I’m gonna make a pitch for Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX (30 min from the Austin airport). It’s a CTCL (Colleges That Change Lives) school. Small…about 1500 students or just under that. Last year, 100% of their students who applied to med school got accepted. And about a month-ish ago, they announced a really big collaboration with Houston Methodist hospital for Southwestern pre-med/pre-health students to get summer internship experience in the health professions and medical research. Here’s a link explaining the internship/partnership thing…
Auto-merit scholarship info is available at First-Year Scholarships • Southwestern University.
Based on your kid’s stats, it would be a $27,000-33,000/yr discount on tuition. This would bring tuition+room+board to a range of $35,685-$41,685/yr. You have to apply by their EA deadline in order to be awarded this scholarship.
D24 & I were just there this past weekend. It’s walking distance to downtown Georgetown, which has a very charming town square with all of these adorable shops and restaurants. The school has a “sweet retreat” thing every Wednesday afternoon, where they bring in some local restaurant/food truck business and provide all the students with a free dessert treat.
also, St David’s Georgetown Hospital is about a 5-10 min drive from campus. Southwestern has pretty much all of their pre-health students do provider/doctor shadowing, internships, volunteering, etc. at St David’s.
And Southwestern also has 2 Zip cars which students can rent by the hour.