Best Premed colleges

Creekland
Sat, 16 Jul 2016 14:36:46 +0000

I wouldn’t want someone thinking that the school is sprinkling some sort of Learning Dust onto their students with 1200 M+CR SATs and getting them into med school.

What you are missing is that some of these students could actually be 1400+ students given the right situation. Perhaps the foundation at their school was lacking. Perhaps they were bored and not motivated. Perhaps they are late bloomers.

Put these kids into a school where they barely get in stats-wise and they’ll sink because their new peers will have had a good foundation and they’ll be lost trying to catch up.

Put them in a school where they are with peers and a smaller environment for more a personalized (and probably better) academic environment and they can, indeed, do better than past performance would have suggested.

Will they all? No. But if I had a student with these stats who wanted to attempt to head to med school, I’d be sending them to a school where they might succeed - like Juniata.

To the PP who asked about others… Allegheny, LaSalle, and Franklin & Marshall come to mind for places where some of our students have been successful. For those with scores that aren’t quite up there, I’ve even heard Shepherd recommended, but I haven’t heard back from students who attended there. LaSalle is somewhat larger I believe.

I might be able to think of others later.

I would think a good guess would be to check out some of the Colleges that Change Lives. If I recall correctly, Juniata is one of them.