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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if a college was offering me free undergrad plus a $4k stipend every year, I'd at least go look. If you know you're headed to medical school, I'd save every dollar I could on undergrad.

But you aren’t giving up a thing.
The school is great and has the most NMFs in the country.

And is 100% not at all the same environment as ivy/T10 privates. It just is not. Super smart students give that up if they pick Bama

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if a college was offering me free undergrad plus a $4k stipend every year, I'd at least go look. If you know you're headed to medical school, I'd save every dollar I could on undergrad.

But you aren’t giving up a thing.
The school is great and has the most NMFs in the country.

And is 100% not at all the same environment as ivy/T10 privates. It just is not. Super smart students give that up if they pick Bama

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Anonymous wrote:100% of what? 100% of NMF kids to UA medical school? 100% of premed kids to "any" medical school?? 100% of NMF kids to any medical school?? You need to know. We passed on UA w/ 3 of my NMF/NMS kids.

Alabama places 100% of kids in McCollough, a pre-med program kids apply to as freshman. They also have really good placements (although getting in to any med school is very hard now).

No, 44% of all applicants get in to at least one US MD program. That is not too hard. Alabama McCollough fro being a high-stat group, does not place as well as far as % to top med schools as the ivy+ undergrads place.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if a college was offering me free undergrad plus a $4k stipend every year, I'd at least go look. If you know you're headed to medical school, I'd save every dollar I could on undergrad.

But you aren’t giving up a thing.
The school is great and has the most NMFs in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:The city of Tuscaloosa is pretty much an even distribution of Black and White residents.

The state of Alabama is 63% white. The student body reflects the state’s population.

University of Alabama is 60% out of state.

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Anonymous wrote:100% of what? 100% of NMF kids to UA medical school? 100% of premed kids to "any" medical school?? 100% of NMF kids to any medical school?? You need to know. We passed on UA w/ 3 of my NMF/NMS kids.

Alabama places 100% of kids in McCollough, a pre-med program kids apply to as freshman. They also have really good placements (although getting in to any med school is very hard now).

Anonymous wrote:I mean, if a college was offering me free undergrad plus a $4k stipend every year, I'd at least go look. If you know you're headed to medical school, I'd save every dollar I could on undergrad.

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Anonymous wrote:The city of Tuscaloosa is pretty much an even distribution of Black and White residents.

The state of Alabama is 63% white. The student body reflects the state’s population.

Anonymous wrote:If your kid feels comfortable there and wants that undergrad experience then go for it

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Anonymous wrote:That's for a particular pre-med program; you'd need to look into it.

https://news.ua.edu/2023/09/ua-pre-med-students-achieve-100-med-school-acceptance/

Likely not top-tier med school admissions, or they'd say. Write and ask for the data.

My NMF pre-med kid wanted an SLAC for undergrad, so didn't consider UA. It's a big, ra ra football school with a very small cohort of top students. You should visit and see how your kid feels about it.

I don't see any non-white kids in the pre-med cohort picture

My niece is Indian (dark), was pre-med at Alabama (loved it!). She is now at Emory for med school.

Anonymous wrote:100% of what? 100% of NMF kids to UA medical school? 100% of premed kids to "any" medical school?? 100% of NMF kids to any medical school?? You need to know. We passed on UA w/ 3 of my NMF/NMS kids.

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Anonymous wrote:My child is a National Merit Semifinalist from TJ and we get emails from the school inviting to apply for free. For NMF they provide great package - 100% free + 4000/year for 5 years. They also say 100% med school admission. Is there a reason not to consider UA? Do UA pre-med students end up in Med schools like Harvard or Columbia or UVA some place good?

They do not have 100% admissions success. They have 100% success for a very small (24) group of kids that they allow into a select "institute" and not all of them actually go on to medical school. That 100% success is for graduate school.

Anonymous wrote:If you want to go to med school, you can be at any undergrad you want. It really doesn't matter. If you have specific future interests in mind, then look for a school that supports that. Choose undergrad based on fit for that undergrad.

OP - you didn't say what race you are. If you are white, then 70%+ white school will be fine. If you are Asian, especially coming from TJ, then it may be culture shock for your kid - see if they are ok with that. Remember undergrad is not just for feeding into med school. I hope my DC meets a great friend group of like minded people and is exposed to new and interesting things and has dating options. For that, a larger pool of intellectual types would be a priority and Alabama may not offer that. Every school has happy kids and unhappy kids.

Anonymous wrote:My child is a National Merit Semifinalist from TJ and we get emails from the school inviting to apply for free. For NMF they provide great package - 100% free + 4000/year for 5 years. They also say 100% med school admission. Is there a reason not to consider UA? Do UA pre-med students end up in Med schools like Harvard or Columbia or UVA some place good?

Anonymous wrote:OP, your kid must apply to the McCollough Scholars program. Here are the requirements. https://mccolloughscholars.ua.edu/apply/. Only the few scholars in the program received the 100% admissions, not all
u of Alabama pre med types.