Is Harvard worth 80k in debt?

My3Kiddos
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:31:09 +0000

Congratulations on all your great acceptances and awards!

If GT hasn’t given you the opportunity to talk to a current Stamps Scholar about what it’s like being a Stamps Scholar on campus, then I would suggest you ask them to put you in contact with someone. Don’t overlook that $12,000 fund and what you can do with it. It can help you fund undergraduate research, or pay for your housing if you get an unpaid internship over the summer. Basically, it can help you substantially with building your resume for med school admissions. If you go to Harvard, you will have to get paying jobs each summer in order to fund your education - and those may or may not be in a career-related field. That fund also comes in handy if you wish to study abroad.

Since you mentioned the international trip before starting school, I’m going to assume that’s with the other Stamps scholars. You will get the opportunity to make friendships with them before starting school, which eases the transition when starting college. You’ll walk onto campus on Day 1 knowing you have friends. And you’ll have time to do things with those friends, since none of you will have to have campus jobs.

You’ll also likely get on the invitation list for when different speakers come to campus, or emailed opportunities to apply for different scholarships/grants/programs, etc. As someone else mentioned, the university likes to see their Stamps scholars succeed, and they do help.

I know you said it’s a tough decision, and I understand that. Harvard is Harvard, but there are so many wonderful thigns that come with the Stamps Scholarship, that I can’t see turning it down.