Honors Colleges

badgolfer
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:38:46 +0000

It looks like this whole thread is ignoring the elephant in the room: money.

In a previous thread, you (the OP) mentioned parents are wealthy enough to disqualify need-based financial aid (even at Stanford), but the parents are only willing to contribute $12,500 (half the cost of in-state Wisconsin, putting it a few thousand dollars more than a reasonable expectation of student self-funding through loans and work earnings).

It is reasonable for the OP to explore options, but I think he’s still in the grips of magical/wishful thinking. Somehow he is going to uncover a public with an Honors college that he can afford with 12.5K/yr from his parents plus what he can contribute & borrow. Maybe such a beast exists, but the OP ought to spend time looking at what he can do at U of Wisconsin.