Hello! So I am a high school senior looking to decide on a school by May 1 (last minute, I know, I didn’t think it would come down to this) and I have narrowed it down to Baylor University and the University of Southern California.
I am planning on becoming an Anthropology major (Pre-Med track) with a possible minor in music composition.
I enrolled in Baylor about two weeks ago, but am now feeling silly for rejecting such a top-tier school. Yet, I do know Baylor has a pretty good Pre-Med program.
I was lucky enough to recieve a merit scholarship from Baylor, which would bring the total cost to half of USC’s.
So, the question is: are USC’s science programs and prestige (and the atmosphere and overall living, of course), worth twice as much as Baylor’s?
Any help is appreciated, I am going nuts.
My D is graduating from USC in a few weeks and thrived there. She is off to med school in the fall. However, I have little doubt she could have attained all that she has at a variety of schools- not just USC. She went there for the merit $$ and special program.
I’d pick Baylor at half the cost and save all that $$ for med school. Baylor is perfectly able to prepare a pre med-- what you decide to do with all these opportunities will determine whether you get in to med school in 4+ years from now.
Btw- it is natural to have doubts about big decisions. Start planning all the amazing things you are going to do at Baylor and these feelings will recede.
I don’t really know anything about those two schools. Since you’re posting this here instead of http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/baylor-university/ or http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/ I’ll give you the best advice I can which is that Brown is the best place to be a pre med: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/1284648-brown-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-pre-med-p1.html
Hey, I’m going to Baylor for pre-med!! 
@grrtt1
If you want a Christian experience to part of your education, pick Baylor!! USC pretty much is everybody out for themselves for what I can see living in Southern California all of my life. Their nickname fair or not is the University of Spoiled Children.