Best undergraduate pre-med program

sakky
Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:31:36 +0000

can anybody list some undergraduate schools that offer good pre-med program?

perhaps 10 private schools and 10 public schools?

Thanks in advance//



I’m going to answer the question this. The best “premed” programs out there, hands down, without a doubt, slam-dunk, are not Harvard or Yale or Stanford or any of these places. Nope, not by a long shot. Not even close.

Far far and away the best “premed” programs are all those combined BS/MD programs out there that guarantee your spot in a med-school. Think about that - guaranteed admission to med-school. In this day and age, that is absolutely priceless. If I knew for sure that I wanted to be a doctor, I wouldn’t even think twice about turning down Harvard for one of these deals.

Now, to be sure, some of these guarantees are really nothing of the sort. Many of these programs contain clauses that state that you have to maintain a certain GPA and/or get a high MCAT score to maintain that guarantee, and sometimes those GPA/MCAT thresholds are placed deliberately too high to prevent a lot of students in the program from activating the guarantee. Hence, you should inquire whether a particular program has such a clause and if so, historically how many students fail to cross that threshold.