UCB versus Tufts etc.

mikemac
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:36:35 +0000

IMHO the UC schools are not worth the OOS tuition. She could have got the same large classes, lack of attention, and the like for much less money in your home state. Econ and psych in particular are among the most popular majors at UC schools and so the classes tend to remain large all 4 years (as in 180 students upper division Econ, for example)

She is wait listed in Williams and Amherst. Would you recommend that she hold on to these colleges rather than accept one of the universities and be done with the process?

Perhaps I’m parsing incorrectly what you said, but it seems you misunderstand the process. Being on a waitlist is not a guarantee of eventual admission. If she does not accept a place at one of the colleges that has offered her admission she stands a very strong chance of not having a college to attend in the fall.

She needs to accept a place at a college that has offered admission. No rather about it. Then she faces a choice. She can decline positions on the waitlists and be done. Or she can agree to be placed on the waitlist. In which case she may find out sometime this summer they have room for her, which would bring up another decision; forfeit the deposit at the place she already accepted and enroll off the waitlist, or decline the offer.