whs2012

Okay, so I'm going to Emory University in the fall...when I visited Emory I fell in love. I live in Houston so I've visited Rice many times. I also love Rice, but I didn't even apply because I didn't want to be that close to home.

To me Emory is a great school. I think an Emory degree will get me just as far as a Rice degree at the end of the day, but I kind of want to go to Rice....

I have several friends who are going to Rice in the fall and they are literally begging me to transfer my sophomore year. Should I? If I decide to transfer it'd have to be now, because I know if I enter college in the fall without the mind set of getting out in a year--I won't.

I'm a chemistry major. What is your opinion? Should I stay at Emory or transfer to Rice? I read that Rice has a 90% matriculation rate to medical school while Emory only has a 70% (or something similar). :/

Dwalker

Matriculation rate doesn't matter much. Schools have ways to over shot the actual number. Since a large amount of premeds might drop out, and there is no way to find the stats behind that, the rate is useless. If more students drop out of premed than matriculate into med school (even if 90% of those who don't drop out make it), thats means the program weeds out applicants, or is just too challenging. Also matriculation rate can take into account going to foreign and D.O programs. And you dont know how much times they had to apply to get accepted neither. So it all boils down to your personal preference.

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Colleges00701

^^ I seriously doubt a school of Rice's reputation would use tricks like that.


To the OP, NEVER MAKE PLANS TO TRANSFER BEFORE YOU HAVE EVEN STARTED COLLEGE. Try it out for your first year, and see how it goes. If you want to transfer after that, def. do so. I think its good that you are going far away from home for college. It will force you to meet new people (since you mentioned that you want to transfer to Rice because your high school friends are there). College is supposed to be the time you step out of your comfort zone.

Personally, I love ATL. There is A LOT more to do there than in Houston.

Dwalker

@Colleges00701, you must pay attention to my entire post. The 'tricks' are including D.O matriculation rates etc. I'm not saying Rice's is low, but Emory is not a bad school either. I don't think that the 20% gap matters much (even though both schools may or may not use 'tricks'). And if you get top stats than it doesn't matter at all.

But besides that, OP you shouldn't care much what your old friends think. Go to what college you think can get you furthest personally. You will make new friends in college so don't sweat it. Like colleges said, you haven't even started yet so why worry about it? You picked emory for a reason so reflect on that reason.

whs2012

Okay. What GPA should I maintain? That's another question I had. I know I should try my hardest to get a 4.0, but I also know it's highly unlikely. What's a good gpa to reach for? Also...I'd like to graduate summa cum laude or magma cum laude. What GPA would I need for that?

Thanks for your advice!

Colleges00701

This is from emory's career center about gpa:

Preparing for a Medical Career | Health Sciences Mentoring | Emory College | Atlanta, GA

Scroll down to the section about "Majors and GPA"


What they mentioned on their website has also been stated by a number of posters on this forum.

collegecred

I can't speak for the Emory Chemistry department as a whole but I will say that the chem classes that you'll take for premed requirements will have exceptional professors that seriously care about how you're doing in their classes and in general.

whs2012

Thanks!

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