@harvardandberkeley UCLA will be $58,000 per year, UMich will be $55,000 a year and UGA will be about $13,000 per year. Yes, it is because I am receiving the Hope Scholarship. I understand that this is quite a price differential, but I am determined to attend college out of state and my family is perfectly willing and capable of handling the costs. In other words, I am not going to UGA. My choice is between UCLA and UMich.
@nnocnat2 I personally agree with @harvardandberkeley , and think you should seriously consider UGA. I’m also OOS, and I was accepted into both UCLA and UMich, so I’m going to have to draw a parallel here between my situation and yours. I want to do business (I’m still considering an MBA) , and I was accepted into UCLA for econ and pre-admitted into Ross at Michigan. Both schools offered decent aid, but I chose Michigan in part because they offered more money (which is ironic considering how stingy they are known to be for OOS kids). However, the key factor for me was Ross. After talking to a teacher who was a former analyst for 19 years, he explained to me that the school honestly doesn’t matter - especially for nationally well known schools like UCLA and Michigan (in my case I was asking about Northwestern V Michigan Ross, but same thing basically) - because for pursuing a graduate degree, colleges mainly focus on how you do in your undergraduate school. In my case, a majority of kids who go through Ross don’t feel the need to pursue an MBA, which ultimately saves money.
So basically, UCLA = Michigan if you might only do undergrad so that you can get the best national alum network, but if you plan to pursue a graduate degree for sure then definitely go to Georgia and save yourself the money for grad school, with which you will use to establish your alum network
Ross>UCLA Econ. Yes, it does matter! As the endowment continues to increase at U-M, watch the university increase its out of state financial aid. Times are changing in Ann Arbor!