Please help me finalize my college list!

gandalf78
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:26:04 +0000

2022jl:

I am planning on going to grad school for either law or public policy

This should eliminate some of your schools right away, such as NYU, Northeastern, and GWU (maybe Barnard and Swarthmore also), because you will need to save your money for graduate/law school, and I don’t think you are likely to get enough aid to make them financially worthwhile. Echoing the comments of @tsbna44, if you know that some sort of post-graduate education is a definite, then go to a less expensive school for your undergraduate education and work hard to get good grades and recommendations, and spend your money on a high-quality post-undergraduate education. That will have more of an effect on your job opportunities than where you got your undergraduate degree.