<p>male, white, catholic, minnesota resident, family doe$nt qualify for financial aid</p>
<p>Future plans:</p>
<p>Pre-med undergraduate, attend med school, get in to a selective residency</p>
<p>The schools: </p>
<p>Accepted at:
MIT
Georgetown
Notre Dame (Honors Program)
Boston College (Honors Program)
Saint Louis University (Full Ride Presidential Scholar, Accepted at med school)</p>
<p>Waiting to here from:
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Cornell</p>
<p>Any advice would be wonderful!
I'll keep track of the votes and may factor that into my decision haah</p>
<p>Take the full ride and early admittance at SLU. No sense spending $150K at other colleges. Put the cash into a safe investment to pay for medical school and postgraduate work.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with going to St. Louis if your family needs the aid. If they don’t, there’s nothing wrong with going to the school you like best. Personally, I’d avoid MIT as a pre med and go to a school with a more balanced life that is an easier place to get a high GPA.</p>
<p>SLU is an awesome option. Full-ride plus med school acceptance? I wouldn’t pass that down.</p>
<p>But honestly, go where you’ll be happiest. If you like the atmosphere/campus/location of Notre Dame, then pick that. If you feel like you will do amazing at BC then go there. You’re fortunate enough that money doesn’t matter so you should just go with your gut and where you think you will succeed the most.</p>
<p>SLU is a great chance, but ND honors program (depending on whether or not you can afford, and take Med school costs into consideration) is good too.</p>
<p>Why did you even apply to MIT lol? It seems really random. Georgetown, Notre Dame, and BC are all good options. SLU won’t get you the prestigious residency you’re looking for.</p>
<p>if you’re planning to go into med, why didnt you apply to jhu? definitely go for the honors program, i think notre dame has a stronger science department than bc, but do u really want to be a doctor in south bend? lol your choice</p>
<p>I think people aren’t paying quite enough attention to Georgetown. Georgetown is a great school and has one of the best overall ratings of colleges in the country (when quality of life, social aspects, etc are factored in). In addition, they have a med school which is pretty good. I would really look into SLU, Notre Dame, and BC, but if you don’t like the school don’t go there just because you have a scholarship/honors college. I, personally, would go to Georgetown, but that’s just me :).</p>
<p>For pre-med, Georgetown or Notre Dame are good choices. Georgetown sounds like a much better place to spend four years - if you are really intense about the Catholic thing you might disagree.</p>
<p>And the MIT thing is weird, and seems to be an increasingly common trend. People who think that MIT would be a good fit would generally be applying to CMU, Caltech, etc. but increasingly random people are applying (and taking up spaces) at the ultimate dream college for tech types. If you got into MIT, you would have a shot at the absolute best pre-med schools. Stanford, Duke, and the Ivies would put you in a better position.</p>
<p>collegebound: if I attend notre dame, it does not mean that I will be practicing as a doctor in south bend. seeing that notre dame does not have a med school, I would inevitably have to study somewhere else (down the road) and the odds of me returning to south bend to practice would not be very good. </p>
<p>I applied to MIT just to see how I would fare in one of the most competitive applicant pools in the country. And I was fortunate to be accepted EA.</p>
<p>I did not apply to a top school with a medical school such as JHU or Duke because they are ridiculously competitive for pre med undergraduate studies (once youre there). I have heard of kids destroying other students notes just to get an edge on a test for some of these schools.</p>
<p>The one thing that worries me about georgetown is their lack of strong science facilities. They have been planning to build a brand new incredible building but it has been put on hold given the state of the current economy.</p>