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My daughter is a junior in high school who is starting to seriously think about colleges and what she wants to study and do in the future. She has been a hospital volunteer for a couple of years now and has been talking about being interested in a nursing program. As a parent who doesn't really know much about the kind of training and education this would involve, does anybody here have a better idea? What is the difference between this and being pre-med? Is it as intellectually challenging a path? Daughter has straight A's at a public high school, lots of honors/AP classes, a 35 on her ACTs. She is a very smart kid, very curious about a lot of things, but also has a very compassionate personality that is probably a great thing for a nurse. Husband and I don't have any background in this, we are from a generation and culture that traditionally pushes kids to be doctors, lawyers, engineers but we are trying to be more openminded, we want to give good advice too. We don't want her skills to be wasted... does anyone know more about nursing as a career? Best nursing programs in the US? We are on the east coast, how are the programs at UPenn and NYU? Thank you for any help.