<p>Considering no out of state scholarship.
Why not go instate full ride undergrad and more expensive nice med school?</p>
<p>This thread is vaguely passive aggressive. Be more specific.</p>
<p>Was not trying to being passive aggressive haha.
Wondering what reasons there are for a $250k undergrad education if you could get into a good med school without paying the $250k. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>There are no good ones that can overcome the difference between zero and a quarter mil, except “my family is very wealthy and my spending a quarter mil on education won’t ruffle any family member’s feathers or interfere with my ability to pay for med school.”</p>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>Not every state has a good state U instate students want to attend if they have other choices. Reasons may vary.</p>
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<p>The quality of a med school has NOTHING to do with price. …and ALL US MD schools are “nice”…in fact, they are all excellent. </p>
<p>What is your situation? What are your stats? What is your home state? </p>
<p>Where can you go for a full-ride undergrad?</p>
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<p>Who says that you have to pay $250k to go OOS? many pay little more or even less when they go OOS. </p>
<p>In South Carolina. In my situation I could probably get a decent scholarship not a full ride.
$250k was just throwing out a number. </p>
<p>Comparing these colleges:</p>
<p>Duke – $60k per year -> $240k after four years
University of South Carolina instate – $25k per year -> $100k after four years -> $60k after four years w/ good scholarship
Clemson instate – $27k per year -> $108k after four years -> $68k after four years w/ good scholarship</p>
<p>What are your stats??</p>
<p>Are Clemson’s assured for stats?</p>
<p>If you are full pay for Duke money is probably not a concern for your family anyways.</p>
<p>Who throws around 240 grand like it’s nothing? Not crazy wealthy.</p>
<p>Good enough to get about $6k assured.
1510 cr + math on the sat</p>
<p>What else are you gonna spend that on? Another vacation home? More crap that you don’t actually want? Besides half the students at my school are full pay at 60k a year so I would say a lot of people do.</p>
<p>College funds for other siblings, med school, funds for possible business investments etc.</p>
<p>I’m not materialistic so I don’t really buy needless stuff.</p>
<p>Financial aid? Sticker prices mean nothing. My ivy league bill is cheaper than my in-state public school’s would be. If you don’t get financial aid, it’s because you can afford sticker price without strain if you give up expensive homes cars vacations and private schools and live a lifestyle like my family’s. And not all schools and college experiences are created equal, especially if one keeps in mind that getting a medical degree should only be one goal in the life of a young person who wants his or her views challenged and mind enriched in a community of interesting and inspiring people. If you don’t care about that then just follow the money, no judgement on my end. </p>
<p>So state schools don’t have interesting or inspiring people. My views won’t be challenged. My mind won’t be enriched?</p>
<p>There are a lot of “it depends” in the answer. For example, PA residents tend to find their state(-related) schools to be expensive with poor in-state financial aid, so they are more likely to find other options attractive in comparison. In contrast, CA residents tend to have much better state school options from a cost and financial aid point of view.</p>
<p>I think it also depends on the options available for public in-states. In Missouri, there are not many significant public research universities. There are many small ones, but they are mostly liberal arts colleges that don’t really have a wide selection of majors or research oppurtunities, important for someone like me who is considering Engineering as a career path. In the University of Missouri system, we have 4 universities - Mizzou, S&T(Rolla), UMKC, and UMSL. Mizzou is a very large flagship school with a respectable journalism program. MoS&T is a fairly small but high-quality engineering school in a pretty boring town. I don’t really know of anything special wabout UMKC or UMSL, other than the former having an accelerated med program.</p>
<p>Thus, as a prospective engineering student, my options are fairly limited for public in-state universities. I have a fairly high ACT (32) but a decent GPA (3.67) and a higher GPA would be needed to earn more generous merit scholarships at my in-state publics. UA only requires a 3.5 for its largest scholarships, and ACT seems to be widely more used as a factor for merit scholarship consideration outside of Missouri. So, I have been looking to private universities known for meeting significant need and publics that offer merit scholarships.</p>
<p>I’d also imagine those who live in states where there are not many public universities would also naturally look out-of-state. But to be honest, I don’t think anything is really worth leaving the state to attend a public state university without a scholarship. The cost is too much and you can (within reasonable limits) go anywhere you want after graduation.</p>
<p>Also really depends on your goals, too. Med schools care hardly about the prestige of the name, difference between private or public, so naturally one would want to go to his or her cheapest option to save money for med school. For engineering, the most important factor for employment would be ABET accreditation. </p>
<p>While the OP is striking me as a bit hard-headed, there are definitely legitimate reasons to pick OOS schools. For some families, cost isn’t really an issue, so IS tuition vs. OOS state tuition is not a big deal. And for other students who are not looking to pursue med school/b-school/law school/grad school, they don’t have to be nearly as conservative when spending on college because they are fairly confident that it will be the bills they/their parents will have to pay. Some students may want to go OOS to escape a bad family situation, some have poor IS choices (eg Nevada) and have to look elsewhere, there really are a lot of reasons students may choose to go out of state, and as a few have said upstream, just because a school is IS, that doesn’t mean that it is necessarily cheaper, some privates offer good aid, and some OOS schools offer excellent merit scholarships. As an example, it is currently cheaper for me to go to Alabama than Rutgers (my state flagship). </p>
<p>@barrons “Not every state has a good state U instate students want to attend if they have other choices. Reasons may vary.” I totally agree with this statement. My state only has two larger state universities, neither of which provide a good education that would help get into a med school. That’s why some of the top students go OOS.</p>