LACs / Universities for Pre-med

You can do premed anywhere. But if choosing between schools, a big concern is easy access to nearby big city hospitals, if you want to do during the school year shadowing, scribing, research. For that reason alone, tufts over haverford. Premed clubs and advising arent really necessary. You can find out what you need to know with a little poking around on reddit and student doctor. And real world activities look better than clawing your way to the top of some premed club. College is not high school.

Another major consideration is money. Unless your family is so wealrhy that 800k is nothing, or so poor that youd quallfy for enough grant fin aid to bring your cost down to that of in state pu blc, you need to consider cost, which prob means attending your in state flagship. Also, GPA means a lot. A 4.0 from a lesser college, with a great mcat score, might get you into med school when a 3.5 from any of the schools you have mentioned might not.

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