money vs. prestige?

melonbread91
Fri, 14 May 2010 21:26:30 +0000

I’m transferring, and my top 3 choices are cornell, columbia and penn (for bio/psych). the problem is that i will have to pay ~60K at penn and columbia peer year, but only about ~25K at cornell. i will be at one of these schools for 3 years, so is shelling out another 100K worth it for penn cas/columbia college? i’m not optimistic about my chances for getting my greencard in the next two years, so i will most likely have to pay out of pocket. my number one is columbia, but i plan on going to both grad school (20-25K) and med school (100-150K). any thoughts?