Emory Full Tuition vs Stanford

[Anonymous]

Stanford. It’s one of the only schools I’d pay full price for,

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Anonymous wrote:Focus on all the job opportunities a Stanford grad would have, and less on the uber nonsense. Paying back $60k in loans would be quick.

The $240k question is, do kids have better job opportunities because they go to Stanford? Or they have better job opportunities and that is why they are at Stanford?

[Anonymous]

DS has the privilege of getting into Stanford and Emory with a full tuition scholarship. Stanford is full cost of attendance at about 80k, while Emory would be around 20k. We can only afford 55k a year and DS would have to figure out the rest. Of course we don't want to pay that if we don't have to. DS is undecided for Stanford but is interested in econ and Polisci. He would major in business at Emory and another major. DS really likes Emory after visiting, but is Stanford's prestige really worth that much more over Emory?

The amount that your DS would have to pay is far higher than people are estimating. See the post above that points out tuition and fees at Stanford next year will be almost $89,000. Imagine that going up 4-6% per year. A free education from Emory is an excellent option.

Anecdotally, a friend of my DS turned down Princeton for a full ride to UVA, and has never regretted it. That kid is now in med school and had money to help pay for it, instead of having to take out loans for $400,000.

[Anonymous]

First you need to visit the schools. But I'd agree with pp that Stanford now is different than 20 years ago. It is woke and that has limitations. On the other side Emory has a huge northeast contingent. That may be good or bad for you.

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is that your kid just may never get into a great law school, or will completely abandon the idea of grad/professional school. Who knows?

But Stanford is right there.

This! My kid is at Harvard with partial financial aid, but got a full scholarship at another non-Ivy but prestigious college. It kills me every time I pay tuition for Harvard, thinking that college could have been completely free, but my child is thriving there and making the kind of connections I could only dream of at such at young age. Law school may or may not be an option down the line, but for the here and now, paying the price for my child's dream school is worth it.

Congrats to your kid! Do you mind sharing what the other school was (was it indeed BC) and what tipped the scales in favor of Harvard when deciding?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would go for Emory full tuition.

+1. I don't want my kid to be that much in debt by the time they graduate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First you need to visit the schools. But I'd agree with pp that Stanford now is different than 20 years ago. It is woke and that has limitations. On the other side Emory has a huge northeast contingent. That may be good or bad for you.

You people need to stop reading right wing media. The obsession of Stanford students is making money after graduation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First you need to visit the schools. But I'd agree with pp that Stanford now is different than 20 years ago. It is woke and that has limitations. On the other side Emory has a huge northeast contingent. That may be good or bad for you.

+1 I don’t know about the ups and downs of the reputation, but the student experience at Stanford sucks compared to the past.

[Anonymous]

This thread illustrates why kids wind up with six figure student debt before they even get to grad school. Op said they couldn’t afford Stanford but can afford Emory, perhaps with $30,000 a year left over for graduate school fund. No amount of prestige is worth the debt this student/ family wild have to take on to afford Stanford.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread illustrates why kids wind up with six figure student debt before they even get to grad school. Op said they couldn’t afford Stanford but can afford Emory, perhaps with $30,000 a year left over for graduate school fund. No amount of prestige is worth the debt this student/ family wild have to take on to afford Stanford.

Agree. I think people on the East Coast overestimate Stanford, unless you absolutely want to stay in Silicon Valley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stanford. It’s one of the only schools I’d pay full price for,[/quote

Nuts. ]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would go for Emory full tuition.

Me too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First you need to visit the schools. But I'd agree with pp that Stanford now is different than 20 years ago. It is woke and that has limitations. On the other side Emory has a huge northeast contingent. That may be good or bad for you.

You people need to stop reading right wing media. The obsession of Stanford students is making money after graduation

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d send the kid to Stanford even if it meant I was driving Uber at night or on the weekends to pay for it. [/quote

Same. They can pay me back one day (soon).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First you need to visit the schools. But I'd agree with pp that Stanford now is different than 20 years ago. It is woke and that has limitations. On the other side Emory has a huge northeast contingent. That may be good or bad for you.

You people need to stop reading right wing media. The obsession of Stanford students is making money after graduation

Precisely. That is Stanford. It really is about the money. The connections are ridiculous. Everything else is background noise.

- Stanford family