LSU Honors College vs. Tulane (Pre-med)

af090391
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:13:59 +0000

<- 3.5 GPA student with a 33 ACT. I’ll try to give my opinion.

1.) Science courses are pretty much standard across the board for every university. The difference in Tulane vs LSU would probably be how much attention you get from teachers, and how the quality of the teaching. You will learn the same things at LSU, but it will probably require more effort on your part to teach yourself.

2.) Med school doesn’t really care about prestige outside of places ranked up with Harvard or Stanford. Even then, Med school admissions are much more about numbers then they are about prestige, all else being equal.

3.) Expenses matter. Federal stafford loan limits cap out at 32,000 dollars, and then you would have to get private loans, unless your family doesn’t make a lot of money. If you can keep costs low while going to Tulane, then choose between them, but if you are a full pay to Tulane, then don’t go. Coming out of undergraduate school with $200,000 in loans is extremely inadvisable, especially since Med School will probably cost another $200,000.

Even at a low interest rate of 6.8% a year, you would be tacking on another 27,000 dollars a year just out of interest when you finally leave Med school.

If money is no object, then go where you feel you will do best. You’ll be happier, and it will probably have a more positive effect on your grades then if you chose a school logically, thus increasing your chances of going to Med School