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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not for a pre-professional program.  Save the money for MCAT/LSAT training and tell your kid to stand out on campus at the state U.[/quote]

What if the state U is, say, one with an 80% admission rate. So ranked not highly at all? The in between option(s) was not one that DC liked (you know, like a 30-50% admit).[/quote]

Why are you worried about the admission rate? You should be focused on the outcomes.

Who cares if a university has a high admission rate? What a peculiar thing to fuss about.[/quote]

Agreed.  My kid attended a great school (ranked in Top 100), got 35% of tuition merit award (they were at ~50percentile for stats), got an amazing education and great job after graduation.  It was the perfect school for my kid---they found their group of friends who are okay with As and Bs (not strivers by any stretch, do well academically but as long as they are getting Bs they are satisfied).  Acceptance rate is 85-87%.  They chose between this and another similarly ranked school (both Jesuit) with similar acceptance rates.  
But if you had a kid with higher stats (75%+) they would find their group as well, with many strivers/kids in the honors program/kids premed/prePA/prePT/etc.  
Those kids whose goal is medical school/dental school/PT school are strivers and working their asses off to maintain a high GPA.  Plenty of really smart kids there---many with excellent merit to make it almost as affordable as their state school, but with the perks of smaller classes, an amazing premed program, opportunities to work with cadavers in undergrad lab.

But pretty amazing university with a really high acceptance rate.[/quote]

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