<p>1st school:
I first visited Washington University in St. Louis last spring and have loved it since I first stepped on campus. I have been back 4-5 times and fall in love even more each time I am there. I am going to major in economics and go on to grad school to obtain a dual MBA/JD degree. Also, I will have the opportunity to play for the Bears Women’s Basketball Team which has been a DIII powerhouse for over 20 years. I love the coaches, the team, and everyone I have met at WashU. It has pretty much been a dream of mine for the last year to attend WashU. I have gotten a pretty good financial aid package but it will still cost me $20,000 a year to attend.</p>
<p>2nd school:
On March 23, I was awarded one of the most prestigious scholarships in the state of Indiana. This scholarship is a four-year full-tuition scholarship to any accredited public or private university in the state of Indiana. If I choose to stay in Indiana, I will attend DePauw University. DePauw is a great school and has a strong reputation for its economics department. I went down to visit this week and was accepted into the Management Fellows Program. This is a prestigious program that will ensure me an awesome internship and great connections upon graduation. Also at DePauw, I will have the opportunity to play basketball. They also are DIII and ironically beat WashU in the national championship game (so no matter what I will be playing at an awesome and well-respected program). Now that I’ve had the opportunity to visit DePauw, I now love the coaches, the team, and everyone I have met there as well. If I chose to attend DePauw, I will be making money, because I was awarded a $17,000 scholarship before I received the full-ride. I have talked to my parents and it sounds like I will be able to pick out any new car I would like if I choose to attend DePauw also.</p>
<p>I just wanted to get some imput while I was making my decision.
DePauw or WashU??
At WashU I will come out with close to $80,000 in loans, at DePauw I will have nothing to pay at all.
Which one of these schools sounds like the better choice and opportunity?
Thanks in advance for your feedback.</p>
<p>1st school:
I first visited Washington University in St. Louis last spring and have loved it since I first stepped on campus. I have been back 4-5 times and fall in love even more each time I am there. I am going to major in economics and go on to grad school to obtain a dual MBA/JD degree. Also, I will have the opportunity to play for the Bears Women’s Basketball Team which has been a DIII powerhouse for over 20 years. I love the coaches, the team, and everyone I have met at WashU. It has pretty much been a dream of mine for the last year to attend WashU. I have gotten a pretty good financial aid package but it will still cost me $20,000 a year to attend.</p>
<p>2nd school:
On March 23, I was awarded one of the most prestigious scholarships in the state of Indiana. This scholarship is a four-year full-tuition scholarship to any accredited public or private university in the state of Indiana. If I choose to stay in Indiana, I will attend DePauw University. DePauw is a great school and has a strong reputation for its economics department. I went down to visit this week and was accepted into the Management Fellows Program. This is a prestigious program that will ensure me an awesome internship and great connections upon graduation. Also at DePauw, I will have the opportunity to play basketball. They also are DIII and ironically beat WashU in the national championship game (so no matter what I will be playing at an awesome and well-respected program). Now that I’ve had the opportunity to visit DePauw, I now love the coaches, the team, and everyone I have met there as well. If I chose to attend DePauw, I will be making money, because I was awarded a $17,000 scholarship before I received the full-ride. I have talked to my parents and it sounds like I will be able to pick out any new car I would like if I choose to attend DePauw also.</p>
<p>I just wanted to get some imput while I was making my decision.
DePauw or WashU??
At WashU I will come out with close to $80,000 in loans, at DePauw I will have nothing to pay at all.
Which one of these schools sounds like the better choice and opportunity?
Thanks in advance for your feedback.</p>
<p>depauw for two years then transfer to wustl or a better school. top grad schools do care where you get your undergrad degree from. have you tried notre dame?</p>
<p>De Pauw in a heartbeat. Your performance there will determine where you get into grad school, not the name on the top of the diploma (and nothing wrong with the name either!).</p>
<p>I would encourage everyone to look at the admission figures published by the Harvard Law School. Outside of perhaps HYS, once one adjusts for quality of student body (and thus projected scores on LSAT), it is clearly performance that matters, not name.</p>
<p>Plymouth
you may not be understanding the scholarship aspect correctly
No school will let you be packaged for more than their published “cost of attendance”,no matter how much institutional or outside scholarship money you were originally awarded.
