Vanderbilt (Full Ride) vs Harvard ($18k/year) vs Yale ($14k/year) vs Duke ($19.5k/year)

[Anonymous]

H or Y. my kid picked Y after visits and bulldog days, but can't go wrong and it depends on what they want to study.

[Anonymous]

Harvard is a better city and name recognition and easier travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard is a better city and name recognition and easier travel.

unless you're talking about some remote village in Indonesia, they all have name recognition to last a lifetime

[Anonymous]

Yale and exit with loans under 60k. Pick a major that will lead to employment. If they want to do law or medicine, go to candy and graduate debt free.

[Anonymous]

Yale is law or medicine, Harvard if business congrats.

[Anonymous]

Wtf? My kid is paying $90k at Yale? What is your HHI to only be paying $14k?

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard or Yale duh. Why would you even consider Vandy. It’s for dumb rich kids. Duke is slightly better but still a big drop below HY

Maybe in the 90s, but that hasn't been true in a long time. Vandy's average ACT is 34. They're competing with several Ivies for students now, and they are very hard to get into. The unique mix of Greek life, SEC sports, and warm weather has made them extremely enticing to a lot of high school seniors.

Vandy is 50% mo scores for crying out loud. Other schools have a 35 average with 100% submitting (test required). Low scorers don’t submit to V. Duh

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Anonymous wrote:What family income gets that much aid these days?

I grew up poor and took the prestige school discounted with financial aid and student loans instead of full ride at a safety school. I think it was a good move career-wise but I did feel under prepared at HYPS and sometimes wonder what it would have been like to be one of the smarter kids at the less prestigious school instead of feeling like just squeaking by. It was a little rough on the self esteem.

This.

[Anonymous]

All good schools and not that far apart in cost for you. Let him make this decision and own it, instead of pushing him towards one you prefer as getting such great acceptances and still having to feel like he had to compromise isn't a good feeling.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard is a better city and name recognition and easier travel.

unless you're talking about some remote village in Indonesia, they all have name recognition to last a lifetime

Imo no, abroad Harvard is much much better known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard is a better city and name recognition and easier travel.

unless you're talking about some remote village in Indonesia, they all have name recognition to last a lifetime

Imo no, abroad Harvard is much much better known.

I lived in Beijing and Paris for 5+ years each, and ITD. That might have been true 25 years ago (in Beijing, not Paris), but I doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations.
Yale - all day long and twice on Sunday.

[Anonymous]

While no place is nirvana, and there are a-holes everywhere, I'd argue that if your kid isn't white, hetero, male-identifying and mainstream Xian, he should avoid all red states. It doesn't matter if Vandy and much of Nashville lean blue: all students like to get away from campus every so often, and given what's going on politically, being a targeted minority in a red state is a risk factor (plus New Haven pizza is superior to and healthier than Nashville hot chicken)

[Anonymous]

oh yes definitely choose one over the other based on pizza and hot chicken.

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Anonymous wrote:Wtf? My kid is paying $90k at Yale? What is your HHI to only be paying $14k?

There are some schools that will make it work for everyone they want. And Yale is one of them. We - middle class - gave our kids a list of these schools. And they both now attend T20 schools that cost less than State U.

To use an example, Harvard tuition is free for those under $200,000 annual income. You just need to get into these schools. But the aid is there for all students they want.