<p>^one example, another is my D. She did not turn down Yale, Stanford or Princeton, she just never applied. She could have not been accepted, how we will know now? She applied only to schools that she was interested attending. Everybody’s criteria is different from others, there are no general rules even for kids with very similar HS backgrounds. I know many examples, good number of them are kids with at least one MD parent, who have access to free Med. School. The reason I know them is because many of my D’s HS classmates had MD parents. D. said that she was surprised to know how many of them went to local Med. School. It was no surprise to me - free Med. School is free Med. School, it is much harder to pass than Harvard acceptance. BTW, good number of them also went to local UG, why not? They had Merit awards to cover full tuition or close to it.</p>
<p>Again, it is not for everybody. We are in free country, choose what you want.</p>