wis75

Pick schools that are a good fit for you, just like everyone else applying to college. Tougher schools have an advantage, you do not want the easiest public school; remember public medical schools are full of students from their flagship universities. You want to enjoy college so concentrate on the good ones that appeal to you, not the ones with the best admittance stats. Remember to have a major you like, you can be an art or music major; it's harder to take all the required science courses but you will be happier.

Consider this- you may change your mind about becoming a physician, or not get into a medical school. Plan on the major and school that you want to spend your time in, your choice will affect how well you do in college. Top priority now is a place you can imagine living for four years.

richter915

geez, I feel like such a fool for going to Stony Brook University (a SUNY) but when you consider how much I pay to go here (less than a thousand per semester due to scholarships) I feel like it's worth. So consider the cash you have to spend. It might not be worth the 40K a year for NYU. You shouldn't discount all state schools I feel. Pre-med here at Stony is pretty vicious to say the least.

collegebond78

Sophie dAVIS IS QUITE SOLID FOR THEIR 7 YEAR bs/md Progarm.

bluedevilmike

So... would we be getting even more "pick a school" for me threads without post #5? Or were my efforts in vain?

bluedevilmike

A PM that was sent to me has had all identifying information removed.

1.) The USN rankings do not seem to matter much, since some schools that come from similar rankings seem to have quite different results, and some lower-ranked schools seem to have better results, on average.

2.) While I think it's possible that one school could, on average, have a lower admitted-student-GPA (in which case a 3.6 from there would trump a 3.8 from someplace else), it's impossible for me to say which school. It is not necessarily the higher-ranked one.

3.) 0.2 GPA points seems a little on the high end to me, in any case. I don't think many pairs of schools will demonstrate this large a gap.

4.) This gap in any case would probably disappear if one of the GPA's in question was a 4.0. It's hard to trump a 4.0.

5.) While gaps are sometimes attributable to MCAT scores, they are sometimes not. Furthermore, they might be attributable to EC's and interview skills -- there's no way for us to know.

Firstkid

What about LAC"S?

bluedevilmike

What about them?

Firstkid

LAC'S? Anyt thoughts?

bluedevilmike

You have to have an actual question before we can be helpful.

eli19

which school would be better for getting into a top med school, brown or cornell?

Firstkid

small Lac's vs big research universities for pre med path? For instance- Lewis and Clark in Portland VS maybe UCSD?

ASMAJ

You guys also have to consider that most of the people that end up going to duke, brown (or any of the other ivies) most likely have really good gpa's and will score well on the mcat. This give a exceptional high chance that they will have a high acceptance rate to medical school than someone that went to a top public. The school you go to doesn't make you get into medical school, its what you prove that you can do at that university that will get you into medical school.

ASMAJ

firstkid, depends on what you want. A small LAC will most likely have smaller classes and the opportunity to get closer with you teachers. At a big university, you will have a lot more research and variety of research to chose from.

COlsen573

Okay this is a similar topic that i have,
How are these schools in terms of their Pre-Med programs?
Which would be good for getting into GOOD med schools?
Rank horrible, poor, not good, ok, good, great, AMAZING

Boston U -
Colgate U -
Connecticut C -
Cornell U -
George Washington U -
Johns Hopkins U -
Northwestern U -
Rice U -
Tufts U -
Vassar C -
Washington & Lee U -
Whitman C -

bluedevilmike

See post #6 in this thread.