College decision help [for pre-med student)

HopeFor_Best
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:47:08 +0000

Hello all,

Have greatly benefited from reading all the content on here. Here is a question as I am preparing to pick a college, after having gone through a hard-working school year and cycle with only pre-med acceptances and not any BS/MDs. As a high school senior had a reasonable GPA, excellent SAT, a lot of research(no publishing), reasonable volunteering, shadowing, etc. From your experience can you please suggest which of the colleges offer better for aspiring physician preferably with no gap years?
In terms of the factors to look for here are the one I am weighing on but please suggest any as you see fit from your experiences. Ty

1. Dedicated Pre Med or Pre Health advising team

2. Offering a Committee Letter

3. MCAT Preparation

4. Opportunities for service, research, etc. ECs

5. No grade deflation so to maintain a good GPA

Cost is not a major factor, only 1 full ride and rest are partial. Looking for successful path to apply for med school as priority after missing boat on guaranteed programs and rise from mistakes

Colleges considering -
FAU Honors College (Premed)
UPitt Honors
RPI
Stonybrook
VCU Honors
U of Richmond
U of Rochester

Thank you