Therefore you may “make” some $$ above your tuition/room/board costs (as my S has at his U) but certainly not enough to buy a car with.
S had to turn down 1 University scholarship plus 1 from his fathers employer as it would have put him above te cost of attendance at his institution.
Look at the DePauw website and put “cost of attandance” in their search box to get their figure.It includes room/board/tition/books/transportation,etc.</p>
<p>DePauw. It’s a great school, very good women’s basketball team, great campus, etc., etc. — WashU simply isn’t $80,000 better. Do well at DePauw, taking advantage of the many opportunities available to you there, and you will have no trouble getting into a top grad school. Remember to do some internships, because work experience is important.</p>
<p>cathyme: I may not be understanding you but colleges do offer scholarships that provide room ,board, tuition, significant stipend (up to 12K or more per year) and if an outside scholarship is not restricted it can also go to a stipend. So a student could have 15-20K or more per year above cost of attendence. Depends on the programs and school.</p>
There’s your answer, Plymouth. From your description, you are giving up nothing by choosing DePauw except an $80,000 debt! I would just check into the acceptance rates DePauw grads have in law & business schools before making the final decision.</p>
<p>I just thought of something, though … DePauw is pretty strict about offering ONLY tuition scholarships … no scholarships for room & board are available, to my knowledge. You might want to check … they may not allow you to keep your academic scholarship if you have a state scholarship that stipulates it is to be used for tuition. It’s best to check before you make any decisions.</p>
<p>oldolddad
Outside scholarships would be applied FIRST to the costs at the college.Then,institutional aid would be applied to the remainder of the costs (if any). There are some items in an institutions cost of attendance that are not direct (like transportation) and a student would be given a refund towards those costs,but I’ve never heard of anyone being allowed to keep an unrestricted amount of funding.
If anyone knows of outside scholarships that are unrestricted in their use(that is, not restricted to published cost of attendance figures for a University) than I havent heard about them,and I certainly would like to,as S’s experience having to decline outside $$and my experience as a former FA Officer tells me otherwise.S would sure have liked that extra 2500 and 1500 in his pocket.</p>
<p>im in a position child choosing better school on scholarship over closer state school an hour a way. She isn’t the most social person, i worry she will find that distance too far…and it is difficult to transfer back.
what should i tell her, go for it?? or tell her to evaluate herself and whether she can be away for months ata time? Always been a little behind socially but that hasn’t been a bad thing since the ones that are up there are drinking and …
add she is a chronic migraine sufferer.
her focus is the better education and i think there are so many other factors to consider.</p>
<p>I am in the position of having a full tuition scholarship to Tulane or paying full tuition to WashU or Emory. I am interested in studying finance and plan to go on to grad school. I am leaning towards Tulane but worried that the name isn’t big enough to get me into the top grad schools and that I will not get the same quality of education.</p>
<p>1457, Full tuition scholarship at Tulane would be hard to turn down in my book. WashU and Emory certainly must be over 40K a year now. That’s a lot of money you and your parents can save to put toward grad school, house, car, etc. Tulane may not have the name prestige of WashU or Emory, but it is a very good school. In my humble opinion, take Tulane and the scholarship. No question, the right choice.</p>
<p>As long as NO is okay for you then Tulane is a good school. Had several students of mine turn down top schools to take the full scholarhsip to Tulane. All have loved it and gone on to graduate and do great things(in cluding getting into top med and grad schools).</p>
<p>Tulane is fine school from what I hear (as are WUSTL and Emory, of course, but I don’t know if they’re really $120k better). If you’ve visited and legimately liked the school, I’d say it looks like a good choice.</p>