HELP plz: dartmouth vs berkeley

gregariousloner
Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:24:49 +0000

i am an international and i am getting much better aid at berkeley than dartmouth… my parents say berkeley has better brand recognition, better weather and obv the better money factor… but i am very keen on dartmouth… its just that the finaid office is a little cold… i think i wanna study economics (and minor in computer sc.) n go into top consulting or banking jobs though one part of me really wants to study law too - just that it requires additional time/money… i think i am a person who really likes to constructively debate in and out of class with professors and fellow students and i think that berkeley might be too impersonal for me… i tried to request my parents to somehow think of dartmouth as an investment (a real deep-in-the pocket one though) and not as expenditure, but they are like - getting jobs for internationals is next to impossible, so better go with berkeley… but then my sixth sense says dartmouth although berkeley is definitely an amazing university… i am very very lost… plz help…n quick