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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she is really pre-health, this is idea. No undergrad tuition!!! Get a super high GPA, lean into whatever health opportunities exist in the area, and set yourself apart. Do well on MCAT and boom. I understand how you feel, but this may be a tremendous opportunity. For a business degree, I would have a different opinion.[/quote]

This is the big fish/small pond approach. I went to a seminar given by college admissions officers  - full disclosure it was a long time ago in a professional capacity -and they endorsed this approach to graduate school admission. If your kid is at the top of their class at ES, and they do great on the MCAT they might have an advantage over a kid who did just ok at Lehigh or Villanova.[/quote]

Admittedly, I don't have experience with med schools, but if it's this simple, why doesn't everyone who wants to be a doctor take this approach? It would seem like much more of a sure thing than going to the higher ranked schools for undergrad. That makes me think there's more to it than that?[/quote]

There's absolutely more to it than that. Because it's BS. There are ALWAYS outliers/exceptions, but as a rule - it pays to get the best education you can. Best professors, best connected prgrams that are well known in the field. This is simply fact. Anecdotes don't really prove anything. You CAN win the lottery, for example, but that doesn't mean you should buy a ticket every day as your retirement plan.

OP - is your dd making this decision because she senses your financial anxiety or has a sense of obligation? My dd chose her first school (and then transferred to a school like Lehigh/villanova)  for financial reasons (we found out later) and it wasn't a good fit AT ALL. She admitted after freshman year that she felt guilty (even though we are full pay and never made her feel guilty). I'd be pretty honest about the best fit culturally and academically, socially. If you took money out of it, what would you do?[/quote]

Does it actually pay? I know many doctors and lawyers, all in similar positions whether they went to regional, no name schools or Ivies.[/quote]

I do wonder if it really pays especially when you factor in cost. I don't know that ESU is a good option here but my one close friend who is a doctor (and an Ivy grad) has a kid who wants to be a doctor and she goes to a well-ranked regional public university, saving money for medical school. They could afford more and she had the stats to be competitive for a higher ranked school (and their older child went to dad's Ivy (different career goals)) but felt this was the better approach for pre-med.  But the public U she goes to would be more equivalent to Providence College or The College of New Jersey, the top ranked regional schools in the "North". [/quote]

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