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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both Yale and Princeton.

I knew she would get in wherever she applied, but we didn't expect to be offered so much in financial incentives.

She turned down both.[/quote]

Where is she going instead?[/quote]

University of Florida.  They have some kind of honors medical school program.  It cuts a year out of the amount of time she'll have to spend in school.  She talked with her pediatrician her senior year of high school when she started thinking about medical school.  She is the one who pointed her towards the UF program.  It's highly competitive, so she may have to go the traditional route in the end.    This is a description of the program - 
[quote]Junior Honors Medical Program offers a fast track to medical school. Students apply to this highly competitive program (12 spaces only) in the second semester of the second year of undergraduate study. If selected, they begin coursework for medical school in the third year and enter the M.D. program in the fourth year. After completion of the first year of medical school, students earn their B.S. degree.
Admission Criteria: 1200 SAT; 3.5 GPA. Apply during sophomore year[/quote]

She was admitted to the Freshman Honors College and is doing really well, so she is headed in the right direction.  I keep waiting for her to change her major.

I should add that we have two other kids in college.  Both of them were pretty good students, but not great.  We didn't do anything special with this one.  No private tutoring or test prep.  She is just really smart.  She is a National Merit Scholar and graduated with a 4.45 GPA.  We knew she would get in to just about any school she wanted to.  I have no idea where she gets it - Both DH and I did o.k. in school, but we studied our asses off.[/quote]
Thanks for sharing. This is really informative.[/quote]

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