Dartmouth or Cornell (premed)

slipper1234
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:07:07 +0000

I totally disagree with Jersey Indian - and in fact how most high schoolers look at pre-med. Almost every one of my Dartmouth friends are attending top med schools, my roommates went to Harvard, Penn, and Yale med schools respectively. The reason is the amount of attention you get - all Dartmouth students writing a thesis basically have a full year with 1 to 1 work with a professor. The advising through the Nathan Smith society is extraordinary, and unlike Cornell the med school is right on campus making research there easier as well. Looking back I think my high school friends who went to top LACs and places like Dartmouth did much better in terms of med placement than my friends who went to super cutthroat-curve based schools like JHU or big research universities.