NYU ($400k) or UMD ($50k) for Pre-Med ? Urgent please.

I'm an M3 at a T20. I'm pretty sure a majority of my classmates went to state schools. The school you attend doesn't matter, it's what you do while you're there

The only reason I'd ever choose NYU in this scenario is that your parents are multi-millionaires who don't care about wasting money. NYU isn't even a crazy prestigious school for STEM afaik other than the med school, I doubt it'd give you many more brownie points than UMD.

Go where you can get the most affordable education. in this case, 100% UMD.

Your education is mostly what you make of it, and having less debt will open up far more options for you. Less pressure to avoid gap years, more flexibility in taking on good opportunities that come up, less overall debt to pay down once you're out of school, opening up more options for where you practice.

UMD without a doubt - if it's not HYPS (or a few others) there isn't much of a boost in admissions.

The only way I see NYU helping is from med schools in the Northeast giving your application a tiny boost (but we're talking 1 MCAT point or less) since you have a higher probability of attending due to location proximity. Not worth it by any means and 99% of your success in med school admissions will be from factors that you control.

I went to state school on a full ride and was accepted to multiple T20s! Go to UMD and take advantage of the resources that a larger university offers.

Even if you end up changing your mind on med school I'd still take UMD; it would not be worth it staring down 200k in loans from undergrad, nevertheless an additional several hundred thousand dollars for med school.

Sidebar: Schools need to bring down their cost of tuition. 400k for ANYONE for undergrad is patently ridiculous; med school is slightly more understandable but even then its high. Can't fix it tho

PreMed2006 said:

Hi, I am a high school senior tryout my to choose between NYU and UMD. I want to pursue medicine preferably at a T20 Medical School aiming for a competitive residency.

My heart wants to go to NYU. Would going to NYU enhance my chances considerably reaching my goal of matriculating into a T20 medical school. Is the cost worth it? We are a full pay family.

Please consider three scenarios.

1. My parents giving $200k for PreMed and MedSchool combined.
2. My parents giving $400k for PreMed and MedSchool combined.
3. Cost doesn’t matter.

Thanks a lot.

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Your future self will thank you fir U MD.

It honestly doesn't matter. Go where you think you will be happiest.

If it were my money no way I'd drop $200,000 on any college degree in America, that's ridiculous

Woahhhhh, 200k?? Brodie, this ain't even a question. Shannon knows what's up