Brown PLME vs Yale

phillySASer08
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:37:15 +0000

I agree with sakky on this one. While normally I recommend against students going into combined programs for the reasons mentioned, going to an inferior institution that may limit your chances if you decide not to pursue medicine being the big one, in this case of Brown’s program I tend to think you should go for it. Brown is one of the best places for getting your undergraduate education out there (I would certainly argue that for undergrad it is better than many other schools that are ranked higher than it), and having a guaranteed acceptance to a solid med school would relieve a great deal of stress later on. If you decide that you do not want to pursue medicine, you have an ivy education to fall back on, and with no core curriculum, it would be pretty easy to catch up if you decided med school wasn’t for you.

A side note: for all those who’ve said the OP could just apply to Brown med later on if that’s where they were interested in going (though I can’t imagine any high schooler knowing enough to be interested in a specific med school), it’s essentially impossible to get into Brown Med unless you’re a part of PLME, Brown undergrad, or have some connection to the state of Rhode Island. In fact, this may be something for the OP to consider against the program: do you really want to be around the same people for 7+ years?