Money or Prestige

I_V
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:23:34 +0000

You all make good points. But, also consider this: you spend 4 years of your life (roughly 4.5% of your lifespan) in college, and taking option #2 would allow you to spend those 4 years anywhere you wanted. Always had dreams about living in NYC?.. take option 2 and you can go to Columbia. Also, given that many people’s top choices would be HYP, the financial aid would be huge. In addition, if you didn’t reach your full potential in high school and want to second chance at persuing your intellectual interests, option 2 wins again–especially if you choose somewhere with unbelievable research opportunities, say, Duke–which would in turn set you up perfectly for getting into the PhD program of your choice (or pretty close to that). Just throwing that out there… not all people go to college solely to position themselves for making money… some do it for the experience, and academic opportunity.