Tulane vs. Vandy vs. Rice?

PurpleTitan
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:24:39 +0000

If you look at alumni achievements, Vandy isn’t Ivy-level. Rice is close. You can try to get one of the full-tuition scholarships at Emory as well.
You may also get merit money from Rice and/or Vandy (though likely not full-tuition). In any case, what your mother thinks is probably a moot point, because you can only get a few thousand in loans a year. So either your parents will have to pay or they’d have to take out huge loans if no big merit awards from Vandy or Rice.

BTW, as a spouse of a doctor, shouldn’t your mother know that undergraduate prestige doesn’t do all that much for you in medicine (unless maybe you’re applying for one of those MD-PhD programs)? Your dad should know who the richest doctors are and where they went to undergrad.

Getting in to med school will be due mostly to you (GPA, MCAT, and medical extracurriculars/research), not your school.

I find it hilarious that your mom says she won’t pay for Tulane when she can’t pay for much of anything. If you get acceptances, it’s put up or shut up time. Either they find the money to send you where they want to (in which case, a discussion is in order, and if your mom is willing to go in to heavy debt for Vandy when a full-tuition offer from Tulane is there, she needs her head examined), or you go where you want to go.