<p>OP,</p>
<p>Have you visited the schools? Have you had a chance to get to know the students at each school? Are there external factors (location, weather, architecture, food, social circles, ECs on campus, etc) that are at all important for you?</p>
<p>My son turned down full rides at UT Dallas, Vanderbilt, and an almost full ride at Caltech (would have been about $1300 a year) as well as fantastic aid at Princeton (also admitted SCEA last year and would have been maybe $2-3k a year after outside scholarship) in order to attend MIT.</p>
<p>I don’t think MIT offers more opportunity on the surface but the student population, his many friendships, his dorm, his deep involvement in Campus Crusade for Christ, and the location of MIT as well as being a STEM school (he’s planning a double major in math and management) were absolutely deciding factors in MIT. This year’s out of pocket costs were very low (apx. $2650), but they will go up each year. Still, it is, by far, the best fit for him out of the 10 schools to which he applied and was accepted.</p>
<p>If you have the luxury, find the school that’s the best fit as far as you can tell. All three of your schools sound just great! Congratulations on having this dilema. :-)</p>