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Originally posted by Exquisite5
I can speak to this. All of my great-grandparents (and I would venture even further back as well) were born here and the statement about state school is definitely true in my case. I was accepted to Stanford, but chose Texas A&M for financial reasons. I could have gone to Stanford and my parents would have paid for it, but what was the point when I knew I would be following undergrad with professional school AND I literally got PAID to go to Texas A&M? There was no point. Also, as an engineering student Texas A&M was just as a good a choice as any. It was a top 10-15 engineering school (and number ONE in my discipline- bio-engineering), depending on the rank and all the big companies recruit there. The way I see it, I got paid to go to a top engineering school- I made out!
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See, I took the elite school route. It worked well for me, but I think about the money that could have been saved by going to a good state school (even a UC with out-of-state tuition). Especially now that I'm at another Ivy for grad school. Our local recruiter for my undergrad tries to explain to the admissions people why the best students from my state will go to UF over Brown or Harvard, but they just don't get it.
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