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With the caveat that my information is a few years past:

I was accepted to both Touro and Stern Honors programs. I originally wanted to go to Stern, thinking the academics were better.

However, I planned to pay my own way through college, and Stern offered me a financial aid package that would have left me deeply in debt, and I wasn’t going into debt to get a BA, which is basically a high school diploma nowadays.

So I went to Touro Honors, where I got multiple scholarships which covered my entire tuition minus a few hundred dollars a year plus books. I did a lot of research before picking classes and professors, and never had a professor without a PhD in my major and minor areas.

Touro is cheaper in general, but the quality of instructors is more consistent in Stern.

I am very pleased with my Touro undergraduate education. I think Touro is better for the self-motivated student who knows what their goals are and has a plan to get there. It is definitely better for a yeshivish girl who wants to remain yeshivish.