Penn State worth 46K per year?

SavingsDwindling
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:54:25 +0000

I, too, am wondering this. Though my son received a Provost award, he has also been accepted to one of our state universities (SUNY Albany) in the honors program with a 4500 scholarship. As we don’t qualify for any financial aid, our net cost for Penn State is about $36-38K and for Albany about 15k. He is completely unsure of what he wants to do, though he was accepted into Smeal at PSU. He isn’t an avid “rah, rah” sports fan, though he is very involved in sports. I am trying to justify the additional expense and having a hard time…I’m pretty sure he will go to grad school and I don’t see where SUNY Albany and PSU would be viewed much differently by graduate schools. Any feedback would be most appreciated!