Rice full tuition vs. Stanfrod/MIT/GaTech?

SimpleLife
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:29:35 +0000

If Standford is your very top choice, you might consider contacting them with your Rice U offer in hand to see if they’re open to further discussion. This has to be done very diplomatically. There are other forums on CC where you can read about how to do this.

You didn’t mention if MIT’s $42k was at your cost. If so, and IT’s your very top choice, you could take your Rice U offer to them and delicately, diplomatically see what they might do. I would only do this if one of these two schools is your very top choice, by a wide margin.

Otherwise, if no huge sums of money are forthcoming from them, or if they’re not really top choices by a wide margin compared to Rice or GaTech, I would just toss them off your list and head for Rice or GaTech! It’s really a no-brainer. You have full scholarships to 2 excellent schools. You can’t lose at either one! You can save your money for grad school or future living expenses.

In my opinion, there is absolutely no reason to pay big money for Stanford or MIT when two other top colleges will educate you for nothing. Keep Stanford or MIT in your hip pocket, with all your undergrad savings, and head THERE for grad school!