<p>1) Neither school has a leg up on the other so much so that medical school considerations should have ANY impact on the decision.</p>
<p>2) Students should go to the school where they have the best fit academically, socially, emotionally and physically. Happy students are thriving students, not the other way around. </p>
<p>3) Going to nursing school and then trying for med school is not a good choice. There is only minimal crossover of pre-reqs, and the later years of nursing school preclude the overwhelming majority students from working on the upper level courses, like biochem and genetics, that a number of medical schools are beginning to require. The clinicals in nursing school are very time consuming. Given the current critical shortage of nurses, many medical school adcoms are reluctant to accept a newly minted nurse. Further, your daughter would be taking a spot in nursing school from someone who actually really wants to be a nurse. Certainly she should pursue what she wishes, but she would be best served by pursuing an academic (non-vocational) major.</p>