<p>A friend got accepted at Yale and has a very good chance into a 7yr undergrad/medical school in NJersey. If she gets accepted, what do you think would be a better choice?</p>
<p>Unless she has the two in hand there is not decision. How sure is she that medical school is her end goal? I have a friend who left IVY for an early ticket to medical school.........not a hard decision.</p>
<p>I'm confused...if your friend has to make the decision, why are you posting about it?</p>
<p>Anyway, hazmat has the correct answer.</p>
<p>If "your friend" is really set on med school, then the 7 year undergrad/med program would be the quickest, easiest, and most direct way. Is it possible your friend could get into a better medical school from Yale? Probably, but that path would also require more work and more time.</p>
<p>If "your friend" is unsure, then Yale would be the better choice. She would have the chance to really evaluate what she wants to do and if she continues to be a good student (I'm assuming she is since she got into Yale), then she'll probably have a chance to get into a better medical school than the BA/MD program school. (NJ is not known for having the best med schools. In fact, RWJ Medical School is currently under investigation for the misappropriation of research funds.)</p>
<p>i would take Northwestern BA/MD over any school in the country, including harvard yale princeton, etc</p>
<p>i would do the same for Rice/Baylor as well</p>
<p>its a really hard choice but in the end, i would take the med program. There is a greater chance that you will get a full ride during undergrad and u are guaranteed admit to med school. If you're looking for the prestige, no one cares about your undergrad once you are a doctor.</p>
<p>This all depends if the person is set on medicine or not. If so, then yes, the med program guarantee is really hard to turn down.</p>
<p>If not, then you're locking yourself into something that requires a full commitment. You may be better off trying to figure out if medicine is truly what you want to enter a general college. In which case, Yale is as good as it gets.</p>