<p>First you can get a quality education at many U’s, finances need to be discussed with your family, debt is bad, you can be a great doc coming from any med school, and what if you change your major.
At UA you will be the smartest kid in all your classes and have little risk of being weeded out. Since only 38% of freshman graduate in 4 years if you graduate in 4 years you are in the top of your class.
At Vandy everyone in all your classes is an overachiever and as smart as you. There is risk of being weeded out. At VU 68% of graduates heading to grad school get into their first choice grad school. At VU you have a once in a lifetime opportunity to live 4 years in an academic community full of brilliant individuals going into different fields.
What state are you from? If you live in Alabama, UA is well known so you should have no problem getting into their med schools. If you are from CA, NY, NJ, how will their med schools look at an UA applicant to their med school? Will they take an UA grad. over graduates from their state universities with the same GPA? If you want to go to a top med school you are better off at Vandy.</p>