<p>Tulane or some big name schools like Duke? Creative premedical scholars program?
Hi, CC Parents,
This is a thread I posted on the Tulane part of CC, and a member suggested me to post here.
I've gotten some very valuable suggestions from helpful people from the forum on the other thread. Let's see what the more experienced parents say about this!</p>
<p>I'm an international student and I've been accepted to Tulane, Miami, VA Tech, GA Tech, UIUC, purdue, waiting for Duke, Rice, Cornell, UVA, Carleton.</p>
<p>I never thought about wanting to go to Tulane instead of the more well-known schools like Duke and Ivies, but after some research, the college decision has become more complicated.</p>
<p>I personally want to go to medical school, but as an international without a green card, it's really hard to get in Med School anywhere, so my intended majors are all engineering, which I'm good at and can get me a job easily. But After looking into Tulane's Creative Premedical Scholar's program, and exchanging 15 emails with the advisor at Tulane, I figured out that International students are eligible for the program. And if I do get in the program after sophomore year, I'll have a guaranteed admission to Tulane medical. This makes the chance of me getting into med school go from under 1% to over 50%.</p>
<p>The only thing is I don't know whether I'll regret going to Tulane if I don't get into this program. If I choose Tulane over Duke, will I regret? Is the academics and reputation of Tulane at the undergrad level far from Duke? I know ranking doesn't say much and the current ranking of Tulane is effected by the data of Katrina years, but what exactly is Tulane at compared to Duke and Ivies?</p>
<p>Can anyone give me some advice and suggestions? If anybody knows more about the creative premedical scholars program, and maybe the chances of getting in, please help me with it too! I really appreciate this! Thanks in advance!</p>