Columbia Egleston or Stanford Engineering?

ADUniPrepF16
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:51:43 +0000

Hey!
I am an international student from Asia.
I got accepted to 4 universities for the Fall 2016 (undergrad) session- Stanford, Columbia, Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
All these are great places to attend, but I had decided beforehand I would choose Stanford over everything else if I got accepted there.
However, what I did not expect was for Columbia to offer me admission to The Egleston Scholars Program. This is an opportunity given to only about 17-19 freshmen applying to the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The benefits include summer research stipends, career counseling, and priority access to Columbia’s best research facilities. I am really at a fix having to choose between the two.
Has anyone else had difficulty choosing between the Egleston and another university before? I know I cannot go wrong choosing either one, but I would just like to hear from anyone else who has had to make this decision before.
Which did you choose? And are you satisfied with your decision? What do you consider are the pros and cons of choosing one over the other?