Is a top school worth it?

KLLeader
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:03:30 +0000

Well, I have a few offers from small southern LACs for full tuition scholarships. And I am still waiting for decisions for some of my top schools. I think I would rather pay the 15k for UNC than taking the scholarships at any of the schools which I’ve been offered so far. Its basically unlikely for me to get any merit aid at UNC and more than likely no need based aid but I can do 15 no problema.



You know there are other ibanking and consulting jobs besides G&S and McKinsey and they do hire grads outside of the Ivie or Ivie type schools.



Thats a pretty good point.



If you’re a little ambivalent about the job or the quality of job you want out of school, then you should absolutely do everything you can to minimize debt and maximize the quality of education



Not the case here. I’m pretty sure that i’m leaning towards consulting, but I think I would prefer a smaller firm like the Parthenon group over something like Mckinsey. And I kind of want to move up north. Then again, four years from now things may have changed and my college experience may give me insight as to what I really want to do. But Consulting does sound pretty exciting to me