Hi everyone,
With all my decisions out, I do need some advice trying to decide where to go. I’ve been accepted to Oregon State Honors College (3.5k-10k, I’m trying to bump it up from the 3.5k scholarship to the 10k one), Gonzaga (16.5k a year), University of Portland (20k a year) and Santa Clara (8.8k a year). I applied to and was rejected at Cornell, but a few days ago, I got an email asking me to apply as a transfer for the fall of 2016, which I would really like to do. I would like to study bioengineering and do pre-med, but since Gonzaga and UP don’t have it, it would be a combo of MechE and Biology. OSU/Up would be about an hour away from where I live, SC/Gonzaga is about 8 hours.
Given those factors, which of those four schools would be best for transferring to Cornell? I haven’t been able to visit Cornell, but would a great pre-med status be more achievable at these four instead of Cornell? Given my main goal is to attend medical school, would honors college look better than the three Catholic schools?
Thank you for your advice.
Can you look at your financial aid package from Santa Clara? They’re famously stingy with financial aid, so I’m surprised it’d only cost you 8.8K to go there. They may have hidden loans in the package (“stafford”, “perkins”, “parent plus” are all loans). If you truly got a financial aid package with only the subsidized/unsubsidized federal loans (totalling 5,500), then it’s an AMAZING offer from Santa Clara and that’s what I’d pick.
For ease of comparison, can you list the result of this problem for each university:
(tuition, fees, room, board) - (scholarships, grants) =$ ?
Premed: this is not a major, as you know, it’s a set of core courses. You need to take 2 semesters each of English, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Physics, plus 1 semester each of Psychology, Sociology, a diversity-focused-class, biochemistry, perhaps neuroscience, perhaps statistics… Then your gen eds (which are mostly covered above) and your major (which can be anything, from Spanish Literature to Philosophy to Economics to Media Studies!)
@MYOS1634 Thank you. I should have clarified that the values in the parentheses were how much each school is going to “give” me. As for pre-med, I know it isn’t major. With med school dependent on doing well in the pre-med aspect (GPA, MCAT, extracurriculars), would the four colleges I have been accepted to allow for a better standing, or would transferring to Cornell (and maybe taking a hit academically and in the rank of pre-med students) be worth it?
How much will each cost if you calculate (tuition fees room board) - (scholarship, grants)?
SCU is out of the picture if all they fave you is 8.8.
You should choose your college as if you weren’t to transfer, but do everything right in case you can.
What are Cornell’ s conditions, and what cost?
