<p>I'm 80% sure I want to go to Med school, but I also want to keep my options open. That's why a 8 year program would be helpful but not essential. I'm looking for a challenging but not super GPA-slaughteringly painful school with nice, diverse and open people.</p>
<p>I'm looking at University of Rochester, Northwestern, Brown at the moment. How are all three in terms of generosity with Financial Aid? They're all roughly same cost I think. I read Northwestern is a really conservative school with kids are not as friendly and are bunched in their own exclusive groups, while Brown is really liberal, and seems like the most fun school ever. Although even if I apply early decision to Brown my chances are probably <30%. the other 2 are easier to get in correct?</p>
<p>I'm not sure about U of Michigan or North Carolina Chapel Hill, b/c i live in NY state so these 2 are prob going to cost me almost full 50k. </p>
<p>Any suggestions would be very helpful.. so many essays to write..</p>
<p>What ever is cheapest. Seriously. I really can’t stress enough how vastly overrated college rankings are. You really can’t go wrong at any of those schools. It makes no sense at all to bog yourself down with tons and tons of debt that will take decades to pay off. What if you don’t get into med school? Then what? You’ll be left up the creek without a paddle and swimming in NON DISCHARGABLE debt that is increasingly becoming much more difficult to pay off as a middle class citizen of the United States as we are mired for at least the forseeable decade in a terrible recession, we will continue to hemorrhage jobs overseas, and middle class incomes have declined over the past 30 years (even after adjusting for inflation) while college costs continue to vastly out pace the rate of inflation. </p>
<p>It’s a rigged system and game, don’t fall into the trap. Don’t buy into the “education at any cost” myth. It’s the poison that the student loan industry has infected the general public with that does nothing more than generate huge profits for them while leaving the middle class broke and jobless or underemployed. Nobody even cares where you went to undergrad anyway once you’ve been working for 5 years. All they care about is your work history on your resume. Why bog yourself down with 30 years of debt for an education that doesn’t matter after that short amount of time?</p>
<p>oh I am also interested in Mcgill and U of Toronto. They’re fairly cheap and I feel like I have a decent chance of getting in. Thing is I’m interested in going to am American Med school. How are med school placements for Mcgill and U of Toronto?</p>
<p>McGill and U Toronto are fantastic universities that are probably in the top 20 or 30 in the world. If they are cheap, then by all means attend. Canadian students take the MCAT as well as pretty much all of the same curriculum an American student would. I’m at Hopkins now, and we have a Canadian kid from U Toronto in the 1st year med student class.</p>