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Great school with strengths in a wide array of fields like architecture, anthropology, classics, (tropical) medicine and public health, etc. New Orleans is awesome and probably the most distinctive city in the country. It’s not quite at the Emory/Vandy level, but it’s up there with Miami in the next rung. If financially feasible, I’d personally prefer it over any other school in this thread.</p>
<p>Tulane is usually pretty generous with merit aid, but I’m not sure that applies to transfer students.</p>
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Agreed, Ohio State is the strongest and most reputable. That said, OSU is distinctive among the three by being urban and unusually large even for a public university. If you want a smaller school or more of a college town, Iowa or Alabama is a better bet.</p>
<p>Alabama normally wins for an OOS student because it’s been taking the USC approach of buying students and thereby moving from a decent but unremarkable university to a good one, but my impression is that the money pool for transfer students is considerably smaller.</p>