Direct Admit vs. Accelerated vs. Traditional

Raycmr
Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:49:31 +0000

I was a first responder on 9/11 and believed things were on the level for the upper ivies which offer tuition of 10 percent of parents’ gross up to 150k or 180k. I believe it because they receive federal tax dollars. However, for the unhooked the rate of acceptance is half the published rate. After reading all the posts of the accepted for 2010 , I saw the vast discrepancies of the skill sets of those selected and know these will be the power elites in this country in the future.

The combines and Rutgers Presidential scholarship full merit award do things on the level like Caltech does in California does for the engineers. I also personally met a grad at Yale who received a bio BS and MS had to go to 24 Med school interviews before a lower Ivy med school spot opened up. I also know two Princeton grads who had to go overseas for med school and believed the harsh grade deflation policies and lack of their own medical school impacted them.

I don’t consider these anecdotal stories since I have seen their faces. If your stress level is low and your debt tolerance is fine God bless you. My D’s combined offers her very low stress. She will grad debt free and remains on the Presidents list at school so it was a perfect fit for her. She has worked for years with autistic children and wants to be a pediatric neurologist to help these children who have no voice in society. She comes from a family of public service.

With the new health care act if enforced doctors can no longer have private cash patients and fees will be uniform thru out each states’ exchanges. So debt load becomes more important than ever. Unsubsidized loans accrue interest from day one so 150k note can take decades to pay off like a home mortgage. Albert Einstein only half jokingly said compound interest was the greatest force in the universe.