We narrowed our college list down to RPI/AMC vs UG Vandy (no merit aid) vs Emory (15K merit) vs Instate (free tuition). We heard RPI/AMC decision few days ago and don’t have financial aid information from RPI. We don’t qualify for need based aid.
Looking for insights into RPI/AMC program as my DD wants to consider that over other options.
RPI: How hard is to maintain required GPA (3.5) and other requirements to stay in the program? Students drop out of the program due to the requirements? How is campus and student life?
AMC: How good is the school (as they don’t seem to participate in the rankings)? Also heard very expensive?
We didn’t get a chance to make any campus visits and may not be able to visit before commitment date due to COVID (as we are from west coast). Would appreciate your thoughts/suggestions/alternate view points.
Oregon. Although my DD did excellent in high school (with lot of APs), I believe Oregon school standards are much lower compared to other states. So concerned about maintaining requirements to stay in the program.
There is a simple answer. Are you a risk averse person or some one who likes to take risk ? If you are a risk averse person, take REMS, other wise it is a regular UG for a risk taker.
RPI is mainly an engineering school with a very few females in campus and there is not much do in the campus. Ask your D, how she will feel in a school filled with a engineer/scientist minded males.
PTE (Plan To Enroll) is 04/30 - You need to pick a school but can stay on waitlists
CTE (Commit To Enroll) varies by school. CTE means you are committing to a school and withdrawing from all WLs.
DS has 4 WLs but not interested in any of them. AAMC also recommends narrowing to 3 schools if you have more than 3, S already did that.
Some schools may give one until end of June to commit to enroll. But you have to put that school as “plan-to-enroll” list. So only thing folks are waiting is movement in waitlist after April 30, 2021. This is not applicable to your S.
with my limited info/experience, it seems that up to t-15 for pre-med might not be that desirable due to grade deflation and will require lot of work on part of the students to maintain GPA and then get great MCAT score.
maybe t-20 to t-30 might be more desirable to get good GPA, focus on MCAT with good research/shadowing/volunteering experience during pre-med years.
