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<p>that’s true if you’re comparing to schools like Cornell (71%, <a href=“Career Services | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Career Services | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University) or MIT (94%, [Preprofessional</a> Stats - MIT Careers Office](<a href=“http://www.mit.edu/~career/infostats/preprof.html#med]Preprofessional”>http://www.mit.edu/~career/infostats/preprof.html#med)) 2009 versus Emory (48%) but keep in mind that a good portion of those ~350 emory seniors that applied to med school were oxford transfers and thus really skew the data. Unfortunately emory doesn’t want to make 2 separate charts for emory college and oxford so we don’t know exactly what percentage of those ~350 applicants were oxford transfers.</p>
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<p>I would have to disagree. I’m currently a sophomore pre-med here and having taken or seen my friends take all the pre-med courses makes it clear that they’re by no means a joke and really push students to think critically, which is what the mcat essentially tests. and material-wise, the the only gap i’ve noticed in the basic requisite classes is a lack of anatomy/human phys which is a good portion of the Biological Sciences portion of the MCAT. But if you think about it, it’s not the job of the professors to strictly prepare you for the MCAT, that’s what prep courses from Kaplan and the like are for; the professors really only need to teach you what they think is important in the subject, so in the end it’s more about the student body and not the curriculum that determines the school’s overall mcat schools. Personally I’ve tried to rush the process by taking orgo, physics, and bio my freshmen year and then taking the mcat this summer after some self-studying. I managed to score a decent 34S with at least a 10 in each section after my freshmen year and w/o taking many of the upper level sciences (I’m probably gonna retake next summer cuz I know I can do a lot better).</p>
<p>Put the point is, you definitely shouldn’t put all the burden on the university. The only factor that shouldn’t be in your control is the general “atmosphere” of pre-meds at a university, and at emory here most of them are definitely motivated enough to give you enough incentive to work hard and efficiently.</p>