Georgetown vs UCLA vs UC Berkeley vs UNC - premed

collegemom3717
Sat, 17 Apr 2021 23:36:53 +0000

waitingforivys:

I’m applying for grants at the moment!

waitingforivys:

disregarding cost as a factor)

If you are applying for grants you do not have the luxury of “disregarding cost as a factor”. As @ucbalumnus pointed out, unless you have $$$ for both UG + med school, you have to consider cost.

All the debt you rack up in UG will rack up interest while you are in med school- on top of the debt & interest you rack up in med school. I know a doctor who finally cleared her debt around the time her own daughter started med school. In the meantime, every part of her life choices was colored by the need to keep up those payments: where they lived, what car she drove, where her kids could go to college.

You have an amazing opportunity at UNC: it’s a top-tier school, and the ARP is great. For everybody, their in-state med school is their best bet, as most preference in-state students over OOS students.

TBH, even if cost wasn’t a factor, I would put UNC over the others for a pre-med, but the bottom line is that for a student looking at debt it really is a no-brainer.