How is Brown's pre-med program?

wobudong
Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:51:11 +0000

Brown does not have a “pre-med program”. Neither do Harvard, JHU, Wash U, etc. Brown, along with many other colleges and universities, has excellent instruction in the basic sciences required to apply to most medical schools: general chemistry, organic chemistry, calculus, physics and biology.

Do not rely too heavily on medical school admission stats. Many of the schools with lofty stats have huge survey classes that are graded on a c curve and quickly eliminate from contention a high percentage of very bright students. Don’t know about Brown in that regard, but I suspect that that 85% number includes the 60 or so PLME’s who were admitted to med school before they arrived.