Dartmouth or Cornell (premed)

Grisam
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:06:13 +0000

Caillebotte the fact that Cornell has 9 bio departments dpesn’t matter when it comes to med school admissions.



It matters for research opportunities, course offerings and on attention. A school with a developed biology department - i.e. Cornell - is much more likely to spend time on a developed pre-med program than a school with a weaker biology department (i.e. Dartmouth).

Both are fantastic schools. The competition at Cornell is definitely much more than that of Dartmouth. One problem I see is that Weill Medical School is in NYC. If you do choose to go there for shadowing/clincial/ hours/research, you’ll have access to the sixth best hospital in the country - NY Preb.