evidence on the effects of college quality? Evidence from m…

I think you’ll do great no matter which one you go to!