Yale. Prestige will matter when student applies to medical school.

Full ride at BU is nothing to sneeze at. Is it a true full ride, though?

Your undergraduate school matters not one iota when it comes to a career in medicine. BU, without question.

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Anonymous wrote:I came across this website that claims that 75% of the med school admits in top med schools came from one of the 20 schools listed here. Similar info for phD, MBA and law programs.

FWIW..

Here's the link. Didn't post last time - https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/category/infographics/

Not surprised since admission to the most selective schools needs high GPA and SAT scores. It's the student not the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding ? BU! Have you looked at now expensive med school is ?

+1 four years of undergrad four years of med school three to four years of residency maybe one year of fellowship you seriously don't want to start off 250k in debt. As for those people saying he may change his mind about med school we don't know. OP knows her son, but starting off in debt after undergraduate is a recipe for disaster and BU is not a bad school no matter how magical Yale may be, and I say this as an Ivy League graduate.

All I know is the Harvard doctor got into the same competitive residency as the doctor from state school, a brand name undergrad gives you only a very slight edge up for med school.

If DC wants to be a community physician, there is no competitive advantage in going to a better college. But, if DC is interested in more than practice then college matters a lot. It's the same as law school. If all you want to do is be a lawyer, you can go anywhere and get into Suffolk Law and pass the bar. But, if you want to be a legal scholar, appellate judge, etc. going to an elite law school and an elite college matter a lot.

That's bs. In my DH dermatology class out of the whole group of over ten residents only two were from ivy leagues. Med school is seriously all about grades and MCATS, it's very different from law school.

Law school is ALL about grades and the LSAT.

Sure. But the PP has a point about if you want to be a Supreme Court Justice you probably have to go to a top law school. But mind you, top law school, not undergrad. For medicine its a little different, to get into a competitive residency you need to have top medical school grades, and research experience, or maybe done a rotation with an subject expert showing your interest. Its not so much "oh I went to Yale undergrad". Noone cares if the undergrad school is good enough.

Anonymous wrote:Decision needs to be made very, very soon. Studying biochemistry or chemistry on a premed track. Looking for any input to see if there's anything we might have considered.

I would do anything within reasonable limits to allow my child to go to Yale, as you cannot compare these two institutions. Clearly your child is capable of the work level at Yale and being interested in going to the medical profession there's no question that you will catapult him or her onto a fantastic medical school as long as they do well undergrad - good luck!

OP, not sure if anyone has said this, but in my experience it can't hurt to approach Yale and ask them for some merit aid. My parents did that a billion years ago when I was choosing between Penn and a bunch of slightly lower tier schools (Tufts was one, amazingly I can't remember the rest!) Penn upped my package (combination of FA and merit) in response to the others. I received additional merit scholarships in subsequent years.

Obviously much has changed since then, and a full ride merit package isn't FA. But Yale has money to burn, and perhaps they could find $15k, the equivalent of the coins in the couch w/their endowment, to make this a less fraught choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't go to BU over Yale. It will be regretted every. Single. Day. Find a way to pay.

Ha, um no. I turned down Yale over a state school and have never regretted it.

Me too. I went to a small, lesser known Liberal arts college (Grinnell) over the Ivy League schools I was admitted to due to finances and not a day goes by I am not glad I made the choice not to go into debt for an undergrad degree.

Anonymous wrote:Don't go to BU over Yale. It will be regretted every. Single. Day. Find a way to pay.

Ha, um no. I turned down Yale over a state school and have never regretted it.

Anonymous wrote:Don't go to BU over Yale. It will be regretted every. Single. Day. Find a way to pay.

The 4 people who I know fairly well who went to Yale, are less successful people professionally, socioeconomically, and emotionally than friends who went to UMD, W&M, and Va Tech. Fairly little has to do with the school, most of it is the person. Especially in undergrad. My BFF works in academia and the professors at top schools are mostly crap professors. They write successful papers because that's all the school cares about, but they don't give a lick about teaching and mostly their TAs do it. It's a total waste unless your kid is a consummate starf*cker and can really make the most of it.

Doctor here. BU. Without a question.

No question, BU.

Don't go to BU over Yale. It will be regretted every. Single. Day. Find a way to pay.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding ? BU! Have you looked at now expensive med school is ?

+1 four years of undergrad four years of med school three to four years of residency maybe one year of fellowship you seriously don't want to start off 250k in debt. As for those people saying he may change his mind about med school we don't know. OP knows her son, but starting off in debt after undergraduate is a recipe for disaster and BU is not a bad school no matter how magical Yale may be, and I say this as an Ivy League graduate.

All I know is the Harvard doctor got into the same competitive residency as the doctor from state school, a brand name undergrad gives you only a very slight edge up for med school.

If DC wants to be a community physician, there is no competitive advantage in going to a better college. But, if DC is interested in more than practice then college matters a lot. It's the same as law school. If all you want to do is be a lawyer, you can go anywhere and get into Suffolk Law and pass the bar. But, if you want to be a legal scholar, appellate judge, etc. going to an elite law school and an elite college matter a lot.

That's bs. In my DH dermatology class out of the whole group of over ten residents only two were from ivy leagues. Med school is seriously all about grades and MCATS, it's very different from law school.

Law school is ALL about grades and the LSAT.

Anonymous wrote:I came across this website that claims that 75% of the med school admits in top med schools came from one of the 20 schools listed here. Similar info for phD, MBA and law programs.

FWIW..

Here's the link. Didn't post last time - https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/category/infographics/