<p>Also, at least to look on the bright side, at least you are guaranteed housing in an on-campus dorm that is one of the most attractive, at least in terms of facilities given that it is the most modern building after the newly opened Ridgewood dorm.
In addition, one often overlooked cost of studying abroad with merit aid or other aid is in fact the cost of the study abroad programs themselves, when attempting somehow through bureaucracy to enroll directly in, for example, a European university is usually far cheaper because tuition there can often be as low as 500 euros per semester or lower (some students in Germany protest that this is to high, because it used to be nonexistent).</p>