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[quote=Anonymous]No opinion about either school but I would encourage your child to find out which school is more likely to provide:

research opportunities for undergraduates
Clinical experience (working in a medical setting such as a clinic or hospital or as an EMT)

Getting into medical school requires excellent grades, excellent MCAT scores, multiple letters of recommendation, hundreds of hours of clinical experience, hundreds of hours of research experience, 100 plus hours shadowing doctors, hundreds of hours of volunteering experience and meaningful leadership experience.

Also look into whether either school weeds out prospective medical school applicants by refusing to provide a “committee “ letter unless the student meets their requirements.

Finally give serious consideration to going to your instate university (as long as going there can help you meet the premed requirements I mentioned- eg are there medical facilities near campus). As you pointed out medical school is expensive- it can easily cost over $100k a year and you don’t usually get a chance to pick a cheaper option- you go where you get admission.  For undergraduate studies on the other hand, most good students can choose between different schools at different price points.

Both schools should have premed advisement centers and they might have information about how premed students navigate their four years.  Be careful of any stats they present about how many of their premed students are successfully admitted to med school. Some schools only support the applications of highly qualified candidates which makes their numbers look good. [/quote]

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