Boston U full scholarship vs. Yale full price

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I know 3 doctors who went to Harvard Medical school. (One is my cousin in law). Parents paid for EVERYTHING. Undergraduate, med school, housing. That does lead to the rich doctor lifestyle. No debt. That could be your competition.

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Boston University - no question.

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Where does she want to go? Free is best. Some of those other schools are not that great. I'd pick from BU, Yale and UMD. You are much better off saving the money for medical school. Go look at them and then decide. BU is part very pretty/nice and part very urban. If she cannot get housing, its very expensive. They don't guarantee housing as I had that issue for graduate school and we had a weekend to find a place for me to live and ended up in an expensive studio for lack of better options.

My sibling went to Brown and Hopkins and I think the name schools help for medicine. For other things, no, but for medicine yes. I care where my doctors went to school when I have a choice.

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Did you note in post 23:40 that the students in the top money specialities went to expensive schools ? Those are the docs coming from wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a similar choice years ago. Princeton vs Uva (virtually full ride). I chose Uva because of no loans and my parents could not afford to pay much for my college. After Uva, I ended up at at Harvard medical school and top residencies afterwards. So going to Uva did not hurt my career and I had no debt until medical school.
However:
1. At least 80 percent of my medical school class came from top 15 universities and top 5 LACs. So undergraduate prestige is not essential, but certainly helps at top medical schools.
2. Over the years, even though I have had a successful medical career, I still wish we had the money to make Princeton work.

IMO, if you can make it work financially, I would choose Yale for my child. Congratulations and best wishes.

Princeton is notorious for grade deflation. Princeton set an unofficial quota that professors could give no more 35% of the class A's. if you had attended Princeton, your undergrad GPA most likely would have been lower. With a lower undergrad GPA you wouldn't have gotten into Harvard.
OP, look into grade deflation at Boston U. Your kid is probably would be one of the top students there but keep in mind at Yale 2/3 of a class usually gets A's. If the end goal is medschool a high undergrad GPA is essential.

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Yale. It is arguably the best college in the WORLD. I would find a way to make it work.

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Is it "grace deflation" or honest grading?

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Princeton recently adjusted their grade deflation policy, in large part because their students were being adversely affected by their professional and graduate school admissions

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Anonymous wrote:Is it "grace deflation" or honest grading?

Is it grading on the curve?

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OP I see your child's other choices include UMD-CP (in-state), Notre Dame, Tufts and Haverford full pay.
May I ask why her top two choices are Yale and BU and not Yale and UMD-CP? Mostly curious why UMD-CP is not in the running since that is extremely affordable even without a scholarship. Also can't believe she did not get a scholarship to UMD-CP given her caliber. There are tons of high performing kids at UMD-CP (I think around 40% of the Blair and RMIB magnet kids end up there for financial reasons) and they seem to do very well with med school admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I see your child's other choices include UMD-CP (in-state), Notre Dame, Tufts and Haverford full pay.
May I ask why her top two choices are Yale and BU and not Yale and UMD-CP? Mostly curious why UMD-CP is not in the running since that is extremely affordable even without a scholarship. Also can't believe she did not get a scholarship to UMD-CP given her caliber. There are tons of high performing kids at UMD-CP (I think around 40% of the Blair and RMIB magnet kids end up there for financial reasons) and they seem to do very well with med school admissions.

She likes BU for the possibility of doing the 7 year liberal arts/med school program.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I see your child's other choices include UMD-CP (in-state), Notre Dame, Tufts and Haverford full pay.
May I ask why her top two choices are Yale and BU and not Yale and UMD-CP? Mostly curious why UMD-CP is not in the running since that is extremely affordable even without a scholarship. Also can't believe she did not get a scholarship to UMD-CP given her caliber. There are tons of high performing kids at UMD-CP (I think around 40% of the Blair and RMIB magnet kids end up there for financial reasons) and they seem to do very well with med school admissions.

She likes BU for the possibility of doing the 7 year liberal arts/med school program.

The 7 year accelerated program has a separate admissions process. I don't think she can apply or transfer in later. BU does have an early med school admission program, but you don't shave off a year of school.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I see your child's other choices include UMD-CP (in-state), Notre Dame, Tufts and Haverford full pay.
May I ask why her top two choices are Yale and BU and not Yale and UMD-CP? Mostly curious why UMD-CP is not in the running since that is extremely affordable even without a scholarship. Also can't believe she did not get a scholarship to UMD-CP given her caliber. There are tons of high performing kids at UMD-CP (I think around 40% of the Blair and RMIB magnet kids end up there for financial reasons) and they seem to do very well with med school admissions.

She likes BU for the possibility of doing the 7 year liberal arts/med school program.

The 7 year accelerated program has a separate admissions process. I don't think she can apply or transfer in later. BU does have an early med school admission program, but you don't shave off a year of school.

Yes, that is my point. She has applied and was accepted to the 7-year medical school program, and would need to maintain a 3.2 GPA and score in the 80th percentile on the MCAT to continue in the program. She also would not be able to apply to other medical schools which we are not sure about.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I see your child's other choices include UMD-CP (in-state), Notre Dame, Tufts and Haverford full pay.
May I ask why her top two choices are Yale and BU and not Yale and UMD-CP? Mostly curious why UMD-CP is not in the running since that is extremely affordable even without a scholarship. Also can't believe she did not get a scholarship to UMD-CP given her caliber. There are tons of high performing kids at UMD-CP (I think around 40% of the Blair and RMIB magnet kids end up there for financial reasons) and they seem to do very well with med school admissions.

She likes BU for the possibility of doing the 7 year liberal arts/med school program.

The 7 year accelerated program has a separate admissions process. I don't think she can apply or transfer in later. BU does have an early med school admission program, but you don't shave off a year of school.

Yes, that is my point. She has applied and was accepted to the 7-year medical school program, and would need to maintain a 3.2 GPA and score in the 80th percentile on the MCAT to continue in the program. She also would not be able to apply to other medical schools which we are not sure about.

Hang on. So not only does she get a full scholarship for undergrad, she shaves one year off med school and saves money? OMG OP, this is a no brainer, take BU. This will set your child up financially for life. And she'll be just as good and competitive a doctor at BU as anywhere else.

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Above poster here who talked about Princeton vs Uva. I agree this is a no-brainer. I would take the BU program. Acceptance rates to medical school range from 2-7%.