Anonymous wrote:Some friends of mine (from NY) have a child who was offered essentially a free ride at Lehigh to study chemistry. The child was accepted at Dartmouth, as well, and wanted to go there instead, no aid, or very little compared to Lehigh. So now she's at Sartmouth and the parents are mortgaging their house.

Take the money, kids.

Wow. That teaches the kid the completely wrong lesson. Mortgaging the house? Shit.

As for OP: Only you know how much this money means to you and what you will have to give up to pay for UVA. UVA is certainly more highly regarded, but not highly enough to take on debt.

As for UVM: The school is good enough. The professors take teaching very, very seriously and do well by their students. There are some good students, but because of the Vermont voucher system, the best kids in the state often leave, rather than attend UVM, so there aren't as many top students as at UVA. The dregs of the New England prep school classes sometimes wind up there. Burlington is an amazing place to go to school. Great winter sports, cute town, lots of outdoor stuff to do, drop dead gorgeous lake.

Don't mortgage your house. It will be nice if you now have money to help with grad school.

Anonymous wrote:What is UVM?

University of Vermont.

Vert Mont (Vermont is in the Green Mountains)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some friends of mine (from NY) have a child who was offered essentially a free ride at Lehigh to study chemistry. The child was accepted at Dartmouth, as well, and wanted to go there instead, no aid, or very little compared to Lehigh. So now she's at Sartmouth and the parents are mortgaging their house.

Take the money, kids.

Gonna have to disagree with you there. An Ivy versus a second tier school. That's nice of the parents to do.

Yeah, but chemistry? I think Lehigh would have been the better choice for a science major.

Anonymous wrote:Some friends of mine (from NY) have a child who was offered essentially a free ride at Lehigh to study chemistry. The child was accepted at Dartmouth, as well, and wanted to go there instead, no aid, or very little compared to Lehigh. So now she's at Sartmouth and the parents are mortgaging their house.

Take the money, kids.

Gonna have to disagree with you there. An Ivy versus a second tier school. That's nice of the parents to do.

Anonymous wrote:What is UVM?

University of Vermont.

Anonymous wrote:What is UVM?

Vermont.

^ Dartmouth, of course.

Uvm definitley. Take lots of science heavy classes, and get mostly As.

Some friends of mine (from NY) have a child who was offered essentially a free ride at Lehigh to study chemistry. The child was accepted at Dartmouth, as well, and wanted to go there instead, no aid, or very little compared to Lehigh. So now she's at Sartmouth and the parents are mortgaging their house.

Take the money, kids.

What is UVM?

Med schools believe it or not are not that picky about the undergrad name. What they care about are the challenge of the courses and the grades. From a financial point of view you are way better of going with UVM and saving that money to apply towards med school. It won't harm pre-med status. There is always the social angle of course, but if money matters I'd say UVM no matter how much DC thinks UVA is the cooler place to be.

OP -- Have you looked into whether the two schools provide info on their percentage of successful med school acceptances? I would think that would be a relevant factor too.

UVM, no question.

-Person who deeply regrets doing pretty much the opposite (with equivalent schools)

I don't know the programs very well but if you are considering med school, I would think the money you would save would come in very handy. Would you pay for either/both undergrad or med school with loans?

DC is interested in pre-med. UVM offered full tuition merit scholarship, spot in the Honors College. With UVA, we'll pay OOS but get the $10,000 DC TAG.

For premed, what would you choose?