Trying to help a friend

[youngin]

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I have a friend who has gotten into RPI 7 year combined med program and also USC(my school) and has to decide where she shall go. Don't worry this is not another bs/md vs. regular route thread. In both cases she will for sure apply out to a better med school or at least a different one. She is a top student and got into yale and harvard, but for many reasons(tution and scholarship money since both are full tuition i believe, ect...) she narrowed it to these schools. She is considering RPI because she can easily finish in 3 years. So really it becomes a question for her of whether to go to a very good school and finish in 4 years or a mediocre school and finish in 3. What do you think? She is not trying to rush things, but she is highly ambitious and wants to do a lot as for her undergrad will be just a preparation before she can do things she truly loves.

 

[dankev]

First, ask your "friend" what the heck RPI is. Then tell us. After that, tell her to go to the school she thinks she would most enjoy. Next, tell her to take her 4 years and enjoy them, because college is lots of fun. After that, she can worry about med school.

 

[youngin]

RPI is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Yea i never heard of it before she told me. I told her just to come with me and go to usc but if you have ever talked her about what she plans to do cuz it's what she'll be doing on the side of med school and after which is quite amazing, you would understand her difficulty in choosing.

 

[Syranope2]

rpi is an amazing school for engineering. if she wants to do something in that line, then i think the choice would be easy. however, the location is incredibly different from usc. to be honest, troy, ny scared me when i went out to interview for undergrad. my dad and i joked that the give you a handgun during orientation for self-defense. you can't really go wrong with a socal location. we'd probably need some more details to see where she'd really be happiest.

 

[Kazema]

RPI is by no means a mediocre school. I believe it has one of the highest workloads in the country, and is one of the top engineering schools as Syranope mentioned.

 

[youngin]

Well location for her isn't a big deal mainly cuz she has moved around a lot since her father used to be in the army and was constantly assigned new places. She has lived in east coast(ny, pennsylvania) and the west coast(arizona, california, washington). She is living in california now but really has not decided where she likes the best. I think she wants to live in missouri later so go figure. On the note of rpi being an engineering school, she does not want to go into engineering but rather an md/phd program later.

 

[youngin]

No more input?