BS-MPH: Minnesota vs Case Western

Your daughter can be a premed intention at just about every four year college in this country, arts conservatories excluded. Please keep in mind that if she does get accepted to medical school, it will likely cost over $100,000 a year. And the future of college loans is in flux right now.

Most of the students who enter with a premed intention don’t ever actually apply to medical school, and of those who do, only about 40% actually receive even one acceptance.

A BS/MPH? Has she been accepted to a combined program like this..or are you hoping she will be able to follow her bachelors with a MPH. If she does want to work in the public health field as a career, she will need a masters degree to do so.

Disclaimer, my son in law has a master in epidemiology and global health (related to MPH), and my DD is completing an MPH degree as part of a medical fellowship. Both have done work overseas in the medical field, and both work in it here in the states. We also have several extended family members with MPH degrees.

I have the same question as @Bill_Marsh . Are there any other acceptances. Are these two affordable without jeopardizing your family finances?

At this point, your daughter should be looking for an undergrad school where she will be happy and feels she will thrive…that is affordable for your family. Any plans for medical school or grad school should be on the back burner right now…in my opinion. Those can be addressed later.

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