<p>I suffer from PTSD the initial stress from school made my flashbacks occur a lot more often, and I lost a lot of sleep because of it.</p>
<p>Caltech or Duke for pre-med?</p>
<p>What is good major for pre-med?</p>
<p>Anything that your kid that wants to do except engineering (debated because it is doable but risky), and vocational majors.</p>
<p>He was thinking a biology major or psych…
Any other idea?</p>
<p>Why not engineering? Is it because it is a very difficult major to do well in?</p>
<p>^Yes. Your major will not generally be taken into account, so a major that notoriously fails people out is probably not a wise one to pick.</p>
<p>I have always wanted to pursue a career in medicine. I spent my four years in high school working my hardest to build the perfect resume that would get me into the perfect college to then go to an amazing medical school and fulfill my aspirations. I got A’s and only a few B’s throughout high school, scored average-above average on my SATS and participated in several extra curricular. I was the president of 6 clubs, the founder of Future medical leaders of America at my high school and won several honorable awards. With much confidence and hope I sent in my college application to 18 schools only a couple months ago. To my surprise and great disappointment my dreams were shattered as I was rejected by all of the ivies I had applied to, wait listed at Wesleyan and Boston College, and accepted to Boston University, Smith College and UMASS. Two of which were my safety schools. I wanted to do premed at a great school that would help me achieve my goals but as I see it now, this is far out of reach. I must pick between the three colleges I have been accepted to, even though I dislike them all very much and never saw them in my future. I would like the best, accurate advice as to where I should go to do Pre Med. Anywhere that would get me into a decent medical school. Thanks for reading! Please help me.</p>
<p>^ Any of these schools will get you into a “decent medical school”. What matters is what you do in college, not where you do it. Pick the school you think will make you the happiest, get good grades, do well on the MCAT, get shadowing, volunteering, clinical skills, and research, you’ll be good to go.</p>
<p>so I got in to pre-med at both Syracuse University and UMass, Amerhest. I have visited both schools, loved both campuses, and have a great package from Syracuse and a nearly complete package to UMass. I am so pleased but can not decide. I think I want pre-med but am not 100% sure so I also need to consider that as well. Any advice from anyone would help me and my family.</p>
<p>@ dreamer6060. keep your head up man. same situation with me. got waitlisted at the 5 ivies that i expected at least one acceptance from. ended up at tufts which i never, ever even expected, and so far it has been great. the cream will always rise to the top, and you will excel wherever you go - dont be discouraged, even though i know its pretty much impossible not to be from experience. after a few months youll get over it and love where you end up</p>
<p>USC or Tulane w/ Honors for premed? and why?</p>
<p>Screw honors, its too much work.</p>
<p>dreamer6060,
Take it easy. UG does not matter if you plan to go to Med. School. Some kids just go to cheapest, do their best and enter Med. School loan free. Keep in mind that you will be challenged greatly at ANY place and will have to work extremely hard to get high GPA reguired for Med. School. It depends much more on you and what you are doing at college, than the UG that you will be attending. Whatever you decide, I wish you the best.</p>
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<p>One secret of highly successful pre-meds: sometimes, honors courses are easier than their regular counterparts.</p>
<p>^D’s Honors has not been too much work and her Honors courses were not easier either. As of now, she needs 1 more credit hour to complete her Honors requirements. Overall it has been a lot of opportunities, Merit scholarships and Grant for her project at Med. Research Lab at school based on her proposal (good point on her application) from Honors. The biggest advantage was priority registration, especially important for her, since she has 2 minors. Since she was always able to schedule her classes, one positive outcome was no need to take summer classes. Will graduate on time with light schedule in senior year that she filled with filler classes and no single summer class.</p>
<p>My son got in to YALE and Princeton. Which one is good for pre-med?</p>
<p>Yale students tend to have a greater success rate in medical school admissions.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you. But to mommy23 or whoever said they got into tufts, tufts is a GREAT school. It may not be an ivie but its definetly a lot better than the colleges I was accepted to. I decided to go to Boston University in the fall because of the city and stuff. I guess I’ll just have to make the best out of it. Thanks for the support everyone!</p>
<p>haha ^ thanks. i know a couple of people from BU and it is great as well. being in boston is completely worth it and i wouldn’t change it for anything. and exactly, once you make the best of it, it’s impossible not to fall in love with.</p>