@suzy100: I just meant that Big Law typically isn’t making it’s money righting clear injustices. In almost all the cases where lawyers make good money, you can make as compelling a case that what they are doing isn’t good as you can that what they are doing is.
LOL… What is happening?
@Tamadrum313 The main issue is that your posts lack credibility. What your parents’ financial situation has to do with HLS grants:
http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/sfs/financial-aid-policy-overview/why-hls-considers-parent-resources/
Moreover, all HLS aid starts with a base loan package of 48k. There are no full tuition grants. Indeed, as you stated, someone is not properly informed.
I’m unsure why you would think that. You clearly have an adversarial tone. I asked a question about making a decision between 2 schools. I set up a scenario to help nail down the values I have. In my case, the grant funding amounts to full tuition. I think you are talking about the full attendance cost. Also, I noticed that you didn’t answer my question, but like some on here jumped to conclusions about “credibility” absent full information. Listen, I’m not the one.
@Tamadrum313: I think that the discussion of MCAT scores and scholarships and alternatives is missing the main question: What do you want to be doing 30 years from now? In what way do you want to be helping people, as their lawyer, or as their doctor?
OP is probably a college student thinking what would look more “prestigious” a law degree or a MD. Come back when you actually have taken the MCAT or LSAT.
People are confusing Ivy undergrad rules with grad school rules.
Ivies certainly offer merit for grad schools! Don’t you think they fund PhD programs!! Yes.
But…H doesn’t offer merit for law schools.
I think I read that the old MCAT is still good taken the last year it was offered is still good for THIS cycle.
“OP is probably a college student thinking what would look more “prestigious” a law degree or a MD”
20 years after graduation, NOTHING is prestigious. After 20 years in a field, you go into work and get motivated or you don’t get motivated according to whether or not you picked the right field way back in the past, and at that point it is generally too late to change your major.
There are plenty of adults with prestigious degrees who don’t like what they are doing in their career. At that point no one cares whether their university or their degree was prestigious, including them.
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BTW I appreciate all of your posts, even the passive-aggressive ones. This is a real post and this is a real decision that I have to make. I was already pretty sure but uncertain about my future. I’m getting there
From the HLS website:
"HLS does not award merit or full-ride scholarships, but instead focuses on need-based aid. "
okay, I’m done with this - I wish all a wonderful life.
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Ok…I’ll bite. This student says he took the MCAT…the old one…as a junior. The NEW MCAT started to be given in March 2015. If this student is a senior now, two years ago, he would have been finishing his sophomore year of college…not his junior year.
Thanks,Thumper1.
He said that he graduated a few years ago.
Correct.
@brantly “recently” is what he said. Where did you see a few years ago?
Regardless…if he scored a perfect MCAT score on the old MCAT, he has had that score for two years. Lots of time to ponder and decide what to do with it!
You could do HLS + the Harvard School of Public Health.
@thumper1 Good point. I interpreted “recently” as within the last few years.