STUCK: Willamette or U Redlands?

conflicted4lifee
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:20:53 +0000

@BrownParent‌ Ah I see. While the reasoning may be because I received slightly more merit at Redlands, my parents (who are paying for my tuition and I thank my lucky stars) for some reason are biased against WU. They do not necessarily see WU as a much better school than UoR–but then again, maybe just because they want to save a tiny bit of money. I keep alternating between your perspective of best edu possible, and a perspective consisting more of “go-where-I-think-I-will-thrive-socially”.

I am definitely not keen on staying at such a small school (either WU or UoR) for 4 years–I know that after 2, I will become really tired of it all. NYU and USC were my dream schools this year but my high school is extremely competitive and I just couldn’t sustain the GPA I wanted/needed to get into them throughout high school, but I do think I will ultimately become more satisfied with both my quality of education and environments if and when I transfer.