<p>The money in my education funds has been cut in half with $60K left.
There is going to have no money left for medical school if I go to Cornell (~$30K/year).
I got accepted by a good state school with a full ride. Should I go to the State school and leave the money in the funds so I can graduate from medical school debt free?</p>
<p>Did you apply for aid? Cornell has generous financial aid in comparison to the vast majority of state schools.</p>
<p>My EFC is around $30K.</p>
<p>Do you think you can do extremely well at the state school? In other words, do you think you can get a higher GPA at the state school than at Cornell?</p>
<p>Also, you can always negotiate with the Financial Aid office.</p>
<p>I understand your dilemma. It's hard to turn down a freebie. By the way, is that state school University of Illinois Urbana Champaign?</p>
<p>If it's a superb state school, I would attend the state school - the less competitive atmosphere would give you an edge in your application to med school as your GPA and your rank would be higher.</p>
<p>60K isn't going to pay for med school.</p>
<p>But it is better than -60k</p>
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<p>It won't even pay for 1 year at most private medical schools</p>
<p>Yea it's a tough call.... what happens if you go to Cornell for 2 years and use up the 60K...will your EFC drop? And what happens if you decide that you don't want to go to med school anymore and want to switch majors...well then you would be much better off at Cornell... not to mention that you have a much better chance at getting into med school from Cornell if you can maintain a decent GPA.</p>
<p>go state school, gpa should be much easier to get which is a ++++ for med school</p>
<p>Imagine what med school will cost in four years!</p>
<p>How much in loans would Cornell cost you? How sure are you that you want to go to med school?</p>
<p>I knew some people who wanted to go to med school at Cornell. They soon became fiction writers, and I think Cornell was a better place to make that switch.</p>
<p>So hard... I hate it when decisions would have to come down to money. I guess ultimately it depends on where you feel you will be most comfortable spending the next 4 years and how much of an issue money is... I would rather go to Cornell if you absolutely HATE your state school.</p>
<p>by the looks of the financial situation in the world right now, things are only going to get worse. cornell may be your dream school but you have to decide if its worth years and years of significant debt.</p>
<p>the state school…you could always transfer to cornell if you hate it…</p>
<p>the state school. </p>
<p>last year, I had to make the same decision, choosing either the honors program at rutgers with significant scholarship or nyu, which had been my dream school since I was seven and costs 53k a year. my parents can’t afford private school so I chose rutgers, and I don’t regret it one bit. people always ask me, why rutgers? and I find myself asking that same question to my friends who go to nyu and are swimming around in debt at the moment and will be for years and years. </p>
<p>the decision at first sucks, because there’s always going to be that feeling that you can do better than a state school, but you’re just going to have to let that go, and surprise yourself by enjoying it. </p>
<p>That’s what happened to me. Best of luck.</p>
<p>$120,000 for four years is too much to pay for any college. If you like your state school then you are better off going there and saving that money for your future.</p>
<p>the best solution would be to invest the money, 10 times it, and go to cornell and graduate school… jk</p>
<p>I have 2 questions about your situation:</p>
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<li><p>Were you accepted by Cornell Early Decision, because how would you know about acceptance?</p></li>
<li><p>Wouldn’t you have to attend Cornell assuming you applied Early Decision and were accepted?</p></li>
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<p>^not if you cannot afford it. You cannot bail on Cornell ED to go to HYP, but if you are going to a state school, they probably won’t even raise an eyebrow, especially in this economy.</p>