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<p>I certainly won’t argue that one, because the Morehead is indeed held in the same regard as HYPS among Grad and Professional schools and even on Wall St. </p>
<p>I should have maybe been more clear in saying that two of the three friends that I mentioned were not Moreheads or Robertsons but had turned down schools like HYPS to accept significant merit money at UNC. </p>
<p>I guess my whole point was with the high cost of medical school, the very uncertain financial picture for future Physicians with all the talked about health care reform, and the extremely long time before a Physician sees any REAL money after racking up that huge debt, that coming out of undergrad debt free or nearly debt free doesn’t sound too bad right now. If mom and dad were going to help with undergrad their son would be far better served with their help for med school (and after) costs.</p>
<p>Since I don’t live in CO I am not familiar with their Med school admissions policies but here in Texas the top schools like UTSouthwestern are mandated by law to accept 90% in state students regardless of where they matriculated undergrad. This years entering class at UTSW had students from 65 undergrad institutions.</p>
<p>[Medical</a> School Entering Class Profile](<a href=“http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept21170/files/65445.html]Medical”>http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept21170/files/65445.html)</p>
<p>There’s such a huge bias on CC toward private schools and especially those of the HPYS ilk that it is often difficult for many to take a step back and truly grasp that you can get a great education and be very well prepared for med school at many places. I mean in reality the kids who went to H undergrad from my son’s class (at SM) had more exposure to TAs than he did at UNC and two friends from another local private school (GH) who both graduated from H are now at UT SA and Texas Tech med Schools which are certainly not Baylor or UTSW and helps to shoot down the pedigree theory a bit. </p>
<p>And for a slightly different perspective…the father of a dear friend of ours was a Department Chair at the Harvard Business School for many years and he often told us that among the faculty the lament was that it was a shame to waste Harvard/Cambridge on undergrads! That was the exact quote…:)</p>