Louis Gossett Jr
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Dammit you just gave PhDeac a free grant idea again.
Ugh. He’s making a primarily political argument that doesn’t address the basic issues of demand for college graduates in the workplace. As long as employers want college graduates and are willing to pay more for graduates from prestigious institutions, people will take out loans to get degrees and get them from prestigious institutions.
My high school Chemistry, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Calculus classes were all harder than my first year college classes.
Small town school in West Virginia. There are about 100 high schools in WV. The one I went to was/is in the top 5.
that site shows that only 36% of students are receiving grant aid, meaning that two-thirds of students are either paying full freight or taking on debt
That’s a stunning statistic to me - hard to wrap my head around 64% paying full freight, whether up front or through debt. Breaking it down further, grants are probably a token amount for a majority of kids. Thinking there are lots of generous grandparents out there.
This is incorrect in regards to medicine. One is much more likely to get into medical school if they go to a highly ranked undergrad with a strong premed advising program and an affiliation with a medical school. Once you get into medical, it doesn’t matter much where you go to school or do your residency.
I assume merit scholarships don't count as grant aid - so a lot of kids are getting a lot of money that way.
I'm not sure what you do or where this opinion came from. But in my experience, it's not accurate at all
I'm an academic physician that works on a medical school admissions committee.
Maybe he means the second part.
#anecdotes but my buddy was summa cum laude majoring in Bio at Wake with above average test scores and got straight rejected by some pretty middle-of-the-road med schools