Match Me: Hispanic Female STEM

aunt_bea
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 20:20:38 +0000

MrkInMerrick:

So premed should be at much less that 60-70k. Engineering would have a higher budget for undergrad.

Our Hispanic daughter graduated from her med school program this past Spring. We saved $$$ in 529 accounts. She attended a UC for undergrad and attended a UC program for med school. It is a very expensive experience even for those of us who pay instate rates!

With your daughter, you really need to find a very inexpensive program so that by the time she graduates, she will have the funding to pay $300K+ (minimum) for med school and her expenses.

All of my daughter’s med school roommates (4) were on loans, loans and loans. My physician (who graduated-years and years ago- from UCLA’s medical school) recently asked about my daughter and told me that he had just finished paying off his med school loans - 20+ years ago.

Our eldest attended SUNY Buffalo (OOS) which had a program leading to medical school. She would have smoothly transitioned to a med school program. She ended up changing majors to EE/CS. She received an excellent education there and has been back in California since graduation. She had zero problems finding a job out here in SoCal and has moved rapidly up the ranks in engineering management in her corporate experiences.

SUNY’s are extremely underrated. WE knew nothing about the schools. Sending our 18 y.o. daughter to upstate New York with no relatives on the East Coast was a challenge. Our daughter handled it well and performed well. She was on a full ride then.

I’m sorry that students from LI are rejecting their SUNY’s because these are really affordable, good universities. I think these would be her best bet with her goals of Med School.

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Edited to Add: Scholarships for med school don’t really exist and, since these are some of the best students in the nation, every single student would qualify for them.
The students are either on loans or on the Bank of Mom and Dad.

As for being Hispanic in a Med school program, it is not rare. In California, it is very common. Also, as for being bilingual, in my daughter’s class of 127 students, many were near-native in fluency in Spanish without having “hispanic” backgrounds. Most of the students in her class were also fluent in a language other than English (Mandarin, Tagalog/Pilipino, Russian, Vietnamese, Persian, and ASL).