UConn vs Fairfield if future is Med School

College Search & Selection
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I have questions-My daughter get in to UCONN and Fairfield University ,after undergrad she want to apply to UCONN MEDICAL SCHOOL and we dont know where she sholuld go. What you think ,if she go to Uconn undergrad she will better chance to get in Uconn med school? she got from Fairfield Merit and another schoolarship-total 42000, fron Uconn 7000$-she is third in her highy school(whole high school A, community hours etc) Please any advice -I have just one kid so his is new for me thank you

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What is the bottom line price after the scholarships? If Med School is in the future you want undergrad costs to be low

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If they are similar in costs consider if she is more comfortable in one environment as compared to the other. While both in CT the two schools are different in terms of size, religious affiliation, location, (I imagine) the size of core curriculum (Jesuit colleges typically have large core curriculums) etc.

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What you think ,if she go to Uconn undergrad she will better chance to get in Uconn med school?
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Not likely. Is she a Conn resident? If so, the med school will give a preference to instate residents.

What is the net costs for each school?

BTW…never focus on getting into one particular med school. When the time comes, your child will be applying to 10-25+ med schools and HOPE that she gets into at least one. Med school admissions are crazy-competitive with med schools only interviewing about 10% of their applicants and only accepting about 1 out of 3 that they interview.

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Fairfield is a Jesuit university, so it should be very good for a premed. They do have a dedicated Committee so the school is invested in having successful applicants.

Being an applicant from a Jesuit univ could mean a slight boost for the 4 Jesuit med schools…SLU, Creighton, Loyola-Chicago, and Georgetown.

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Fairfield is much smaller as well; smaller class sizes and more individualized attention might help with your GPA.

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Won’t make a difference in terms of medical school admissions. Medical schools care about grades/MCAT/Extracurriculars. You should focus on fit and cost when picking undergrad.

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What @WildestDream said.

Unless there is a strong desire to attend one over the other because of a particular fit or other reason go for lowest cost.

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When you tally (tuition, fees, room, board)-(grants, scholarships) does each cost?
Has she applied anywhere else?

There’ll be no advantage to attending UConn undergraduate for med school admissions.

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Beware the Health Committee that is evaluative instead of neutral.

A college can make its med school admit rate anything it wants it to be by simply refusing to recommend the students below the cutoff that gets them that desired rate. Before your D chooses Fairfield she ought to call them and ask just what “Fairfield’s standards” are.

I would be worried that they are using this tactic, and heavily.

You need to turn away an awful lot of good students to get a 100% admit rate.

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12 students a year means a student needs to be ranked very highly indeed.
And that should be compared to UConn’s system, which may well be the same.

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thank you very much everyone for answering my questions. I dont know how functioning school system in this countr,I was born in Poland and we moved here 12 years ago like also I have one kid , we live in CT- also I’m not speak and write perfect english so I’m so sorry for my grammar mistake. She apply to 8 colleges ,for six she is accepted for Yale and Wesleyan University we waiting for letter. Financial side look like if she will go to Fairfield we have to pay 20000$ per year, if she go to Uconn cost per year will be 7000$. She was whole summer at hospital like volunteer.Since 10 grades she taking Uconn early college experience, so when she finish this year high school already she will have 40 credits from Uconn.

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Obviously Yale or Wesleyan would be better than either one, and likely cheaper since they have very generous financial aid.
Try to figure out how many seniors are pre-med at Fairfield - 12 allowed to apply, that’s really not very many.
And figure out how UConn does committees letters (average number : number of pre-med seniors, number of freshmen who start as pre-med …)
Typically, 75% or so HS seniors who think they’ll be pre-med don’t end up pre-meds.
What major is your daughter interested in? (Pre-meds should major in whatever they’re the strongest and take the pre-med pre-reqs in addition to that )

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It sounds like she likes UConn and does well there. Considering the cost you listed in Post 11, that would get my vote assuming it’s also ok with her.

Has she talked with the Pre-Med (or Pre-Health or whatever they call it) advisers there yet?

I agree with those who suggested being wary of Fairfield’s 100% acceptance rate. That literally means they are turning away any candidate who only “might” have a chance. That’s a lot of students. I’d rather my student go to a place that will support them with any reasonable chance rather than needing such high stats that they are practically guaranteed to get a slot.

Also note, that 100% could include Caribbean schools. Many schools include them in their stats, but Caribbean med schools are not everyone’s desire and take pretty much everyone. I have not looked at Fairfield’s stats myself - just a generic beware from what I’ve come across.