Parent of a Brandeis student here. Congratulations on your acceptance! You should be very proud of your accomplishment! Our kid was an RD admit so could compare multiple offers and similar to OP was offered more merit at Clark which was also less expensive overall. We’re also parents who did not qualify on paper for aid (did get some merit at Brandeis) but are not wealthy so the tuition is very expensive for us. All that said, we made the family decision to send our student to Brandeis and we have not regretted it one bit because of the quality of the academics. Our kid is definitely heading to graduate studies and we have looked at the stats for admissions in the sciences to stellar grad programs coming from Brandeis and they are very good. Peers of our kid in high school were accepted to top schools. Current peers at Brandeis are high stats students. A seriously academic student would likely be happier at Brandeis than at Clark. It would matter, OP, what you are hoping to study – if you are a STEM student, you would really want to consider the investment in Brandeis as money well spent in preparation for a future career. If you are pre-med, certainly Brandeis is a better choice.
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