<p>no juanita is not talking about you. he/she is saying that can’t be vex’s situation as he says that he has full funding to all schools he has gotten into.
Where else are you looking at KLP if i may ask? If it is free I would take advantage of it. Tell your parents with the money they save they should spend 25,000 a year on a car for you… wishful thinking. you could get some nice stuff though with all the money you save. :D</p>
<p>Yeah, wishful thinking seems about right, lol.</p>
<p>Anyway, my other choices at the moment… Texas-Austin (good for CS), Michigan (deferred), Washington. Haven’t actually gotten into these yet, for one, and also they are expensive. Texas is the cheapest at $22,670, but still more expensive than Maryland at $8,075 (dorm price.)</p>
<p>For now, I confirmed enrollment at UMD. I’m probably going there. If for some reason I change my mind, then I guess I’ll go somewhere else.</p>
<p>So how do you go about confirming? Do you still have to provide $$$ with the tuition remission?</p>
<p>I’m a senior in Toronto and I can definitely vouch for McGill–most of my family has gone there, probably 25 or 30 of the 60 kids in my grad class will go there and I’m constantly there to party/see people etc. I think that it is such ana amazing undergrad experience and Montreal is such a fantastic city to go to school in. That being said, McGill’s undergrad education is not all that fantastic if you’re comparing it to a school like Chicago. I went to sit in on some 1st year lecture last week and there were prob more then 600 people there and there were people sitting in the aisles of the lecture hall b/c there weren’t enough seats. You will get a good enough education at McGill but it will hardly hold a straw to the academically enriched education you’d find at Chicago. So ya… with all that said, in terms of prestige I’d pick Chicago but for myself I would NO QUESTION pick McGill over Chicago because I think that the the university experience and the socializing etc is just as important as the working and at McGill you get a damn good mix. (also, in terms of academics, U of T is no question better then McGill on undergraduate level except maybe for its business and architecture programs)</p>
<p>I don’t know if you’re still considering what college to go to or if you will even read this, but from a personal standpoint I would tell you to go to McGill.</p>
<p>In terms of academic prestige, McGill and University of Chicago are both considered great. Sometimes I think people make too much of prestige because once you go to a school like McGill of University of Chicago all that matters is how you do there. </p>
<p>That being said, I have a brother who goes to McGill and he gets a very good education. Some things that people will not like about McGill is that the first year classes and be absolutely huge and that the second year classes can be very big, but as you make your way through your major the classes get much smaller. My brother is in his senior year at McGill and most of his classes are very small.</p>
<p>While I profess I don’t know nearly as much about Chicago, I stress that the difference between McGill and Chicago in terms of academic prestige means little and that you will probably have a much better social life at McGill. Chicago has a reputation for being a school full of work-a-holics who really don’t have much fun. McGill on the other hand has a reputation for being work hard and play hard.</p>
<p>McGill students are also treated more like adults than students at American univerisities. The drinking age in Canada is 18, not 21. In general, McGill students are very independent and they are treated as adults by both McGill and their fellow students.</p>
<p>Also, one thing I really like about McGill is a very friendly, down to earth student body. McGill also has a very international and interesting student body. You can’t put a fancy rating on such a thing, but it’s a huge plus about going to McGill.</p>
<p>Oh, and of course McGill is in a prime location in an awesome city. And just as a bonus it’s infiitely cheaper.</p>
<p>I think most people are saying University of Chicago because it’s more widely known in the United States, but for everything the two schools give you McGill would be my honest choice.</p>
<p>But of course, I am not you. Different people have different preferences. Only you can decide which school is right for you.</p>
<p>“So how do you go about confirming? Do you still have to provide $$$ with the tuition remission?”</p>
<p>No, confirming was free. :)</p>