<p>I’m a college freshman at the University of Iowa, I’m currently enrolled in both the Business and Pre-Medical programs here. I’m a very intense person, and I love to interact with people.</p>
<p>However I’m really not enjoying the “big campus” life, I would rather have a more focused and less statistically distorted academic experience. I’m also trying to branch out beyond the Midwest, I’ve lived here for the better duration of my life and I’d really like to attend school somewhere in the east.</p>
<p>I’m not necessarily looking for an insanely prestigious school or a really lax one - I’m hoping to hit somewhere in the grey between that contrast.</p>
<p>I’m having a hard time locating the resources that allow me to search with my given criteria so I decided to place it on these forums to see if someone else could be of assistance.</p>
<p>Needs:</p>
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<li>Small Private College (One that awards a sizable amount of gift-based financial aid is definitely a plus but not required [Enrollment between 500 and 5,000 preferable… There are several college I know of that have enrollments of around 10k and consist of several small colleges; which I wouldn’t mind.])</li>
<li>Pre-Medical program (some institutions often refer to it as health sciences)</li>
<li>Business Management/Administration program (very common)</li>
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<p>Wants:</p>
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<li>Suburban setting (I would really like to have access to my own personal motor vehicle as opposed to a monopolizing bus system)</li>
<li>College located in the east (MA,CT, NJ, PA, ETC - MA would be my primary choice)</li>
</ul>
<p>F&M in Lancaster PA has a great reutation as a pre-med college and is one of the few top 50 liberal arts colleges to have a business program. It is academically intense. There are a number of Pre-med/Business majors. I’ve met two students who got into med school, but went took corporate jobs instead.</p>
<p>I have never taken the ACT’s or the SAT’s. The short long of it is I had some very bad chronic pain issues in High School and I made it to school and worked enough to learn and do well on my exams…However homework was 80% of the grade and it just wasn’t possible for me to complete such amounts of work.</p>
<p>Senior year (last year) I resolved those issues, and after some rigorous and fairly successful credit recovery I opted to just drop and take my GED. For my state I ended scoring in the high 90 percentile earning me the “equivalence” rating of top 10% in a traditional high school. This alone got me into the major universities I applied for. For this first semester at Iowa I’ll probably tie out at around 3.75 or higher depending on how my finals go. Thus what I’m looking at is transfer criteria, and many colleges have some nice merit padding for decent grades.</p>
<p>I haven’t met many people who are in the same situation as me so it’s really hard to create a standard profile for myself when my academic parameters are defined so differently.</p>
<p>I’m looking for a somewhat intense and more personalized academic experience, I don’t need to go to a real fancy prestigious school but at the same time I want one thats reputable. I want to be challenged by my peers and classmates, but I don’t want it to be so intense that it creates a dichotomy between my classmates and my friends…</p>
<p>Holy Cross (has accounting and good pre-med); Clark U. (economics and good pre-med). U of Vermont, U New Hampshire, U Maine, U Rhode Island. Fordham. Providence. Union College (NY).</p>
<p>Well it’s tricky…technically pre-med isn’t a major - it’s just a direction…nothing more nothing less. A lot of individuals major in a natural science like biology, bioengineering, genetics, etc. I’m a cautious person by nature, and being such I’d like to have a more versatile degree than that of a natural science degree (for my BA).</p>