<p>I recently discovered today that I received the highest merit scholarship that Loyola has available…actually it’s slightly over the maximum they list on their website. Yeah, practically a full ride (I might even have too much financial aid)…my main choice is Emory… but then I got this in the mail. Now I’m stuck.</p>
<p>Will going to a lower school affect my chances of getting into the top 10 medical schools? Its still a tier 1, and its not that poorly ranked…well not really that bad at all…but should I take it? If I go to Emory and don’t have decent financial aid, I probably will be in debt…before I even start medical school.</p>
<p>If going to Emory involves a decent amount of debt, that’s not good.</p>
<p>How much debt? $10k total is ok…$50k in debt is bad. </p>
<p>BTW…if Loyola NO is offering you a lot of merit, aren’t you getting similar offers elsewhere?</p>
<p>Where all did you apply?</p>
<p>edited to add…</p>
<p>On another thread, you list that you have a 27 ACT and about a 3.7 or so GPA…that doesn’t sound high enough for a full ride to Loyola NO and it doesn’t sound high enough for Emory. Can you clarify.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m applying to oxford college of Emory…not main campus. And I was shocked when I got it in the mail too! I was like, how?!! I think maybe because of my essay. When my counselor proof-read it, it brought her to tears. But idk! Ask the admissions counselor. XD</p>
<p>Ummm…I applied to loyola no, St Edwards (almost full ride), Tulane, Emory, Trinity, Drexel, UT Austin…and a few other public schools which I got accepted to but am not interested in. Besides those schools, I only heard back from Edwards and Loyola so far.</p>
<p>Also why do you want to go to a top 10 medical school, whats wrong with top 20, or any us m.d. medical school? Are you in it for the prestige?</p>
<p>Emory, main campus is really good about FA. I don’t really know about Emory Oxford’s FA. In my situation (based on what my parents make), I thought it was worth going to Emory, if I had to pay 30k a year, because if I had gone to my state school, where I would not have gotten any FA, I would have had to pay full cost which is 20k a year. IMO, Emory main campus is worth 30-35k a year, any more than that and its not worth attending.</p>
<p>I actually would not advise going to oxford campus, because from what oxford kids have told me, its located in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do. If you can manage to stay in a place like that for 2 years, then you shouldn’t have a problem.</p>
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<li>Prestige</li>
<li>The rigor of the curriculum</li>
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<p>And a top 20 is fine. Baylor use to be my number one! I love Baylor doctors. I just don’t want to go to loyola if it will ruin my chances of getting into some of my dream schools. Right now I have a 4.0 gpa with about 21(ish) semester hours of community college. I’m also scoring 4’s on my ap chemistry practice test (still 3 months away) and I took biology (human anatomy and phys) over the summer and got two A’s…but it’s on a community college level. Should I throw all of this away and start over? I’ve heard that from a lot of people because it’s on a community college level.</p>
<p>If you can go to Loyola NO for free (which it sounds like you can), you should go there. </p>
<p>Med school is VERY expensive and if you’ll need to borrow $200k+ for that, then don’t borrow for undergrad. </p>
<p>Congrats on that scholarship!!! :)</p>
<p>Yeah…Did you take AP Bio and get credit? you may need to retake the sciences that you took at the CC level. However, those should be easy for you to re-take. </p>
<p>I don’t think it will look good if you got AP Bio credit, and then you took the next level (A&P) at a CC. you’re going to need to either retake courses or take higher level courses at the university.</p>
<p>Agree 100% with m2ck…Med school is VERY expensive and graduating from undergrad debt free should NOT be taken lightly. Emory-Oxford is not worth going into significant debt with a full ride at LNO as an option.</p>
<p>Loyola of NO will not prevent you getting into a top school…only you can do that. </p>
<p>There are several kids in my S’s class at UTSW from some small religious schools in the Midwest that I had never heard of before seeing the list of his classmates and I am pretty involved in the college selection process.</p>
<p>Need more info to try answer some of your questions: Where else were you admitted? Have you gotten $$ at any of them? If so, what is the delta in cost of attendance between them and LNO? Are you a URM? M/F?</p>
<p>There’s no sense debating something like this in the abstract. Wait for Emory (and other schools’) actual financial aid offers, and then compare. This board will still be here when they come through.</p>
<p>agree with bdm. I would not attend a college for four years that you didn’t like, even if ‘free’. Emory has great finaid, only slightly less than some of the well-endowed Ivies. Emory also has phenomenal resources for getting involved in research, etc. OTOH, the Oxford experience is more like a residential juco which automatically feeds into Emory. Also, check out Oxford’s curriculum – it doesn’t offer a lot of advanced courses, so you might have to schlep to the main campus for class.</p>
