Easier college for future MD?

bopper
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:26:21 +0000

If you want to go pre-med then think about:

1. The cheapest reasonable college so you/your parents can use the money for med school

2. The college needs to prepare you for MCATs but still allow you to get a good GPA

3. Access to volunteering opportunities (e.g., near a hospital)

4. Success in graduates getting into med school

5. Options if you don’t go to med school

So if you go to the easiest school…do their students end up going to med school? What %?
Will the school prepare you for the MCAT?

And like others say, take % that get into med school with a grain of salt if you look at college’s websites.

Let’s say 100 kids show up freshman year wanting to be premed.
After Freshman year 75 are left because some couldn’t hack biology.
After Sophomore year 50 are left because they coudlnt’ hack Organic Chemistry.
After Junior year 30 are left because some have changed their mind about their major…or they never got around to doing all those volunteer hours.
After Senior year you have to take the MCAT, get recommindations and maybe go before your Health Career committee to get a recommnedation. They look at your GPA, MCAT< volunteering, recommondations and give 10 of them a recommendation. The other 20 don’t apply because of the low probabaility of getting in because of no committee letter or bad MCAT scores.

So 10 apply and 9 get it. We have a 90% acceptance rate!
But if you look back at who wanted to be pre-med freshman year…it is 9%