Best Premed colleges

mom2collegekids
Sat, 16 Jul 2016 14:00:10 +0000

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never recommend a student thinking pre-med go to a school where they aren’t in the Top 25% of students stats-wise. (My guy was in that Top 25% too.)

One can argue “The ACT/SAT is just a test.” Well yeah, so is the MCAT. And there are other tests along the way to becoming doctors. Future doctors had better bone up on their testing skills.
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Yes about testing!! If you’re not a strong test-taker, it’s going to bite you in the fanny all the way thru. Not only with the MCAT (although that’s the first big hurdle), but also with shelf exams, Step I, 2, 3 and other exams.

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20 students admitted to Med school from such a small college and with such original stats indicates a college that punches way above its weight in terms of Med school admissions.

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Yes, it’s impressive. …and I think the number is 19. However, it does NOT indicate that those 19 were spread amongst the quartiles. For all we know, those could all have been from well-within the upper quartiles of admittance.

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.

About 800 are juniors and seniors (assuming that their 19 are coming from that applying cohort), 80 (10%) are in the 1400+ M+CR SAT,

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Before we inadvertently mislead folks about Juniata’s success rate, an important mention must be made. The 19 students admitted to med schools INCLUDE DO schools. The school does not seem to break out the number of MD admitted students. and I would bet that the one admitted into MD schools were the upper quartile.

Also…Juniata has a special relationship with Erie DO school where rather modest stats students can get in without ever taking the MCAT.

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LECOM: Students who wish to be in the pipeline for 4 + 4 Early Acceptance Programs must have a combined Math and Verbal SAT score of at least 1170 OR an ACT of at least 26 AND a high school grade point average of at least 3.5. Juniata overall GPA must be 3.4 or better, science GPA must be 3.2 or better.

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Students will not be required to take the MCAT exam. A letter from a D.O. or M.D. is no longer required. Only one Physics course with a lab is now required. LECOM will evaluate students based on Academic Index Score (AIS). This score will use the SAT/ACT scores in conjunction with College GPA. If AIS does not meet the required standards by start of fourth year at Juniata, the student will have the option of taking the MCAT exam.
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Suddenly their numbers aren’t so impressive.

The devil is always in the details…