Vanderbilt or Duke University?

Question

My daughter is starting to look for a collage (she is in the 10th grade). She is going into the medical field and hopefully come out as a neurosurgeon. I'm helping with the research on schools and have been viewing their web sites but I was wanting opinion on which school you guys think would be the better medical school.

Answer 1

Most people don't go to medical school at the school they went to for college. After college you apply to med schools and there's no guarantee at all you can stay at the school where you are.

Most people who start out aiming for med school do't ever go. Some change their mind, others don't do well enough in pre med classes and change their major and many just can't get into any med school because there's so little space that you need very high grades and test scores.

For that reason it's a good idea to go to the best possible college so you ave options. Vandy is good, but Duke is better.