Williams College (Questbridge) vs Berkeley (OOS)

What about splitting it? Go to Williams for a year, see how you like it? Connect with professors, do as well as you can. If it is a poor cultural and geographical fit, then professors will more than likely help you transfer. And I wouldn’t just limit myself to Berkeley. Apply to Stanford, MIT, caltech, Berkeley. And before you leave Williams, get a paid summer internship with their career resources.

  1. you will have saved well over 50k!
  2. instead of taking other people’s word for it, you will know for yourself bad fit
  3. get another shot at top tech schools, not just ucb. Maybe with the same aid as Williams.
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