I would prefer the typical college experience, which in my mind includes dorming with other students and having an actual college campus. Above all, however, I value the opportunities the university will provide for me, which would include access to internships and job opportunities after I graduate.
I haven’t ran the NPC yet but I don’t think there will be much of a cost constraint if I get into one of my top choices. I also do have Bing, IU Kelley, and Baruch as my safeties and am considering including Fordham as well.
Becoming a quant would be a possibility but I haven’t taken any CS classes. I feel like it’s too late in my career to enter the CS field especially when I see my peers’ achievements and level of work in CS, but I could be wrong.
I would love to ED to Cornell but at the same time their business program has such an astronomically low acceptance rate to the point where I’ve been considering ED’ing somewhere else to increase my chances at a spot in a strong business program. It seems to me that it might not be worth taking the risk and ED’ing to Cornell if I don’t even have a chance at getting in.