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If you are pre-med, your best bet is to goto a smaller university where you will be a big fish in a small pond. It’s easier to standout and depending on the schools rep it should be easier to get a high GPA.
Paying private school money (OOS/ful-pay) tuition on a public school experience is just really stupid IMO.
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As the mother of a med student, I know that all of those extra years of education cost a lot of money. Plus, once in residency, the student is (barely) paid. It can help when money isn’t unnecessarily spend in undergrad unless the family can easily and happily part with the money.
And as an aside…since GPA is so important to med schools, picking a school where the premed student’s stats are strong and a top gpa is more likely, is a good idea.
This is just my personal opinion of schools I want to apply too. I’m not 100% sure the pre-med track is the way I want to go. I had a few perspective med schools in mind, but even if I want to go to my #1 in state, the cost of that is = to the cost of med school. Its a legacy that I want to follow in though. I have time to decide. It’s not worth arguing, but I appreciate where you’re coming from. Lets just keep this thread about the person who’s considering UMich, thanks for the input though. I get where you’re coming from.
I feel like you are getting off topic.
Sorry, just replying to what they said and the advice they gave to me. Sorry this got off topic, just wanted to defend myself and state my reasonings about comments that were made. Bottom line, you will thrive anywhere you go. Maybe talk to your parents and see what they think. In the end its your personal choice.
I think Ill stick with umich and try to earn as much money as i can before i attend in the fall.
OP, don’t make any decisions until you get your aid package. As someone pointed out upthread you are limited to $5.5K in loans. I know UMich stated they will TRY to meet need for low income OOS students but wait until you see the numbers.
Umich is better than IIT.
Okay for now i a m getting a job and hopefully ill end up with 20 grand by august.
Still haven’t said why not UIUC. Granted, their fin aid isn’t good.
If you stick with engineering, definitely go with the cheapest option. Paying more to attend UMich instead of UIUC for engineering would make zero sense.
because i dont want to go to Urbana Champaign… i love ann arbor
17 weeks until the end of the school year…if you got a part time job making 15 dollars/hr and worked 25 hours per week you would make around $4800 after taxes. You would only need to make a little over $1,200/week for the summer. Seems easily doable.
lol no i would work full time… im not in school this semester
Well, FWIW, my wife has two brothers with engineering degrees from Michigan Tech and a cousin with an engineering degree from Michigan. They all work for the same company at essentially the same job. I would’ve chosen Ann Arbor over Houghton to be sure, but for career advancement it didn’t matter for them.
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that’s not likely…doing what? working how many hours per week?
Do you realize that if you earn THAT much, you likely won’t get much aid for the second year?
You need a back up. transfers don’t get much aid. UMich costs over $55k for upper division OOS students.
that’s not likely…doing what? working how many hours per week?
Do you realize that if you earn THAT much, you likely won’t get much aid for the second year?
You need a back up. transfers don’t get much aid. UMich costs over $55k for upper division OOS students
I will get a full time job as a personal assistant until august… im hoping ill make enough.
I personally recommend giving Virginia Tech, UVA, or Richmond a shot. Keep VCU as a safety maybe. If you want to go into engineering or anything medical/science that requires more than a typical bachelors’ degree, you want to be able to save as much as possible. Grad school doesn’t offer as much scholarships–it’s pretty much all loans.
UMichigan would be WORTH it if you were in state. But you’re not. OOS tuition really isn’t worth it unless they offer you the world and a half (which we all know they would never offer to anyone). So, I really think you should give Virginia schools a second glance. They are all very good and will offer you a good education.
EDIT: Just saw you only applied to two schools, UMichigan and UIC. You really shouldn’t have applied to just two schools, let alone OOS public schools. You always should have safeties that will work in a pinch if the original plan doesn’t work out. But I guess there’s really nothing you can do about it now. Just go wit whatever offers you the better deal.
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Do you have any idea how much you’d have to earn each week (and NET after various taxes) and save?
You don’t have the job yet. If you were able to work for 25 weeks between Feb and August, you would have to earn around $900 per week to end up with $20,000 by August. Do you really think that you can earn anywhere close to $900 a week at this point? You probably couldn’t earn/save half that amount by then.
You’re an engineering major…you should be able to do the math.
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I will get a full time job as a personal assistant until august… im hoping ill make enough.
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So, you’re not going to college this semester?
Do you really think someone is going to pay a college kid $180 a day as a personal assistant? You need to come down from the clouds.
So, you’re not going to college this semester?
Do you really think someone is going to pay a college kid $180 a day as a personal assistant? You need to come down from the clouds.
i will more than likely have more than one job… if i cant make 20 grand then ill take out loans … i did the math