A Difficult Quandary...Any Parents Available?

Hunt
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:17:45 +0000

“To play devils advocate: You don’t know for absolute sure that your parents will be able to pay for medical school in four years.”

Doesn’t that argue for going to Duke or Cornell now? I have to be a bit of a contrarian on this…while financial concerns are important, they aren’t everything. You will get some very valuable experiences out of an education at a Duke or a Cornell. Do some solid figuring on the financial impacts of different choices, but also be somewhat hesitant to give up high value in the shorter term for more speculative value in the middle term. (In the long term, you’ll probably be perfectly fine whatever you decide to do.)