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Oct 22, 2026
A Healthy Dose of Pre-Med Advice
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42:53Kyra TylerHOST
Where's the starting point for parents as they consider the financial side of this process?
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43:01Michelle SmoleyGUEST
I think one of the things families maybe could be helpful information is a lot of times it doesn't matter so much the exact school or where a student gets their undergrad education to even get into medical school and become a doctor.
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43:22Michelle SmoleyGUEST
So I think One of the biggest pieces of advice I can give families and do tend to give a lot of the families that we speak with here at College Coach is, you know, be cost conscious as it relates to the undergrad school.
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43:41Michelle SmoleyGUEST
Make sure it's a great holistic fit, not just, you know, academically and socially, but also financially.
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43:50Michelle SmoleyGUEST
One thing that we... really want families to be aware of, and even young adults as they're pursuing medicine, is if you kind of tend to overborrow as an undergrad, it's really hard to, you know, interest keeps accruing and it keeps capitalizing.
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44:12Michelle SmoleyGUEST
And that's where you really get into those really unfortunate indebtedness in such situations.
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48:36Kyra TylerHOST
I'm thinking, maybe other people are thinking like, can somebody earn a scholarship to med school? A