mcgill vs urochester vs notre dame vs rpi

College Search & Selection
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<p>Im deciding between these schools. I will probably major in physics and I want to go to med school. I wouldn't mind going to any of these schools but I have a hard time making these type of decisions so any advice is appreciated.</p>

<p>RPI: I live close by, they offered me $30,000 a year in aid, located in a stinkhole, nerds galore, not the best academics</p>

<p>Mcgill: huge student body which could be bad, good social scene, probly cost <$40,000, don't know any french</p>

<p>URoch: good advising/teaching or so i've heard, would cost about $40,000, not very well known</p>

<p>ND: relatively conservative (which I am), lot's of pre med students, very well known, good school spirit, in the middle of the mid west :(</p>

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<p>mcgill is an english university… not knowing french is not significant… also, most in montreal speak english as well.</p>

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<p>Ya thats true, I guess its just weird when people talk to each other in french and I can’t understand what they’re saying, but its not something that would prevent me from going there, i shouldn’t have said that</p>

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<p>Nd!!!</p>

<p>:) :slight_smile: :)</p>

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<p>Academically speaking, Mcgill is the best… but I think the overall atmosphere at ND would suit you well.</p>

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<p>what makes you say academics at mcgill are the best?</p>

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<p>What makes you say the academics at RPI aren’t good?</p>

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<p>Academics at RPI are very good, especially for physics.</p>

<p>How would your costs at ND compare to the other schools?</p>

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<p>mom2, can you elaborate? :)</p>

<p>OP, you did not cite a $cost for ND. also did not mention what the final cost wd be for RPI (wd it be around 45-30-20 ish)?</p>

<p>Since u want to eventually go to med school, is there some sort of stat at each school that gives med school placement rate ?</p>

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<p>rpi would cost about $25000, ND would cost about $40,000 (and I would also have to pay for plane tickets to and from) </p>

<p>I know ND places people into med school very well but I have heard that its not so good to look at the rates since schools can skew their data.</p>

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<p>“since schools can skew their data.”</p>

<p>hmmm, can’t rely on the school’s claims for us info hounds? It couldn’t be THAT easy ,could it?</p>

<p>I actually just got a sense of this when I read in a book recently called 75 myths of college admissions or something like this, in which it was said that colleges (regularly?) [fudge/misprepersent/skew] their numbers. I was astounded.</p>

<p>So I have asked in various threads here, but I will post as a separate thread eventuially,</p>

<p>to what extent does this skewing misrepresenting and fudging of data go on, both the incoming admissions data as well as post college data?</p>

<p>A related question I had was: is there some sort of FDA for colleges that monitor the claims by these $200,000 corporation uber-products in which there is such consumer demand? What stops, in other words, a college from making any claim it wanted - other than ethics? They certainly have the motivation and the means.</p>

<p>Is there an internal monitoring association that licenses colleges? Not as a good as a real third party outside the family…</p>