If you could go to college anywhere for free where would you go?
Here are the top ten schools in the world according to some site :) but they seem legitimate link 1 HARVARD University - US 2 YALE University - US 3 University of CAMBRIDGE - UK 4 University of OXFORD - UK 5 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology - US 6 IMPERIAL College London - UK 7 UCL (University College London) - UK 8 University of CHICAGO - US 9 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT) - US 10 COLUMBIA University - US (Damn our socialistic education system! With it's affirmative action and payment plans for low income families! We're falling behind! lmao) But the best school for Astrophysics theory I saw somewhere was Princeton... and Princeton is ranked a respectable 12, so I'd go with that :) Side: Princeton
:) Look at Stanford, even though they're one of my school's arch enemy in basketball, they're probably the closest thing on the West Coast to Ivy League. The story goes, Mr. Stanford wanted to send his son to Harvard, or one of those Ivy League schools. He and his wife showed up in their homespun clothes to meet with the Dean and inquire about tuition for their son, The Dean snickered, seeing their ragged clothes and assuming there was no way they could afford it. He went on to describe just how much it would cost to send their son to this Ivy League school, Mr. Stanford sat patiently, showing no sign of irritation. When the Dean was through, he asked with genuine curiousity, "just how much money does it take to run a place like this?" The Dean told him with a smile. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford headed back to CA that day, and started Stanford University. :) probably the coolest story I've ever heard, if true. Side: Stanford
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For my undergrad (if I had it to do over again and it was free), Duke, because it's a seriously beautiful campus and the food is great for college food and they're always having live music and free drinks and all sorts of great things. And it's close-ish to where I grew up, so that would've been nice to be so close. And also, did I mention that it is seriously beautiful? (Wishing I could embed pictures so hard right now!): Oh! And they're environmentally with it. For graduate school, I suppose University of Washington, because that's my dream school not for free, and I really want to move to Seattle, and it's the 8th best program in the country for what I want to go for. Going for free would totally rock my world. Side: Duke
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