<p>Kaukauna - thanks for the kind words! And yes I am very close to making that decision. I don’t know if you are a premed or not, but good luck to you too in whatever you are pursuing! </p>
<p>Cruiser101-
I spoke to the premed committee, so please don’t think that I am basing my info on “rumors on the internet.”
First of all, there is no program for undergrads at Weill (if you don’t know, Weill is Cornell’s medical school), that is a fact according to the premed advising team. Now there may be a program in NYC, which is good. However my main concern is clinical opportunities DURING the school year, which again, after speaking to various Cornell premeds, are very rare.<br>
Why do you think there are rumors of med school acceptance? Look at the chart I attached in the first post of this thread - it is the last available chart for premed acceptance. Look at Cornell’s HCEC website and try to find any acceptance rate that is more recent than 2010. I spoke with the pre health advising: they said they are unable to make applied/accepted charts for the past few years because they don’t have anybody recording the data. And please don’t spread rumors yourself: look at the chart I attached. It clearly says, “admission statistics for FIRST TIME applicants.” The acceptance rate for FIRST TIME applicants is 67% (or rather it was in 2010, and may have dropped further in recent years). So your assertion that the acceptance rate is based on all applicants is false. Finally, the fact that Cornell doesn’t screen applicants is not that big of a deal. And at Cornell (according to Cornell’s Career Services), anybody with a GPA under 3.4 is discouraged from applying to med school (though not prevented from doing so). Regardless, no screening occurs at WashU and WashU still has a higher acceptance rate to med school (again, if you don’t believe me, look at the chart). Good luck to your son as a Cornell premed, btw.</p>
<p>I think I know which school I am leaning towards and which school is the obvious choice for premed. Again, if any Cornell premed would like to chime in, please do so. </p>