Ivy/Top 20 vs State Flagship Honors Program

Juvenis
Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:38:45 +0000

My bad. My top 20 schools are RD, so I don’t have any results, but before anyone says “wait until you have that choice,” I really don’t want to wait until April – a month before a decision must be made – to ask this question, so humor me for now. Anyways, I was specifically trying to compare UT Dallas Honors Program with Rice, Duke, Yale, and WUSTL, my reaches.

I’m thinking of a pre-med track, although I have an incredibly open mind.

As for preferences, I’d like a school to range from about 2000-8000 undergrads, or at least make my classes feel small. And like I said, it’d be nice to be around intellectually driven students for a good amount of time and around professors who care about undergrads a decent amount.

I’m just curious because whenever a typical CCer states his/her hopes of entering an ivy someday, many adults here claim that he/she can have a similar education and experience in a state flagship’s honors program for less. I just want to know if that’s true to a good extent because I’m not counting on being accepted to any of those reaches and hoping to get just as great an experience at UT Dallas.