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Hi everyone. I am a HS junior and am fairly new here. I don't mean to invade your space, but I need someone's opinion who is already in medical school. I am now in the final stretch of my college search and I found a school I absolutley love, Johns Hopkins. It is not because of its great medical school (although that is appealing), but because of its great History and Chemistry departments. Anyway, back to my point, I want to apply ED since it is my first choice I would LOVE to go there, but I am not sure if the debt I would incur would be too much to ever pay back, especially since I plan on going to medical school. My parents are able to give me around $50,000 overall for my education and I need to take care of the rest. So I pretty much will take on $100,000 in debt for any private undergrad. Is this just way too much considering I will take on another $150,000 or so for medical school? The reason I am not totally dismissing a private college for a [much] cheaper state school is because I really don't want to look at college as just a stepping stone, but as an experience in and of itself. I realize that one can be successful anywhere, but do the connections one makes at a top school help in the long run? Thanks a lot for the advice and I promise not to become one of those really annoying HS students asking "what classes I need to take my senior year to become the top nuerosurgeon in the nation." Well, thanks again.
--Mike--
[edit]: To the mods, I didn't realize posting the same thread in the allo and pre-allo forums was against TOS, sorry, but please don't close this thread, I really need all the opinions I can get. I promise I won't do it again.
--Mike--
[edit]: To the mods, I didn't realize posting the same thread in the allo and pre-allo forums was against TOS, sorry, but please don't close this thread, I really need all the opinions I can get. I promise I won't do it again.