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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we are in a somewhat similar position (father MD and kids want to follow). I think you’re crazy to think $300k is a drop in the bucket unless there are other factors. MDs don’t make nearly as much as you think and got a much later start on savings likely and/or heavy debt themselves. 
The biggest advantage my husband will be able to give them is opportunities to shadow and research. It is now expected to have that before applying to med school (did not use to be). Those connections are far more valuable than anything else.
In the same situation (albeit different schools), my kid chose the full ride to a state school. [/quote]

+1, exactly on point.

Besides, the applicant should consider whether the T20 school even wants so many doctors as graduates.  The T20 schools want to have major impacts on society, so unless the future MD is going to invent a stent (and thereby make enough $ to buy the LA Dodgers) or brilliant enough to become a professor in the T20 medical schools (a profession which is not for everyone) they don't want so many graduates to become MDs.  Hence the weed-out classes and social pressures in the T20 schools discourage the pre-meds.  Moreover, if the DC is brilliant enough to get into a T20 school (the 164+ IQ cited by PP), DC may also figure out that there are many professions that are just as intellecually stimulating (if not more) and remunerative (if not more) than medicine.

So yes, if your DC is dead set on becoming an MD, doing well at state school and scoring well on MCATs is the best course to ensure that DC actually becomes a doctor.  The MDs who posted this earlier in the thread have got it right.
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