So I love Dartmouth . . .

Poseidenj
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:56:38 +0000

If you live in California, you have little reason not to go to UCB or UCLA. Unless you are interested in a LAC-experience (which Dartmouth would fall under) there isn’t too much reason to care about where you go for undergraduate education.

I’d like to commend you admirably for caring about your parents financial situation, even if you do seem rather well off. Not many kids, ESPECIALLY going to elite schools/on CC =p can say this.

But once again, the UC system is the best public school system in the US. UCB is a top 20, UCLA is a top 25, and UCI/UCSD are top 50. My advice would be to look into all the UCs and learn to like one of them, alot. Without financial aid, the burden you’d put on your family would be alot. And if you live in California this means you can see them more often, and go to the beach! And for grad school go all out!

My parents won’t pay any cost beyond a state school (so they would pay the cost of UW Seattle toward Dartmouth, and I’d have to finance the rest), and I have to pay for grad school. Hopefully financial aid solves that…