Wherein my life seems to look like Legally Blonde..
I wrote this on April 2, but I never posted it o.O
So, as mentioned in my last entry, I was rejected at my 5 Ivy League schools. I was a horrible mess for about 4 hours because I just didn't understand how I got rejected at Yale and this complete and utter asshole and idiot in my calc and physics class got in. Turns out the dude, who is an idiot (did I mention that?) has like 4 generations who went to Yale, including both parents and can pay the entire $53,000 cost.
And then there's me. According to FAFSA, my parents and I can only pay $15,000 for college. So, um, a little math here.
Total: $53400 (assumed off of the costs of MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Northwestern) x 4 = $213600 (Side note: that is more than what my house costs)
My contribution (total): $60000
Difference: $153600 (Daaaammnn...)
Um yeah. I'm not really bitter about not getting into Columbia/Princeton/Yale/Harvard/UPenn, but it would make my current situation of having to decide between Northwestern and Carnegie Mellon easier.
Speaking of which, I can't decide. Every single time I even MENTION wanting to go to Northwestern, my mom launches into this rant about how Carnegie Mellon is world-renowned, etc. and I seriously can't take it anymore. (EDIT: After much deliberation and the realization that Northwestern is cheaper/giving me more money and that their biomedical engineering program works with their AMAZING med school, my parents like them more)
Continued in next post for chronological reasons :D
So, as mentioned in my last entry, I was rejected at my 5 Ivy League schools. I was a horrible mess for about 4 hours because I just didn't understand how I got rejected at Yale and this complete and utter asshole and idiot in my calc and physics class got in. Turns out the dude, who is an idiot (did I mention that?) has like 4 generations who went to Yale, including both parents and can pay the entire $53,000 cost.
And then there's me. According to FAFSA, my parents and I can only pay $15,000 for college. So, um, a little math here.
Total: $53400 (assumed off of the costs of MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Northwestern) x 4 = $213600 (Side note: that is more than what my house costs)
My contribution (total): $60000
Difference: $153600 (Daaaammnn...)
Um yeah. I'm not really bitter about not getting into Columbia/Princeton/Yale/Harvard/UPenn, but it would make my current situation of having to decide between Northwestern and Carnegie Mellon easier.
Speaking of which, I can't decide. Every single time I even MENTION wanting to go to Northwestern, my mom launches into this rant about how Carnegie Mellon is world-renowned, etc. and I seriously can't take it anymore. (EDIT: After much deliberation and the realization that Northwestern is cheaper/giving me more money and that their biomedical engineering program works with their AMAZING med school, my parents like them more)
Continued in next post for chronological reasons :D