Yale vs JHU vs U Penn for premed

collegemom3717
Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:25:50 +0000

Guessing things are getting jittery around your house as Ivy day approaches! Please help your student by not getting sucked into it. Your student already has CalTech & JHU, and Yale or UPenn would just be cherries on top.

All of the possible options are good for pre-med & volunteering; given your other choices the relative prestige of Yale is immaterial (except for you putting a sticker on your car, which should not be a decision factor), and whatever you read about UPenn is an opinion, not a fact true for 100% of people.

More importantly, none of those should be decision variables: at that level the key difference between them is how your student lands- how well they settle into the uni.

So pull back and put your energy into distracting your student for the next week.