Northwestern vs Vanderbilt vs UVA (in-state)

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Anonymous wrote:If medical school is a consideration, probably makes sense to go with the lowest cost option and use difference towards medical school. All three are peers academically so just a fit choice otherwise.

This. I can’t imagine turning down in state UVA for pre-anything.

OMG here the come the UVA boosters again. I will name you many schools to turn down for UVA unless it is only a money question.

1. Any Ivy (yes any, including Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, and Penn).
2. Stanford, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins, Chicago, and any non Ivy in the top 15.

If and I am emphasize If, the intent is premed, going to an Ivy or any of the top 20 privates is one of the dumbest things you can do when choosing a college. Especially Cornell, Columbia, Chicago and Penn. Beyond stupid.

First, you burn yourself down with trying to get good grades.

Two, your competitors are also going to be very competitive for premed which would make it even tougher.

Three, you are going to pay a lot of additional money over going to an instate public school. Money that can be used for medical school and beyond as you would essentially not be earning much for 10 years or more.

Four, the med school you go to is what matters. No one gives a hoot about what college you went to before the med school.

The reported percentages of premeds gaining acceptance from those schools is typically much higher than from schools like Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, and UVA.

The national acceptance rate of premeds into any accredited medical school is only about 40%. The challenge is to get in.

That simplistic review leads you to the wrong conclusion.

The kids who got into Ivy or top 20 schools are already extremely competitive. The cohort going to Ivy's is vastly different from the cohort at a large public school. The vast majority of top 20 school students have already been filtered on several levels. Many in the peer group of pre-med at top 20 schools have a gold something like that on Biology or other Olympiads.

At a large public the pool is much more varied and there is a large segment that is not very competitive. So if you are determined to go into medicine then going from a large public is so much easier.

A large percentage of my extended family is in medical field, went through this process with several kids.

So, you are really arguing that schools with much lower medical school acceptance rates for their premeds are better for premed than those with much higher medical school acceptance rates for their premeds?

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Way too many Vandy boosters on DCUM, for some odd reason.

If money is absolutely no concern, Northwestern. But instate tuition for UVA is a fantastic option, OP.