<p>Don’t assume, it makes an ass of you and me. Until the “acceptance season” dies down, you really can’t say you will get into every program. For the Drexel choices, it is personal choice which undergrad you like the best.</p>
<p>If your goal is medicine, not sure why you have Brown or JHU as choices unless your goal is to go some other medical schools.</p>
<p>Both those schools will be hard and premed competition won’t be easy. Did you get into Brown?</p>
<p>@texaspg I completely agree. Unless you have a really good reason to turn down a program, I don’t know why you would.</p>
<p>@texaspg @TheBombingRange there are people who turn down programs for a better undergrad experience. I’m positive Brown provides a better undergrad education/experience compared to Drexel or another program’s undergrad school. AND you can still get into medical school regular route.</p>
<p>It is a highly individual decision. so we are questioning why sjshah vested so much time and effort pursuing these programs if it could go either way.</p>
<p>I’m not assuming much except with Brown. I’ve been admitted to Nova/Drexel, which is suppose to be the harder of the Drexel undergrad programs to get into (with the exception of Lehigh, which I didn’t apply to) and I have also been admitted into SLU med program. AND Temple/Temple is more competitive than W&J/Temple. My main reason for asking this question was gauge others’ opinions. I didn’t mean for an advice post to turn into an attack or ASSUMING that I was going to go to Brown either way. I was just listing my options. I listed Brown b/c I has been my dream to go to that University since freshman year, so I always keep it in mind. And no, I have not been admitted, as decisions come out on the 28th. </p>
<p>SO my main question was between Temple vs Nova/Drexel vs. Drexel/Drexel (sorry if I was vague with my question)</p>
<p>@sjshah, is there a specific field you want to go into? If you know you want to do internal med or pediatrics or family medicine, Drexel is the better option. However, if you want to become high specialized, you might want to consider other options.</p>
<p>@sjshah, how do the three options stack for undergrad costs? Is that a consideration for you?</p>
<p>@mistryse13 Thank you for being the first to actually attempt to advise me instead of berate me. I am interested in orthopedics or oncology. Would you say Temple med is the better choice? B/c when I saw the school, I loved it. However, Temple’s program is apparently not as recognized as the Nova/Drexel program, mainly bc of the fact that an interview is still required for entrance into med school. Also, I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with the Temple Temple program, as many people seem to turn it down for Drexel program, even though I personally think Temple med destroys the facility of Drexel med.</p>
<p>@retro22- Temple offered me a full ride undergrad. Nova is still pending exact scholarship, but was given an estimate of about 50-75%. Drexel is I believe 50% tuition. However, cost is not much of a consideration, although I will be paying for 1/2 of my college tuition. I want to have the best education and experience possible, so I don’t mind the money much (my parent’s said they don’t want me to choose based off money, either).</p>
<p>The Drexel undergraduate schools are definitely the better undergraduate schools: even if you decide not to go to Drexel med or change your mind about medicine, atleast you have a decent undergraduate backing. I dont know much about Temple’s undergrad. A possible reason for choosing Drexel med programs over Temple is probably area. Drexel med and Villanova are in a much better area than Temple. As retro22 mentioned, is cost a factor for you?</p>
<p>Shah - Don’t consider my views as berating you as much as asking for more explanation in the why. People can rank combined programs and undergraduate programs but not both in the same grouping. Personally, I would rank both your undergrad only schools over all others but you seem to have way too much vested in the combined programs already.</p>
<p>A question along those lines is if Brown is your dream, whose dream is the combined program?</p>
<p>@mistryse13, no cost is not a factor. Right now, I’m looking only at the education of the schools and the undergrad experience. From what I’ve heard, Nova is full of snotty rich kids (I know a few people from my school who go there haha). Drexel, however, seems to be a good school with a lot of diversity, but the program is not as “hard” to get into as Nova’s, which makes me think that if I was given admission to Nova, I should take it over Drexel/Drexel. However, over Drexel med, I definitely like Temple Med, but as I discussed earlier, there are so-called “pitfalls” in the program, requiring more than what a bsmd program should require (med school interview, etc), not to mention a some-what scary atmosphere for undergrad.</p>
<p>Anyone know when I can expect to hear if I’m a finalist for Rice/Baylor?</p>
<p>Yeah, I think the main factors you need to consider are the post undergrad interview, and also, what type of campus you perfer. Drexel and Temple are both in the city, which has both some perks and pitfalls, whereas if you like a slightly calmer setting, Villanova is right on the outskirts of Drexel (i think less that 30 minutes away) and has a much more serene campus. I have a few friends enrolled in the Villanova program, and they absolutely love their undergraduate time there.</p>
<p>@texaspg- BSMD is not my dream, but more of practicality. My parents have no say in any of this, this is just me. I applied to the BSMD programs b/c when I found out about it, the programs with no MCAT and no true sturdy requirements really interested me, as I wanted time to explore other aspects outside of medicine (why Brown PLME is my first choice) while I still want to become a doctor. However, although PLME decisions aren’t out, no one can say they are even minutely confident that they are going to be admitted into one of the most pretigious BSMD programs in the country, none-the-less, regular undergrad to an ivy league. So, Im hoping for the best, as PLME would mix the best of both worlds for me. And keep in mind, I’m not trying to “dodge” the MCATs. I’m just more interested in exploring different subjects without extra stress, if that makes any sense. However, with the programs I have “left” (with the exception of PLME), it seems as I won’t be able to do as much exploring as I would’ve hoped.</p>
<p>"Anyone know when I can expect to hear if I’m a finalist for Rice/Baylor? "</p>
<p>You hear about it a day or two after Rice results come out.</p>
<p>shah - you may want to come back after April 1st and pose the question once you know all the results. It is premature to weigh an unknown outcome in your ranking.</p>
<p>And before you do @BombingRange- please don’t berate another person for saying Brown or any other ivy league/expensive school is their “dream”. We all know that you take money in strong consideration, but please keep that to yourself, as many of us (myself included) need to keep finances into consideration b/c of younger siblings, etc, but are willing to take the “hit” financially with student loans, etc b/c of the great education and experience. And although it’s hard not to take this post to offense (as I felt to many of your posts toward myself and others), please notice that I’m not trying to attack you, as I have absolutely no desire to waste my time on that. Just chill out and instead of spending time on attacking other’s POSSIBLE motives or intetions, just answer their question.</p>
<p>@sjshah, if all you want is to be a physician with options to choose whichever specialty you want to go into, a good medical school is much more important than a good UG school. According to my dad (a physician), once you graduate from a medical school, no one cares about which UG school you go to anymore. Brown is an Ivy but the medical school, although ranked fairly high, is not really thought much of by the medical communities.</p>
<p>@patrickstarr- my uncle (also a physician, who graduated from UPenn undergrad and Columbia Med) respects Warren Alpert (aka Brown) Med school as it takes a different approach in teaching their students. I think you’re more asking about “why PLME,” but to me, I could care less if other care about what undergraduate school I went to. A college is a college. However, Brown offers students a completely different experience. Also keep in mind that prestige again means very little to me, as I haven’t applied to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or any other ivy league school/high status school with the exception of Brown or JHU (which, tbh, was just to know if I could get in).</p>