<p>My son was accepted to Princeton, UPenn M&T Program and Brown PLME. It is very hard to drop any of them. He has the intention to take medicine as his career but he also wants to go to Priceton for the undergradute. He doesn't knwo how challege it is to go through pre-med at Princeton. He is good at all topics in academic but he is not as mature as other kids in his age. Advice needed. In advance, thank.</p>
<p>Wow, what great choices. He can’t make a bad decision. The BEST thing he can do is to take a week off from school, visit all 3 and sit in on as many classes as he can in each of these school’s majors/programs. Once accepted, the schools will do everything possible for him to be able to do this if he just calls them. Penn is only an hour from Princeton and Brown about 3 or 4 hours from there, depending on traffic or train schedules. If a visit is not possible, then at least call the schools and arrange for them to have kids in their programs contact him via telephone or email, as well as going on each school’s thread here and asking fro info/advice. Remember, once acceptances are out, the tables a turned a bit and the schools want to impress the students! Lots of luck - it doesn’t sound like he can make a poor choice!</p>
<p>He visited all those three schools during last few weeks and decided to go to Princeton. He thinks Princeton will give him more options. We would like him to pick Brown PLME but he would rather take a more challenge path to see what medical school he can get in later. He said he would not deserve to go to mechical school he he doesn’t work hard. It is the right thing to say but I don’t know if he will do that. But that is his choice.</p>
<p>He is also accepted to MIT but somehow he likes Princeton better, maybe becasue of the campus.</p>
<p>Brown had an incredibly low admittance rate this year, like 5%. So it is quite something to make it in. Even more so for PLME.</p>
<p>Has your son checked into distribution requirements at Princeton, or the theses required of all students in jr. and sr. year?</p>
<p>Brown, on the other hand, does not have any distribution requirements. And no these required of everyone.</p>
<p>This makes for a big difference in the undergrad experience. Some prefer one, some prefer the other.</p>
<p>My son graduated from Brown last year. He can’t speak highly enough of his experience.</p>
<p>The PLME program is excellent, and for some it would be an advantage to be in the same place for med school. Others might want a change.</p>
<p>It’s hard for me to even try to be neutral given my son’s very positive experience at Brown, but I have given it a try!</p>
<p>My D also faced a similar choice this year. Her three top options were Princeton, Brown (not PLME) and Penn LSM. All have their own advantages, but she came to a decision fairly quickly after intense research on all. LSM is a fantastic program and it was an honor for her to be admitted, but in the end she was just not convinced about the business side. She is more interested in scientific research and the Wharton courses would limit her options to dabble and explore other areas during undergrad. Brown was harder to say no to as she had loved the feel of the place and people are happy there. But after she started looking deeply into Princeton, which she had known the least about, she came to the conclusion that it offered the best combination of academic rigor/resources and social/extracurricular life. And of course, many students and alums have raved to her about their experience there (I’m sure would be true of those from the other schools, as well). As a possible premed, she is not concerned by all the talk of grade deflation that some warn makes Princeton harder for grad schools. She sees it as an indication, along with the senior thesis, of their serious focus on academic preparation and they seem to have great grad school results. Unfortunately, we live abroad and she was not able to go to any admitted student previews this month. Has your son visited each since being admitted?</p>
<p>He has visited MIT, Princeton and UPenn M&T for the admitted student previews this month. He had the same feeling as your daugher. He thought all those talk about Princeton for the grade deflation can be the challenge to make him better. He will use that to test himself to make sure he get through for future medical school. I like his confidence but I think he may also not realize the competition at college is much harder than high school. I will remind him that so he can keep focus.
He has picked Princeton as his top choice during the summer visit. He likes the campus and like the location. During the preview, he likes the school even more for their dorm and their eating club. He think the school in big city will have too much distraction.</p>
<p>Oakridge: Best of luck to your son. My only advice as the parent of a senior at Princeton is to make sure he focuses on his senior thesis early. The junior papers required in preparation for the thesis aren’t too bad, but the timing of the senior thesis makes finding the time to apply to med school, jobs, grad school etc. a lot more difficult than in schools where no thesis is required. He will love it - we are so sad to be saying good-bye!</p>