I’ll give my free advice. Your student can be “premed” at just about any four year college in this country, arts conservatories excluded.
Right now, their goal should be choosing an undergrad college where they will be happy to be for four years. Happy students tend to do better than unhappy ones, and your student will need to be at the top of their game IF they apply to medical school someday.
But find a place with many options just in case this student changes their mind as most premed intention freshmen do.
And yes, if medical school is a consideration, I would consider undergrad costs. Even now without the pending bill, medical schools are largely funded with loans and/or the bank of mom and dad. Just something to consider.
And, depending on the school, no application, means no inclusion in the statistics. What’s really important is the percentage of first time freshmen who are pre-med that actually get in. I don’t believe it’s a common statistic to capture though. The numbers would be far lower.
It is not a good school for premed, as it is brutally competitive. More than a premed pressure cooker than nearly every other Uni. Definitely no value for teh OOS fees.
Oxford @ Emory woudl be a sleepy existence for two years, unless you were advanced in math or science, in which case you;d be schlepping to the main campus by bus for a course or two.
Hopkins has Ivy-level need-based aid thanks to Bloomberg. And it has finally got with the grade-inflation program. That said, well over a quarter of entering undergrads, if not more, are thinking premed and clearly they all don’t make it.
GW is fine for those that like the urban, no real campus setting. But it won’t boost your app to med school any more than doing well at your instate flagship.
Whatever is instate for you, is the best premed school for you.
This is incorrect, Emorys premed acceptance rate is 85% for students who receive a committee letter, and 65% for all premed students.
For Johns Hopkins its the same percentage for both groups.
That suggests that the JHU pre-med committee is very selective in whom it will support for a committee letter, while the Emory pre-med committee is somewhat selective in this respect.
Basically, their pre-med committees will advise those with lower chance of admission not to bother applying.