Wash U vs. Yale

fallenchemist
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:41:20 +0000

Well, I don’t at all agree you will “be a number” at Yale. It isn’t that big, and that is just absurd.

Having said that, I am completely unclear on how you “take out” many small scholarships. Usually you have to win scholarships, even small ones, and most of those deadlines have passed. And then you say there would still be loans. It just isn’t worth the nameplate of Yale, especially since you will almost no doubt either go on to med school or grad school. In either case where you went undergrad becomes far less meaningful in terms of professional reputation. It is almost all ego at being able to say “I am at/went to Yale” and the immediacy of that recognition versus the certainly lesser effect of WUSTL. But so what if you can say “I went to med school at Johns Hopkins” or “I got my grad degree at Yale”. And that is a lot more personally satisfying when you are debt free after undergrad. Tell people that and they will be far more envious.