Harvard vs Stanford vs Jefferson Scholarship at UVA

kaukauna
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:04:07 +0000

SomeDancinPanda: First of all congratulations on the acceptances. The Jefferson is a fabulous scholarship and you will have peers who all probably chose the Jefferson over Duke, Princeton, etc. You will always be able to have the Jefferson on your resume, and while you are at Virginia you will be on a pedestal with access to postgraduate advising and inside tracks to jobs / graduate programs… If you were my son/daughter after much thought I would say take the Jefferson with zero debt, bank some of the money saved for graduate / professional school, unless there was some area that you were definitely interested in that Stanford or Harvard was absolutely superlative at and which you are completely focused on (e.g. Stanford and CS). After graduating from Virginia you will be able to go to any professional school / graduate school in the World if you perform like I think you will. Good luck with the decision.