Choosing Full Ride Vs. Selective College?

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<p>This is why @ucbalumnus’s suggesstion of NMTech is good. Not free-tuition, but cheaper than Mudd/CalTech and also small and tech-focused. Not nearly as selective of course, but they also send a relatively high percentage of kids on to get sciene&engineering PhD’s.</p>

<p>@LBowie:

  1. Not every kid looking at CalTech/Mudd is looking to get a science PhD.
  2. 200K is a chunk of money regardless. Not being in a job with tenure, that type of money may matter to my family’s future financial security.</p>

<p>BTW, if this was a kid interested in humanities/finance, I think I’d bite the bullet and pay for Stanford/Chicago over UA.</p>

<p>Career goals and the type of kid matters.</p>