<p>Congrats to Entomom’s DD!</p>
<p>I must say that those of us who’ve followed this CC premed forum from the time when the student is early in the premed process have had a very high success rate (maybe 100%?) of getting into at least 1 med school.</p>
<p>^Frankly, I do not see any correlation. I followed while D. has been working hard…and yahooo, continue so in Med. School. Just got her Step 1 score, she did well. She had a funny comment right after she took a test, it got stuck in my head. She said “I did not know answer to some questions”…I will never forget this comment in combination with her result…and she also said that she took all time, did not get up earlier, it was scary to hear after I heard from others that their kids did not think that 8 hrs exam was a big deal…looks like it is a big deal, a very big deal, but working hard has always paid off so far.</p>
<p>krug - If you want to share the blame with a bunch of parents and some wise beyond their years non-parents, we are here. We can always tell you what to do if you want to give us a general outline of the schools, finances and the constraints. </p>
<p>This is assuming you can’t send Curm’s nanny to visit your daughter.</p>
<p>Our deal with our D is that we have X amount for med school, anything above, it’s on you. She is thinking of going into GP-geriatrics, she has a soft spot for us old people (for her it’s all of us above 50), so she will take awhile to pay off any debt. On top of cost, she wants to serve an urban population. The only problem is the school that has both of these traits did not do a good job with the tour and the interviewer basically told all the candidates how lucky they would be to be offered a seat in the incoming class (of course, we all know that but it’s not nice to rub it in). </p>
<p>We could use Curm’s nanny but since that cannot be, may be we will draw sticks or throw darts. Seriously, I think a school should not be judge by 2 people that the applicant had contact with (tour guide and interviewer). We all heard of stories of undergrad schools that was taken off the list because it was raining during the tour or the admission person had spinach in his teeth…</p>
<p>It is really a mistake to make decisions based on who you met at a school, good or bad. I would feel good that the interviewer has such a high opinion of the school though as opposed to taking the opposite view since they seem to take pride in the school. </p>
<p>If they are unranked and said this you know it is an inflated opinion of themselves.</p>
<p>Frankly, I do not see any correlation</p>
<p>Miami, </p>
<p>Not sure what you’re saying there.</p>
<p>I was just noting that it seems (to me) that the parents and/or students who followed this forum throughout the premed years (or before!) seem to have had very good success with the med school app process. I’m guessing that’s because this forum clears up misconceptions, advises against common missteps, etc.</p>
<p>This is assuming you can’t send Curm’s nanny to visit your daughter.</p>
<p>lol…who is Curmy’s nanny? I must have missed something after following many, many years of his entertaining posts. </p>
<p>wait, do you mean a “nanny goat”? lol</p>
<p>*will draw sticks or throw darts. *</p>
<p>Maybe we can do a poll to help you out. :)</p>
<p>M2CK - check out Curm’s last post - 719. :p</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>ah, thanks! I never realized that Curmette had any babysitters other than livestock. ;)</p>
<p>Yup. We were suburbanites till 1994. ;)</p>
<p>Krug, can any of us parents help? How much is the $$ difference per year? Those loans add up fast especially since the interest starts accruing as soon as your pen leaves the paper!</p>
<p>And I too wouldn’t place much emphasis on 2 people. Leaving off those two how did it compare otherwise?</p>
<p>If I could have placed a wager on where Curm’s daughter would of ended up for med school, son would not be sweating those med school loans!!!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Curm - I was not around when Ellie Mae was having a difficult time choosing. Which school did she give up?</p>
<p>D selected NYU thanks for all the input</p>
<p>^ congrats for your D.</p>
<p>The last four standing were UVa, Dartmouth, UTSW, and Yale. And then it was just UTSW and Yale. Both excellent but different. And yeah. There was a little history remaining from UG choices.</p>
<p>NYUmom…</p>
<p>Congrats to your D!</p>
<p>nyumom; Congrats!</p>
<p>I think finances will win out for us given there is no strong preferences on either schools. The difference in price tag is about $80-90K over 4 years. We think that we will be able to pay for all 4 years at the lesser school and the overage will be loans. BTW, 6.8% is outrageous given what interest rate is these days.</p>
<p>Krug - that does not sound like a lot of debt for a doctor but no debt is no debt. </p>
<p>I have advised people in the past to take a home equity line and lend it to the kid instead of borrowing at these rates but it depends on the parent child comfort level.</p>
<p>If you have made the decision, congrats.</p>
<p>Nyumom - congrats to your daughter.</p>
<p>krug, sounds like you haven’t decided yet, I’m not sure I understand, given the date…</p>
<p>Possibly a waitlist offer. Since it’s still relatively early in the post-May 15 season, applicants may get as much as 2 weeks to decide to accept a waitlist offer.</p>
<p>The window for decisions get smaller as the start of classes draw nearer.</p>
<p>For example from the webpage of the state SOM
(NOTE: classes start July 14th at this school)</p>
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<p>For schools with a later start of classes (Aug/Sept), I’d imagine that the applicants will still be getting offered the 2 weeks decision window.</p>