I moved half to a conservative investment to be used first 2 years (still making almost 5%). Gonna leave the other half in the market for now.
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Okay, this post is seven years in the making. My kid just got an email offering them the full tuition Harvey Mudd Presidentâs Scholars Program renewable, four-year full-tuition scholarship.
This is a massive success story for our family, and a College Confidential win!
Coming only three weeks before having to make a decision, it is a relief of epic proportions, not gonna lie. This year has been a roller coaster, and it still isnât May 1st!
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What are the other options?
I assume one is an Ivy or elite - and to capture your name, this is âthe alternativeâ - last minute marketing to sway the decision!!
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My kid had an excellent EA round (100% acceptances), and a diametrically opposite RD round (20% acceptances, but Mudd was one and it only takes one).
Yes in-state: Mudd, full tuition merit; USC, tuition merit (not full); SDSU full tuition merit + Honors College.
Yes out of state: Colorado School of Mines (some merit); Georgia Tech (??? financial package); UMich (no merit/full COA); Virginia Tech (??? fp); UIUC (??? fp); RPI (good merit).
Rejected outright from UCLA, UCB, UCSD, Cal Poly SLO; waitlisted for UCI. Other RD waitlist/rejections as well.
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Unless Mudd is the wrong school environmentally, it seems a strong contender. But then you have SDSU on the opposite end. And SC somewhere in the middle.
Interesting.
Good luck - but Muddâs timing is to come in and swoop victory from SC or SDSU.
Good luck whatever he decides.
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S24 is deciding between Case Western and Emory. Pre-med, any wisdom you can share will be much appreciated. Thanks.
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Those are both very popular pre-med choices! Including because if pre-med doesnât work out (it usually does not), both will still be excellent for other paths.
Soâany cost difference? Preference for region/city?
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Congratulations @thealternative ! I went back and read some of your posts, and this is indeed years in the making! I recall that this program was a super high reach/dream - amazing!
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yes, if pre-med doesnât work out, maybe business or biostats. there is about $25,000 difference between the two (Case is the cheaper one). S24 has some concerns about Cleveland.
Congrats to you and yours! Thatâs truly phenomenal.
BTW, your kidâs full slate of results shows what a bizarro world we live in. Those across the board UC/CP rejections are crazy cakes in contrast to the acceptances elsewhere. I can assume they applied CS or the like, which doesnât help. But sheesh.
Anyway, congrats again! Mudd is a super special place!
We have a close family here at our BS whose daughter is now at CWRU and loves it. Sheâs pre-med. What are the nature of the concerns about Cleveland? And what sort of area are you from (i.e. city/suburb/rural)?
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Sitting here in Emory Admitted Students Day. Itâs fine, but they really need to pick faculty presenters on academics who will not make us imagine the incredible torture of taking their courses! 
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Cold vs. warmer. Big lake closer vs. further away. Little Italy vs. not little Italy. Coke shaped campus vs. well in my mind - an odd campus with weird art sculptures.
Does the student have varied interests academically? Everyone says Case is the place for that (i.e. multiple majors, etc.) done easier than elsewhere although perhaps thatâs Emory too.
Are costs different and meaningful to you over eight years - i.e. post graduate school too - does a save now make that less debt later?
Heads you win. Tails you win.
Itâs lovely when it works out that way.
Congrats to your student and best of luck. Hopefully no matter which they choose, itâll be wonderful - and thatâs very possible (that they canât make a bad decision).
Back to he has concerns with Cleveland - what are they? There will be more to do - closer - although Atlanta has a lot to do - but is more sprawl. Iâm going in June to Cleveland - excited to see the Rock Hall of Fame. Is his concern weather or something else - because for things to do nearby (Iâm talking closer), I would think Cleveland would win. But yes, itâll be colder and with the lake effect. $100K over four years is meaningful to some, but not others.
Not sure where you live - so are transport costs different (which could eat up some of the money) - or will the $100K meaningfully help the student later (in grad school) or for you, not meaningful.
Again, both fine choices. One should like where they are. Cleveland typically gets a bad rep but itâs a great city (to me).
Whatever your student chooses best of luck.
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When this happens we look up the Rate My Professor - just to see - how theyâd be.
Itâs funny - kids want to go to school to learn, to take neat classes, are all passionate.
Then they get on campus, they want to find the right profsâŠwhich often means the easy ones 
Hopefully at least the profs they put up are somewhat inspiring.
Have a great day.
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Weâre bracing for an onslaught of graduation parties. D24 is hosting one with her 2 best friends - just had to cull the invite list to 125 guestsâŠ
Co-hosting another large party with hundreds of attendees, food trucks, etc.
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As usual, particularly for pre-med kids, that sounds rather tempting. I note savvy pre-med kids from our HS often choose a good offer from CWRU over higher-ranked colleges.
Obviously this is just my two cents, but I think CWRU has an underrated location (underrated at least in many circles). Very nice local neighborhood, and then Cleveland has a lot to do, and there is also a lot of outdoor recreation as well, including over the border into PA. Obviously Emory/Atlanta are great too, but I just think people who are not terribly familiar with the Great Lakes region do not necessarily quite grasp how locations like this are actually quite good for having college-age fun.
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And in all fairness, the ethnobiology and anthropology profs were great.
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Thank you so much for the input!!! His concern with Cleveland is mainly because of the bad reputation. We are planning to revisit Case next Friday before he makes his final pick. We live in Philadelphia area. We told him that he did the right thing to consider money as a factor but money shouldnât be the defining factor.
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Thanks for the input!!!
How awesome! Harvey Mudd is an amazing school.
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S24 is at Emory today, too! And I was there, but I had to bail temporarily to run his brother to band rehearsal. Then we go back and try to find parking again. I whispered to S during the music/sound in Invisible Man talk that I was pretty sure sheâd lost a lot of the audience but it was pretty much custom made for him (possible music/English double major). His 11 year old brother was disappointed that we had to leave right before they started talking about monkeys. ETA: the 3 or 4 e-mails beforehand warning me about Atlanta traffic made me laugh. I KNOW! I live here! I did not laugh about how it started at 8 AM, though, presumably to keep people from actually attempting to drive between 8 and 9.
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