My son loved the beautiful campus and that he got his own dorm room with shared bath with one kid.
Dad loved the merit.
Dad was like the student - he got into higher ranked and I thought it was settling.
My son told me all that was nonsense, that the world doesn’t go like that. That just college applicants and their helicopter parents do.
Turns out my son is right - at least in his case. And he’s got a job working with those kids.
In OPs case, they want to be a dr…at least now.
That’s gonna be challenging - anywhere.
Ps there’s a hospital adjacent to campus. No clue if they shadow there but the MCCullough prigram seems like a great opportunity for a pre med if they can get in.
Op- your son isn’t top notch academically. It is what it is.
But he’ll do his best at a place he’ll love.
Reputation doesn’t = love.
He needs to visit many of size and environment. One will click once he visits. Just make sure to only visit schools that will assuredly get to your #.
There are many.