I am deciding between UCLA and OSU. I really really really love the campus and the atmosphere of UCLA and I’m not too fond of OSU. But, UCLA is roughly $35,000/year and OSU is roughly $13,917 (If i commute, it’ll probably be around $3,917). I plan on going into pre-med so that would mean more school. Would you rather go to an expensive school that you absolutely love or be debt free? I feel like I would regret not going to UCLA, but I would also regret the huge amount of money that I have to pay back
Best Law/Medical School Placement
bmcauliffebmcauliffe
Today at 7:15 pm edited 7:22PM in College Search & Selection
I did a 2018 study (still working on it) of placement from associates at the Top Vault Law Firms (includes Cravath, Wachtell, etc.) and Top Medical Residency Programs (includes UCSF/UCLA/Harvard/Duke Dermatology programs etc.) ranked by reputation according to Doximity (for more competive specialties I counted more programs and from less competitive specialties I counted less programs) and so far have a sample size of 2490 residents and associates (split evenly). So far, in terms of placement per capita, here are the top schools in terms of representation (minimum count of 13 to be included):
1 Harvard
2 Yale
3 Dartmouth
4 Duke
5 Princeton
6 U Pennsylvania
7 Georgetown
8 Brown
9 Columbia
10 Johns Hopkins
11 Stanford
12 Northwestern
13 Cornell
14 Tufts
15 U Notre Dame
16 Rice
17 U Chicago
18 WUSTL
19 Emory
20 Vanderbilt
21 Boston College
22 UC Berkerley
23 U Michigan
24 U Virginia
25 UNC - Chapel Hill
26 USC
27 George Washington U
PM me for the full table of data with numbers or info on a specific school.
*Again, only included those with the largest placement numbers (i.e. smaller schools with a lower count may have higher per capita represenation but were excluded; the sample size isn’t that large yet)
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rosered55rosered55
Today at 7:35 pm
Can you call it “best … placement” without knowing what every law school and medical school graduate wants from work and life?
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In a nutshell. Go to OSU. Save the money and get great grades and go UCLA for med school. Practice in Beverly Hills and live in Malibu on the beach. And tell everyone who asks that you went to OSU.
You’re far better off going to OSU and saving the debt for medical school. Going to UCLA and collecting that much debt could jeopardize your ability to to get the loans needed for med school.