Wayne State almost FULL scholarship, Med School, HELP!

mom2collegekids
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:35:57 +0000

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Some people are telling me to go to WSU since it is an easier school to get a high GPA, and I will have more free time to do things like volunteer, research, and study for MCAT.

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These people are wrong. You will work just as hard to master the material at WSU as you would elswhere because that’s the kind of person you are (I hope).

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The coursework will not be easier, but it might be “easier” to get a higher GPA simply because there will less ACT33-like students in the class. At a school like UMich, the premed prereqs will be full of similar or stronger students, and those classes will have limited numbers of A’s.

That said, if the student can get a good merit pkg from MSU, then that would be good as well.

But…The student shouldn’t think that med schools are going to care where he went to college. He’s very likely going to end up at a Mich SOM, and none of them are going to care where he went.

What are the parents saying? If they’ll happily pay for one of the other schools, then super. But if the other schools will require loans…and loans will also be needed for med school, then that would be a big concern.