xan

Got into a number of MA programs this fall, including Sociocultural Anthro at Columbia, the New School & Cambridge, World Cultures PhD at UCLA, MAPSS at UChicago, and East Asian Studies at Duke. All of these gave me some level of funding except for Duke, as I transferred into their East Asian program really late from another Duke MA program. Cambridge offered me 10k GBP, UChicago offered me 2/3 tuition. I turned them down. For Duke. I visited the schools, maintained contact with a couple professors at Duke who were quite supportive, and thought long and hard through every aspect of my future grad education, and Duke was still my dream school mainly due to its big name in Western Marxism traditions. Is this an incomprehensibly stupid choice? Just notified UChicago and Duke about my decision (I asked for extended deadline to reply to my offers), but I feel stupid and can't stop thinking about all the money I turned down =( Any thoughts..?