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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact your kid wants to be a doctor changes the equation. Yale is helpful to get into professions such as i banking or start ups. Med school don't care whether it's Yale or BU, they care about the MCATS and gpa. I would take the full scholarship, your kid is going to want to keep loans down if he or she is going to med school and avoid being half a million in debt by the time they are done.

I know tons of people in a competitive medicine field and most of them did not go to ivy leagues. Now if your kid wanted to do a start up or banking or another field then the equation changes again, but as a wannabe doctor whatever school works as long as grades are good and super important to keep student loans down since you'll be studying for a long long time not earning any money. I know doctors with a ton of student loans that can't even hug houses in their mid thirties.[/quote]

But what if he changes his mind like so many college kids do?  I too was premed until I bombed organic chemistry, as were most of my friends.

OP, your child should do whatever gives him the most options long term.  I think that's Yale.[/quote]

NP here. +1,000,000 College students change their career goals change all the time. Many who think they want to become doctors get weeded out. If it were me, I'd want to give my kid every possible option.

The difference in the quality of the student bodies BU and Yale is huge. That's why BU gave him merit money, as it would for nearly any candidate good enough to get into Yale.

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