<p>Tulane does not meed full need. If you don’t have the stats for Emory-Atlanta, you will not be competitive for a merit scholly from Tulane. I’m guessing that Drexel doesn’t meet full need either.</p>
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<li>Its not prestigious. Our name recognition sucks (not to say that name recognition = prestige). The ivys, mit, stanford, caltech, duke IMO are prestigious</li>
<li>Its a tough school, but again not the most rigorous. If you put in the work, you will be fine. The ivys, mit, stanford, caltech, duke are rigorous schools. Top LACs are also rigorous…</li>
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<p>From this post and your other posts on this forum, how do you know so much about the school? Were you a prof. here? I am a curious…</p>
<p>I agree with BDM, wait for other schools, including Emory, to give you your FA then decide…this board and its frequent posters will be available in april…Good Luck.</p>
<p>The only decision I haven’t gotten back was Emory…I just wanted to know if I should even consider it. My dad practically told me to stop my plans to graduate early, go to school for another year, and go to rice. He really ****es me off. It feels like if I don’t go to a school ranked with rice or better he cant be happy for me. Same with all of my teachers…</p>
<p>My mom was the only one supporting me when I pushed loyola up the list. Everytime I talk to my dad about it, he always discourages me from it…like he didn’t even tell me congratulations. He didn’t even read the letter. He just told me that it doesn’t mean I can’t go to emory still…at first when he made these comments, I thought it was just him supporting me…but now I see it’s kind of for his bragging rights…idk…i think he wants me to go to Emory for him…If I go to oxford-Emory it will be to get into Emory-Atlanta, not because I want to go there…it’s in the middle of no where. I saw people hiking and climbing trees in pictures… Like a camp. My counselor told me to take the full ride because of the money and the people I will be around. It will get me out of my shell and I won’t be around just the middle-upper class group of students I went to school with. In New Orleans it might be dangerous, but at the end of the day it will help me get along with people and understand them better, thus making me a better doctor. The reason I asked this is because I felt as it would be very dumb for me to turn this down. Like, I didn’t even deserve this…but I don’t want to dissapoint my dad. :/</p>
<p>*agree with bdm. I would not attend a college for four years that you didn’t like, even if ‘free’. Emory has great finaid, only slightly less than some of the well-endowed Ivies. *</p>
<p>the problem is that I don’t think he’s applied to Emory… I think he’s applied to Emory-Oxford. That’s different. And, I don’t think they give great aid. More so, no one would know NOW what kind of aid the real Emory would give him as a TRANSFER student (since those schools tend to give lousy aid to transfers).</p>
<p>His test scores are not high…an ACT 27, so not high enough for good merit at Tulane or other ranked schools.</p>
<p>Unless you can get some kind of WRITTEN committment from BOTH Emory-Oxford AND the real Emory that they will meet need (generously), your dad needs to understand that transfer students RARELY get good need-based aid. Most schools do NOT give great transfer aid.</p>
<p>Your dad may be pooh-poohing Loyola, but he may be over-looking a very critical point. He sure wouldn’t be happy 2 years from now to learn that the real Emory doesn’t give transfer students much aid…at that point, it will be toooooo late for Loyola.</p>
<p>Prestige use to be my number one determinant when I looked at schools, but now I don’t care. As long as the schools is decently ranked, have professors I like, and a student body I can get along well with, then I’m fine…I want to tell my dad that but he’ll get disappointed. But it really made me angry when he recommended I stayed in school for ANOTHER year after how hard I worked my as* off to graduate early. Just to go to rice…and not really for me, for him. My dad loves bragging about me…</p>
<p>And I know my ACT scores are low, it’s because I make small stupid errors…like a lot. Everything in the test is super easy to me, I just didn’t take many practice test because I was overwhelmed with everything else. So I ran out of time on nearly all the sections and started guessing.</p>
<p>Emory finaid carries over to Oxford (and the Nursing School, btw), including the no-loan program for those under $50k income, and loan caps for those between $50-100k. Moving from the Oxford campus to the Emory Buckhead campus in year 3 is NOT a transfer; third years (aka ‘Emory Continuees’) just complete a few forms (declaring a major) and register for courses at the Buckhead location. Finaid will be similar if the income/assets do not change.</p>
but then I got this in the mail. Now I’m stuck.</p>
As long as the schools is decently ranked, have professors I like, and a student body I can get along well with, then I’m fine…I want to tell my dad that but he’ll get disappointed. But it really made me angry when he recommended I stayed in school for ANOTHER year after how hard I worked my as* off to graduate early. Just to go to rice…and not really for me, for him. My dad loves bragging about me…</p>