I need help picking a school in New England

juillet
Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:28:51 +0000

Holy Cross is a great school, but I don’t think it’s worth that kind of debt if you will have to borrow heavily for the school. Another thing that people have pointed out here in the past is that Holy Cross more or less constrains their pre-med applicants to people they think will be successful in med school admissions. (This information is not on the [url=http://academics.holycross.edu/healthprofessions/enroll]website[/url], and it actually looks like they are changing the way they do pre-med advising at HC - students no longer have to apply to advising. In the past HC didn’t recommend everyone for med school. But things may be different; I’d email and ask about it.)

Providence and Wheaton sound like the better choices here just financially speaking, and she’s in the honors program at Providence. In my experience at a completely different small college, the honors program didn’t mean much - students took a special honors curriculum, but the honors sections were open to non-honors students and actually most of the students in the classes were non-honors anyway - so basically any student could put together the honors curriculum on their own. (I actually found it a bit burdensome, because they constrained the electives I could take to satisfy certain requirements that weren’t, in my perception, significantly different from non-honors courses.) There also weren’t any special opportunities, lectures, classes, advising, anything, for honors students. I don’t know if that’s something specific to my small college or whether it’s a thing that occurs at a lot of small colleges simply because they are so small, but I would check out what the honors program actually means at Providence and whether it’s a significant extra opportunity.

I think I might go with Providence in this case anyway. She likes it; it’s more affordable than Holy Cross, and as you said if your financial situation changes Wheaton will cost the same amount as Providence. Have you tried appealing at Providence?