偶最近查了一些学校，发觉top 30很多公立学校第一轮deadline比较迟，还有学费和申请费比私立要便宜很多，

偶想问问有经验的前辈，公立大学比私立大学缺点在哪里？

是否1）admission竞争比私立激烈？(但是我又看了class profile感觉大多公立的学校G平均分较低，感觉可能不准，而且 admission criteria不只是G,欢迎前辈拍砖~~~)

       2）基本没有奖学金？而私立还有那么一点机会争取到full tuition and stipend

       3）reputation没有私立好？尽管这点偶一直没觉得

       4）地理位置？从而影响到找工作的几率？

两者还有什么区别呢？希望前辈赐教！

Many thanx~~

个人认为除了钱的问题，质量相差不大。

你不要看排名，要看你为什么去读？为什么去那个学校？选校要根据你将来想做什么，而就读的学校能否帮助你来决定。

私立名校多

公立总体学费要便宜一点

this only applies to schools at the same level

public school:

Pro:a little cheaper if you are international student, larger alumni networ.

Conimited free resource, average career service

不太明白，为什么会larger alumni network?

那与其在同一个level的私立大学是不是竞争也差不多呢？

Take a look at each school's acceptance rate, you will get an idea how selective that school is. Don't waste time comparing between public and private.

If we only look at the top15 schools, the average cost of public schools is at most 10% less than that of private ones. Therefore, the difference is really not that much. However, the everage ranking of public ones is also slightly lower.

我也觉得排名靠前的公立和私立的价钱都差不多的，没有什么差别。也没有州内学生的discount价格。

对了，米西根是不是公立的，好像前两年华尔街排名第一过，我认识一个朋友的LG从里面毕业的。好像这里也很少看到有人提起哈？

Yes, UM is a public school, one of the best public schools in the US.

There are many good schools that people on this forum don't talk much about. There are many ways to know the schools you are interested in besides reading this forum.