For medicine, is there really a need to attend a private university for all four years?

<p>Thank you for all the information! I haven’t had a chance to process it yet, but I’ll make sure to go through everything that you all wrote. </p>

<p>As for the graduating early thing, the reason why I’m so set on doing if I decide to attend UTD is because I know an alumna of my high school who graduated in 3 years from Cornell (BME) and is now at UT Southwestern. I figured, if she can do it at such a hard school with such a hard major, there should be no reason why I can’t do it from a much easier school like UTD.</p>

<p>Also, my dad made an interesting argument last night about Ivy vs. cheap school for med school. He said that he would feel much better sending me off to Dartmouth or something if I were pursuing a career in actuary or compsci or something else that can allow me to get a job straight out of undergrad. But if I want to pursue medicine, then I’m not “living off of” undergrad; I’m living off of med school and residency, so undergrad really shouldn’t matter at all. I think that’s very logical reasoning.</p>