Which one should I choose..?

fallenchemist
Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:52:35 +0000

Two great schools, but pretty different in so many ways. Size, urban vs. rural, weather, state school vs. private, so on and so forth. I am guessing cost must not be an issue for you since you don’t mention it.

Surely with such differences, there must be some things that you like better enough about one than the other. I can understand that you might be a very adaptable person, equally comfortable in various situations. Still, you must have preferences about the everyday things outside of academics, as well as things related to academics like class size.

I wouldn’t focus on where you think you could get the higher GPA. There are so many factors that go into how well you do in school, and being in a school with the right fit is certainly one of them. You might thrive a lot more in an atmosphere where you can get to know your profs better, and so do better even though the academic quality of your peers is somewhat higher. In fact that very fact, the rigor as you call it, also spurs a lot of students on to do better, keeps them sharp and focused. Everyone can be different, so unless you know this already about yourself, and many don’t before they go to college, it is not a criteria you probably want to focus on too much. Personally (again assuming cost is not an issue) I would focus more on where you felt most comfortable, which one intrigued you or excited you more, something like that.

No one can tell you which to choose, otherwise everyone here would tell you Tulane, lol. But the more honest answer is to think about what it is you like about each school and what you think is most important to you in a school and match that up to see which one has more of what you want. With the two being so different, as I already said, one should emerge as your favorite. If you had said Tulane and Vanderbilt or Tulane and Emory, it would be much harder. The two schools you are considering have starker differences.