Help me choose between these schools please!

CandyFloss
Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:16:55 +0000

Wow! Thanks for all your thoughtful responses!
To all the people who enlightened me about the actual cost of Berkeley OOS - thanks! I’d only checked on the website and other indirect sources, so I guess I really underestimated it. (I live in Texas, and even for OOS people, UT Austin would be a lot less expensive than UC Berkeley). I guess Cal isn’t really a viable option after all …
@whenhen, Did she really? So what sort of degrees/career trajectories would you recommend for someone interested in a career in academia? I guess I just assumed a PhD would be the natural track, but if that’s not correct, I’m definitely open to other options.
@gravitas2 and @InigoMontoya, Thanks you guys! So you’re both essentially saying to go wherever the scholarship is the largest, right? Basically, Emory vs. Rice? If I do get a full ride at Emory (fingers crossed!) would you recommend it as a school over Rice? I wasn’t aware that the undergraduate school didn’t even matter as far as becoming a professor went.
@205mom, That’s so awesome! Congrats on your success! I definitely will sit down and discuss it with my parents, thanks
@merc81, Wow!! I hadn’t seen that article, even though I’ve been researching Emory for so long! That definitely makes me less nervous about the school … thanks so much!