Brown PLME vs Yale

afan
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:06:05 +0000

I would never advise any premed to take 4 science classes in a semester. Way too much work, way too much stress. You need time to digest and enjoy the science, not spend all your energy just trying to survive.

I am not underestimating the assured admission in PLME. Just reminding everyone of the odds. Yes, people go to Yale, or other top colleges, and have a lousy academic record, and are off the med school path. Yes, people go and are convinced they don’t really want to go to medical school. Could happen to anyone, and there are very few people at Yale who barely qualify academically. Someone has to be a the bottom of the curve, etc. BUT PLME people are selected to be those who will be at the top. And at Yale, you don’t have to be that close to the top to get into medical school.

I am not sure how much Yale’s high percent acceptance is due to weeding out, vs the fact that virtually all of them were top students coming in, so they get sky high MCATs and very good grades in college.

I got the impression the OP preferred Yale. If so, that is a strong argument in its favor. If it is a toss up between Yale and Brown, absent PLME, then PLME trumps.

Sakky. Something weird about that result. Back when I was in undergrad, they warned about a phenomenon that hit the very top students. These people had done extremely well in college, but thought they were so great that they applied only to Harvard and Stanford, with Hopkins as a safety, and seemed surprised when they did not get in med school. The next year they listened to the advisers, applied to a range of places, and got acceptances. By that chart, those Berkeley students would have been better off dropping a few gpa points and MCAT points and joining the 10/10 people with weaker records.