Tulane Honors or UCLA? Please give advice!

CollegeChica12
Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:55:57 +0000

fallenchemist: As always, your input is greatly appreciated. Your bring up many valid points, most of which I’ve already considered, which is exactly what makes this decision such a conflicted one. I suppose I’ll have to wait for Tulane to come back with the rest of the financial aid, and, if both schools are similarly affordable, I will have to somehow convince my parents into letting me visit (I’m even offering to cover much of the fees myself.) My family once planned to move across the country for several years without having visited our new home first. We ended up staying for less than a year before returning to our former home. I’m just very afraid of that happening again. After all, if I don’t like a college, I suppose I could transfer after two years, but still, that’s two years of my life that I won’t get back again, and will have to pay for at that.

BTW, I’m from Oregon, if that makes any difference. Travel to and from L.A. would be a lot cheaper, but I actually think my mom is leaning more toward my going to Tulane and living in New Orleans at this point (after all, NOLA is much more comparable in size to our “metropolis”, Portland, than to L.A.)

idad: as an avid NPR listener, I heard that statistic as well (I was just discussing it with my mother last night, in fact!) and found it extremely alarming. That said, journalism is one of the few things I can see myself doing for a living and being passionate about, which is why I want to make sure I get the best education possible in it, though I would like to double major/minor in some combination of political or environmental science and Spanish, as a sort of “fall back.” I feel that this would be the best use of my time and money.