Okay, so i got accepted into Cal Poly Engineering and Texas Christian University as a business major. My career preference is to be in the business and management side of some sort of tech, science, engineering, math, etc. company/firm. I have to decide which college to go to today and would appreciate some insight on what will benefit me more in the future with the career path I want. Keep in mind that I do plan on getting an MBA definitely somewhere back east because I want to live in the south/east when I am older (texas). I just want to chose the college that will benefit me more in the future. Thank you for all your help!
If you want to stay in Texas, go to Texas Christian University. Being local will help with internships and job opportunities.
Why do you have to decide today? I thought students had until May to make a decision unless they applied ED. Is there a big difference between the net costs?
Yes, i applied ED to Cal Poly. The net cost without any financial aid is $25,000 for Cal Poly, and $50,000 for Texas Christian University.
If you applied ED you have to go to Cal Poly unless there is a financial issue, which clearly there isn’t if you can afford TCU which is twice as much.
But at Cal Poly I still have the option to accept or decline their offer. I definitely cant afford TCU straight up I just dont know whether i will get an academic scholarship, how much financial aid will be offered to me, or whether or not i want to have $200,000 in student loans when i get out…
You only have the option to accept or decline their offer “only for compelling medical or financial reasons.” I’m sure the ED agreement you signed said the same thing.
There is no ED agreement signature needed for SLO but I did not know that you were accepted ED when I posted my answer. SLO states that you must accept unless you have the compelling reasons outlined in the above post^^^^. Seems financially SLO makes better sense but also it is a matter of integrity. Why apply ED if you wanted to consider other options? Ethically you need to accept.
Since you applied ED to Cal Poly, you agreed to attend, unless there are compelling medical or financial reasons.
http://admissions.calpoly.edu/applicants/freshman/deadlines.html
When you apply ED, you are agreeing to go there, if accepted, barring any financial issues. If you wanted to wait and compare all other offers, then you should have applied RD.
So what happens if I decline?
If your word is worth nothing, and you don’t care about fulfilling agreements you entered into, and you don’t want people to trust you, by all means, renege on your agreement with Cal Poly SLO.
If, on the other hand, you are a person of integrity, you will of course fulfill the commitment you made when you applied ED to Cal Poly SLO.
@dsb444 You’re absolutely in the wrong for posting a thread like this.
You’ve been accepted ED to Cal Poly. There’s no decision to be made. You made the decision to attend Cal Poly if they accepted you when you submitted the ED app.
There’s a thread going on now about how kids don’t take ED agreements as seriously as they should. You’re the perfect example of that.
If you wanted (or needed) to compare FA packages, then the right thing to do is to apply RD.
Remember about karma. You decline Cal Poly, then what will you do if/when you get 0 FA from TCU? Now you’re stuck with a $50k bill at TCU. Don’t roll the dice.
yes, I initially wanted to go to Cal Poly, which is why I applied ED, but then I had a change of heart, and now feel that it might not be the school for me…is it wrong to have changed my mind and go where I feel is right for me? I don’t want colleges to look down on me and think that I am not a person of my word, I just want to go where I feel is right for me and what is going to benefit me more in the future.
It’s wrong to back out of a commitment.
You’re young and probably should have thought out more that ED app when you signed it in the fall.
It’s not wrong to change your mind. You may change majors at whichever school you eventually attend. You may even transfer from whatever school you attend. Things change all the time. It’s definitely ok to have a change of heart.
The school won’t take you to court for backing out. If/when you decline, then give them the reason and hopefully they’ll be gracious about it.
They may not take too kindly to your school and GC for the next couple years. They should eventually forget about it though unless they have some database to track schools where students back out of ED apps for other than medical or financial reasons. Don’t know if they do that though.
You’re an adult now, dsb444. Adults live up to their commitments, even when they change their minds. You don’t get to take the benefit of the deal-- an early acceptance-- and then refuse to live up to your part of the deal. That’s not the way the adult world works.
Do you want to accept TCU or Cal Poly or some other school, only to have them change their minds? “We had a change of heart. We thought we wanted dsb444, but now we’ve decided they are not the student for us. Is it wrong to have changed our minds and rejected the students we at first accepted? We don’t want students to look down on us and think we don’t keep our commitments. We just want the student body we think is right for us.”
It doesn’t work like that. People make agreements, and then they keep them. If you didn’t want to commit to going to Cal Poly, then you should not have committed to going to Cal Poly. But you did. Now do it.
THAT was the risk you took when you decided to apply ED. Time to put on your big-boy pants and act accordingly.
@dsb444, there is no decision to be made. You need to stand by your original commitment. Did you not understand what ED was? From their website, the ED “option is offered to those first-time freshman applicants for whom Cal Poly is clearly their first choice…Early Decision candidates must be committed to attend Cal Poly. Students admitted under this plan and who accept the terms of admission may be released only for compelling medical or financial reasons”. You’ve had a “change of heart”? Well, that’s the risk of applying ED. You shouldn’t have applied that way unless you were 100% sure it was your top choice. But you did, so the right thing is to stand by your end of the bargain.
Yes, you are locked into Cal Poly. You do not have a legitimate reason to decline.
then i guess i have no decision