<p>I got into the st johns honors program and got a full ride...</p>
<p>Would it be worth going to a private university.. say lehigh, nyu, etc for 40k a year+ </p>
<p>Has anyone heard anything about the st johns honors program?</p>
<p>I'm looking to go to medical school after college</p>
<p>Take the full ride. St. Johns is a well regarded school, and the honors program makes it all the better. </p>
<p>NYU and Lehigh are great schools too...but worth an extra $40k? I don't think so. Especially if you're looking to do any form of grad school, which is expensive.</p>
<p>agree with world changer</p>
<p>Do you think you'll get any aid from the privates you mentioned? Do you qualify for financial aid and/or do any of the privates you applied to give merit aid?</p>
<p>I'd say wait and see until you get all your financial aid packages. Some other school might give you a lot of money (though it's unlikely to be NYU).</p>
<p>For medical schools, there are only a handful of colleges (typically US News Top 20) that carry any prestige in the eyes of the adcom. If you ask me whether St. Johns or Lehigh is more prestigeous, I would have no idea and the typical admissions committee member wouldn't either. Med school interviews at top schools are chocked full of applicants from Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Stanford, etc. either because a) those are the only names adcom members recognize or b) those schools are filled with smart, driven students.</p>
<p>I do not qualify for any FA.. although I am not rich... so i doubt ill get money from any schools...
My grades are good but not enough to get merit aid.</p>
<p>So everyone thinks i should do the honors program at st johns for free?</p>
<p>St John's absolutely.</p>
<p>Do you like what you know about St. Johns? Does it provide the kinds of classes and other activities you like to do? </p>
<p>If the answers to those questions are yes, you have your answer.</p>
<p>If the answers are no, then you have to do some careful comparisons.</p>
<p>If you don't know, time for some visits and private discussions with professors and undergraduate program directors.</p>
<p>I don't know why you're agonizing over this decision. If you're serious about going to medical school and you're "not rich" I don't see how you can afford med or graduate school after taking on $40,000 a year expense for UG. If you were rich, or your parents had the funds on hand, it might be worth agonizing over, but you don't indicate that's the case. Med school is enormously expensive. </p>
<p>You applied to St. John's --- you must have known if you liked it enough to attend, no?</p>
<p>NYU gave you almost nothing? If Your Going for Business, NYU STERN Beats St. Johns By A Mile. If Not, I Am Not Sure. I would think a Stern Education Could be Worth About Paying 20k Out of Pocket But 40k is high even for Stern.</p>
<p>let me clarify a bit..</p>
<p>My family makes around 250K a year.. but my other brother is in college (private 40k a year)
My parents told me its my responsibility to pay for grad school if i go to a private college (which they would pay for) but if i go to a state school (or now this st johns thing) they would help me tremendously with med school payments.</p>
<p>St johns had on-site admissions at my school so I did that and wasn't expecting what I got.. but was pleasantly surprised when she told me I had full tuition + 8000 a year towards room and board at the honors program (which leaves me paying around 2k a year to st johns if i choose to live there), which is practically nothing compared to the 45k nyu costs..</p>
<p>My gpa is a 96w with 1450 sats but i dont think I will get merit aid and I dont qualify for FA..</p>
<p>I started a similar thread. Let me look for it.</p>
<p>The typical medical school budget (for a private med school) is approx. $65,000 per year. The average debt is approx. $160,000. Thus, you'll want to minimize your undergraduate debts.</p>
<p>Is this St. John's in Queens or St. John's Annapolis?</p>
<p>queens
10char</p>
<p>Okay, take this with a grain of salt because it's info from 20 years ago (for instance, there was no "honors college"), BUT...my bro graduated St John's with a 3.9 and did great on his Medcats. He applied to 29 medical schools (!) and was accepted to ONE (phew!) - btw, that was Penn State - Hershey and the family had some pull there as our g'father was on the Bd Of Dirs. My bro definitely felt that he would have had an easier time coming from more of a name school. And, fwiw he's now on the faculty at Yale, so there you go - you can come from anywhere and as long as you're bright and determined get anywhere.</p>
<p>Definitely investigate what St John's admissions rates are to med schools these days before making this decision!</p>
<p>You should go to NYU or Lehigh and pay. I seriously doubt it will cost you 40K per year after financial aid.</p>
<p>Nobody cares where you went to undergrad if you're going to a professional school after (MBA, Law School, Med School). Adcoms at med schools will certainly know that an Honors program at most colleges is the equivalent of top 20 regular program school.</p>
<p>Have you visited St. Johns Queens? My nephew was accepted there w/ a nice merit package too. From what I have read, it doesn't have so much of a traditional residential college feel though it is fairly highly regarded program wise. I would go for the bucks but not at the expense of your happiness.</p>
<p>Since Med school is expensive, take the full ride and save some cash!</p>