VT [full ride] vs UNC [OOS list price] (pre-med)

I am not being rude, but why is this a question if you are even considering medical school? Medical school is expensive. You have been given the gift of free college at a premier university. Take it.

As I have explained before, I am a lawyer. My wife is a pediatrician. Neither of us had loans for undergraduate. Both of us had loans for professional school. It took us 20 years to repay those loans. We had an awesome rate of 2.25% (good luck ever getting that!). We repaid over $200K. It is paid, but think about what we could have done with that money.

Now…if you went to UNC, you would pile debt on top of debt. Worse, education costs are higher as are interest rates. Does future you really want that debt because some magazine says UNC is slightly better than VaTech?

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