Am I justifiably terrified?, 2005...2005...2005... Options

[*CrackedRearView*]

I have 1,000 different directions I can take.

ACT: 35 composite
SAT I: 1520 composite

The list goes on of activities, GPA, etc, etc.

I can pretty much go anywhere I want to go, but I've narrowed it down to 3 schools on each coast that I've been accepted to.

Please, help me. And take into consideration cost, retaining a social life, etc. All are huge factors for me.

WEST COAST

University of California: Berkeley
Pepperdine
Stanford University

EAST COAST

The Johns Hopkins University
University of Princeton
New York University

(all of these, East and West coast, are with the assumption that after 4 years, I will transfer to the Massachussetts Institute of Technology; my lifelong dream)

I'm visiting the campus at the University of California: San Diego over Christmas break, as well. I might even just head there because my entire family lives in Corona del Mar.

You see my problem? So indecisive...this sucks...

[comeupon]

An alternative approach would be to leave the country and try for Europe, theres a lot of good technological schools that if you graduate with a 3.8 or above you'll get into MIT in a heart beat. Much cheaper too, you might end up paying something like 40-50% less for the same if not better education. The one bad thing is traveling is hard and they have a different approach to teaching. That is how my uncle did it, he graduated MIT in 94? Something like that. He went to a sister school of Oxford's for 4 years then transferred to MIT with honors and almost a full scholorship. ofcourse this was back in the day, things might have changed since then