College Park Gemstone or NYU? Advice please.

umcp11
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:56:07 +0000

Hahaha…well…you will find students at MD who got into the crimson option but couldn’t afford it. Or something similar…my friend turned down a full ride to Columbia University for a full ride here because the Columbia Uni scholarship came with strings attached.

Or students like me who got into other Top 10 unis but had parents who didn’t “trust them” enough to send them out of state.

Another friend, in fact, turned down NYU because MD was cheaper…her parents had the EFC to send her to NYU (she also got a significant scholarship), but they just refused to pay for her education at all, so she is working 30 hrs a week at a high paying job just to make tuition at the state uni.

So, I would say you could be in a much worse situation. At least you don’t have to live with the annoyance of knowing you got in, but are forced to attend somewhere else for various other reasons :P.

Now you have two great options and there’s nothing to regret, no matter the choice you make, and the choice is in your hands :).