<p>D was accepted at Rice (no scholarships), Emory (15K/yr scholarship) and UT Deans Scholar Honors Program (2K/yr scholarship). She will likely major in Biology, and follow a pre-med track. Her plans are to go on for an MD or MD/PhD.</p>
<p>We don't qualify for any financial aid, so taking into account the National Merit scholarship, the net COA is ~47K (Rice), ~36K (Emory) and ~20K (UT-Austin). </p>
<p>Any thoughts on how these stack up for undergraduate education, given D's intention to go to medical school? Thanks for your input.</p>
<p>All three schools will prepare her well. Rice might be the most competitive (not in a good way) given the number of “gunners” that go to school there, followed by Emory and then UT. This isn’t an indictment on the education more a commentary on the types of students that go to the respective schools.</p>
<p>As bluedevilmike has repeatedly stated, racking up significant undergrad debt with med school on the horizon is not a good idea.</p>
<p>The REAL numbers (anticipating rising tuition and fees costs over four years) are:</p>
<p>Rice: > $200K</p>
<p>Emory:> $165</p>
<p>UT: < $90K</p>
<p>That’s a pretty big delta between UT and Rice.</p>
<p>Med school is VERY expensive (unless she ends up at a Texas school) so minimizing undergrad debt is a very wise idea.</p>
<p>My son is about to finish his second year at one of those Texas schools and has many UT grads and several Rice grads as classmates including two of his housemates (one from UT and one from Rice). He went to school on a full scholarship and graduated debt free. He recently commented that because he has no undergrad debt he is already $200-250K ahead of most of his classmates with two more years to go.</p>
<p>After just reading the details of the UT Dean’s Scholar program it sounds like a very good program and one that would be hard to justify paying the higher tuition costs to go elsewhere.</p>