CU Boulder vs. UMass Amherst

3mamagirls
Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:02:28 +0000

Frankly, the only reason we visited Boulder is that I thought she should find a safety school that she actually liked. If she didn’t like her safety and she didn’t get in anywhere else, then she was out of luck. So we visited Boulder. And she loved it. She got deferred from two other schools, took one off her list after she applied, we are waiting for 2 more, and then UMass kind of came in as a surprise and almost an after-thought. So it sort of back-fired on us.

I was hoping for some sort of scholarship from CU - they do I believe $6250 per year for 4 years for the top 25% of OSS. It would have been a stretch, but she had good ACT scores, so we went for it. And we probably would have paid the $50k if we HAD to - we would have figured something out - but then she got this scholarship and UMass is already cheaper, so it was a game changer. Or at least created some more thinking - and stress.

I will be doing a lot of research for UMass as she has sort of shut down at the moment, and then hopefully the tour goes well. She is the one who picked it in the first place - I knew nothing about the school.