Chance a HS Senior for some T20's and BSMD

Exactly. There are a lot of universities that are quite good for premed.

Both daughters were able to stay well under this number (and both went out of state). The oldest stayed under this number mostly with merit aid with stats that were close but not quite as good as yours (which are excellent). Given your great stats merit aid is a real possibility at the universities that offer merit aid.

However, the really top schools (Harvard, Stanford level) generally do not have merit aid. You have some top schools on your list (Yale, Brown, U.Penn, …) and you should run their NPCs and also check whether or not they offer any merit based aid. BU also would have been way over this number for us. Many of these schools will probably be over budget.

I am wondering whether you should tell us what state it is, or perhaps approximately what its US News Ranking is (I suppose you could give us a range that includes at least one other state flagship to maintain confidentiality). It is possible to attend an undergraduate program that is not in the top 100 and still attend a highly ranked MD program (or DVM, one daughter did exactly that).

But I do think that you can stay well under $60k per year at a university that is very good for premed even if you go out of state.

Another thing to think about is how difficult it will be to maintain a “medical school worthy” GPA at different schools. McGill for example is known as being academically very demanding and having tough grading. It is a great school (I applied out of high school and was accepted, a sibling went there) but I do not normally recommend it for premed just because of the tough grading. The quality of the other premed students at Yale, Brown, BU, Columbia, U.Penn, Duke, or even your in-state public university might surprise you. Just as one example, one daughter at a university that is in the “not quite top 100” range had a boyfriend who was premed who had never had a B in his life (and this was after they both took organic chemistry). I do not think that he was the only one.

Given your current list, I would keep Simmons on the list. To me it is both a very good university for premed, and one that may be more likely that the rest of your list (other than McGill) to result in an affordable acceptance.

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