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Make sure to include things that are important to you like pros and cons such as location, being close to family, preference for city type, cost of attendance, ranking, career goals and internship opportunities, etc.

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• Feel free to branch out with your pros and cons

• You can also do more than two schools if you want!

• Please try to respond to a couple of posts before posting your own

Intended major: some business major and some bio-adjacent major.

Boston College

BC Pros:

• In my favorite city in America

• Boston is a booming biomedical research hub, and that's the sector I want to go into

• Excellent financial aid, my most affordable private option (~$22k/yr)

• Very highly ranked compared to my other options

• Beautiful campus and excellent amenities

• Smaller and more personable

• I was admitted to the business school and have the opportunity to double major

BC Cons:

• Still my more expensive option of the two

• Jesuit, and I'm not religious

• Fairly preppy

• 2000 miles from family and friends

ASU

ASU Pros:

• Full tuition scholarship due to national merit award

• Only paying for housing and meal plan, so about ~$13k/yr, then less when I'm not paying for a meal plan

• Warm weather!

• Amazing Honors College

• Very pretty city

ASU Cons:

• Still 900 miles from family and friends

• HUGE. Hard to feel like it's a personal experience.

• Not as highly ranked.