UVA vs VCU Honors with Scholarship

AVR455
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 01:54:01 +0000

I respectfully must disagree with the post above.

1. Getting into UVA undergrad will have no effect on you trying to get into UVA Medical School. If you go to VCU with the guaranteed admission (assuming you retain a 3.5) you will be admitted to MCV and can still apply to other medical schools. I have a friend who did this and ended up at UVA. At UVA you will not have this same arrangement so there would be no fallback option (if that’s how you want to see it).

2. Medical schools will not care much (if at all) about where you went to undergrad. It doesn’t matter if you go to UVA or VCU, what matters are your grades and MCATs primarily.

3. 15k a year adds up even if it is below average. If you could save that 60k and put it towards medical school you will have far less debt upon graduation. Doctors make very little after graduation (you must get through residency first which does not pay a lot) and you’ll appreciate the difference once interest starts to rack up.

None of this means UVA isn’t a good choice for you. It is. Given the options, I prefer UVA over VCU (although I am a biased UVA alum). That said, the VCU package is very compelling and may in fact be the better choice for you. It sounds like it might be.