Cornell GPA- For Med School

keyboard29
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:42:32 +0000

Thanks for all the answers so far. I’m pretty worried about my chances into getting into med school because I got a 3.3 GPA for freshman year (after taking the usual premed courses). For any potential Cornellian, I do have to agree with norcalguy and his previous posts that Cornell really isn’t THAT hard as many people make it. In my case, my study habits were extremely poor (i.e. studying 2 days before prelims/finals or skipping chem lecture for 80% of the time).

That being said, and kind of a random question, but does anyone know (maybe norcalguy? hehe) how UMass Medical School is (I’ll have instate tuition)? I noticed that norcalguy said “if you don’t attend a top 25 college, you have a really really low chance of getting into a top med school.” Can you perhaps define top med school? I don’t know if I can really trust the rankings all too much (aka US News’ primary and research). For example, I heard that Dartmouth Medical is “very good” but then again, it’s not very high at all on US News rankings. I’ve also heard Umass Med is very good, but that was from Umass Med alumni and I guess people who have looked at the US News Primary rankings.