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[quote=Anonymous]Less stress if you know that this is what you want to do.
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Might get into a better college and/or med school OR might feel compelled to follow a career path you chose as a teenager/before college.

Personally, I think that the better college/med school issue isn’t a big one (or can be minimized by looking only at BA/MD programs at good schools). So maybe you go to Northwestern rather than Princeton. Who cares? You certainly aren’t worrying about how where you went to college will affect your grad school apps. And if you can’t get an excellent undergrad education at Northwestern, then you probably wouldn’t have gotten one at Princeton either.  And (correct me if I’m wrong), it seems as if where you get your MD matters MUCH less than where you get a JD or a PhD or an MBA.

The “feeling compelled to follow a prematurely chosen career path” downside really depends on the student and on family dynamics. You don’t actually HAVE to go to med school and if you’ve found something you’d rather do, then college has served one of its functions.

I guess it’s a long sentence if you end up hating the University you’ve chosen and/or its environs.[/quote]

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