Help!!!! Which university should I choose

CaliDad2020
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:50:42 +0000

@clan123

Ok. You (or your parents) are about to spend 150k or so in 2 years. So, if I were you I’d do a bit of due diligence.

Both schools have similar level students, similar “rankings,” similar admit stats, and similar quality reps.

At this point, as a transfer student, you should have some sense of what you might want to pursue. And if the obvious and big differences between Atlanta and LA aren’t clear-cut enough to tell you where you want to be, the differences in the programs might.

“Emory” or “USC” are huge institutions. The different programs and schools have different strengths and weaknesses that should matter to a transfer student.

What are you studing?
Are you looking at a specific college/school inside the University?
Are you interested in grad school?
A progressive masters?
Have you checked to see what kind of requirements you will need to hit to graduate (USC has GEs for instance, Emory has GERs. How many transfer credits (if any) will fullfill these required courses?)
Where do you want to end up after college? (If in the West, esp CA, USC is an obvious choice, if south east or even east coast in general, Emory becomes more attractive.)

Both are excellent schools doing serious, significant academic work in a large number of areas. I would really do a deep dive on the programs you want to study, what classes you need to take in the next 2 - 3 years etc. That should tell you a lot. Who cares about the quality of a school’s Cinema Arts or Material Sciences courses if you’ll never take a single media class or engineering class in your time there?

What are you going to take? Who teaches it? Are you excited to study with them?