<p>I’ve just recieved my college admissions decisions, and I have NO idea where I should go. Opinions?</p>
<p>USC (half-tuition scholarship)
UCLA (Regents scholarship)
UC Berkeley
Washington University in St. Louis
Johns Hopkins University</p>
<p>I want to study biology, and I’d love a school with sports and spirit. The again, I want to go to an academically-prestigious school… What do you think?</p>
<p>Net cost at each school?</p>
<p>Note that biology does not have good job and career prospects at the bachelor’s degree level, so taking on debt to study biology may not be a good move.</p>
<p>Leaving money out of it for the moment, if you are interested in biology, the list would be Hopkins, Wash U, Berkeley, UCLA, and USC, in that order.</p>
<p>Obviously, money does matter but you didn’t give enough information to give you intelligent advice. I wouldn’t go into heavy debt to go to any of those schools if I could go to one of them debt free.</p>
<p>I’d heavily consider that regents offer at UCLA. Isn’t that full tuition? Prestige at any school isn’t worth debt over 50k in my estimation (personal opinion, of course). More and more employers these days only care about where you got your graduate degree.</p>