Rice full tuition vs. Stanfrod/MIT/GaTech?

silentsailor
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:30:45 +0000

I got the same scholarship last year, plus another $4k/year to room and board. Other options included MIT at $14k/year and Columbia at $12k/year, both of which were really kind of unaffordable for me, though aside from that my rationale was that MIT was cold and I could keep my car if I went to Rice (I’ve since heard more negative student life things about MIT: all the stores around close early so there aren’t any good late-night restaurants, everything cool is around Harvard so transportation is more difficult, etc). As *****y as this may seem, I also figured that Rice would be a relatively easier school to distinguish myself in. All of those figures add up to a LOT of money, and if you plan on going to grad school you need to take that into consideration…but if MIT or Stanford is your is your “dream school” and your parents can afford it, you’re not going to get this chance again.

I dunno, Stanford rejected me and I might’ve gone there, but it’s a bigger school. I don’t really consider GAtech on the same scale now that you’ve got a full ride to Rice.