Texas A&M or Auburn?

MYOS1634
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:02:04 +0000

This discussion may be moot if you can’t afford to go. :s
^^ “average aid” does NOT apply to OOS students. Have you received financial award letters? Had you run the Net Price calculators before you applied?
If your parents can pay $20,000,then you would need to come up with at least $15 to 16,000 to afford either one. That would probably entail the $5,500 in federal loans to which you’re entitled plus, if you’re lucky, $2,500 in work study (otherwise, you’d have to find a job off campus at a fast food place, a supermarket, or such), plus $600 from a summer job, so you’d need to have $7-8,000 in savings on top of that. Do you have them?
If not, what are your other choices?
TAMU is very well regarded for engineering but it’s not that much better than Auburn for your majors (in fact Auburn may have an edge, not sure), so you should go either where you like best (if you can afford it) or whichever one is cheapest. Starting at a satellite campus means you’d avoid the acaemic competition on the main campus, but it may be a disadvantage for Greek life, football games, etc.