Education major and Med School?

mcat2
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:22:25 +0000

the top elite schools would be highly unlikely to do any such thing since some departments may be so small as so only have a handful of grads every year.

If a student is in one of the smaller departments, I would think he may know whether he is among the pool of “better” premed stduents by his grades in most of the prereq classes. Most of these classes in freshman/sophomore years are sizable at most colleges.

Regarding the smaller top private vs large public schools: Somebody told me that if you go to a smaller top private school and choose to major in some large major (biology is large, chemistry or physics is smaller), you actually give up some benefit of going to such a school. This is because most of the classes in the first few years would be large and test-centric (i.e., the format is more like that in the science classes in a large competitive high school except that they may be more intense. But those from the large public high school do not have much to “adjust” when they major in such a test-centric major at a top private if they choose such a major.)