<p>Hey guys,
I was waitlisted at 5 schools: Uchicago, carnegie, emory, tufts, and umich</p>
<p>accepted to NYU (no money), stony brook (ful ride), and umaryland- collegepark), upitt, rutgers, binghamton. (NYU and stony brook ) are my top choices as of now</p>
<p>want to do premed and majoring in math.</p>
<p>Questions:
Is a loan of 64k+ worth it for NYU?</p>
<p>Which school from the ones i was accepted into would be great for math + premed?</p>
<p>5 waitlists what are my chances? how can i improve them? im truly disappointed. I thought i would at least get into mich or tufts but even that didnt work out for me. </p>
<p>i honestly do not know what to do. has anyone else been in this situation that can help me? or just anyone have any advice? </p>
<p>Stats were: 2280 (800 math 780 critical reading 700 writing) and 3.67 Gpa not like it matter anymore</p>
<p><a href=“NYU%20and%20stony%20brook”>QUOTE=onmyway2ivy</a> are my top choices as of now
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<p>Now that’s the $64,000 question…</p>
<p>Multiply NYU’s $64,000 cost of attendance by 4 and you get $256,000.</p>
<p>Four years of medical school is expensive. See <a href=“https://services.aamc.org/tsfreports/[/url]”>https://services.aamc.org/tsfreports/</a> for tuition and fees, then add living expenses. Remember that most pre-meds are lucky to get into one medical school, so they often have no opportunity to choose a less expensive medical school among several choices, like you do now for undergraduate study.</p>
<p>If you take $256,000 of debt to attend NYU (of course, actually being able to borrow that much is generally not possible – who in his/her right mind would co-sign such a loan?), then you will likely be in over half a million dollars of debt by the end of medical school (and you won’t be able to start paying much of it off until after several years of residency).</p>
<p>If you do have the $256,000 available now, better to save it for medical school so that you will have relatively small debt coming out of medical school, which will be less restrictive on your choice of specialty and other career matters (i.e. you won’t be forced to look for the highest paying specialty or job in favor of a lower paying one that you prefer to do).</p>