I am a student in the semi-finalist round of Posse NY and I am wondering if anyone attending the partner colleges or knows some further information can share which few would be of greatest interest to me. I am dedicated to pre-med and going to medical school in the future. I am researching them now, the STEM schools seem priority. Any information and opinions would be appreciated. Thank you!
Fortunately the classes required for premed are bread and butter of any decent college, and since you can major in anything you are wide open to choosing schools. I don’t know what a STEM school would be except an engineering school and I wouldn’t recommend that. Many Liberal Arts colleges excel at teaching Bio and Chem.
You can’t assume we all know the colleges for NY Posse so you can either list them or talk about your personal list to get comments. But really this isn’t a financial aid question, it is College Search & Selection since you aren’t discussing how the money works here. Choose a college you will do well in and get top grades. And do head over to the premed forum for discussions on that topic.
I will head over to College Search and Selection and list the schools. Thank you
Some colleges may be more successful than is typical in furthering the goals of their pre-med students. A few of your schools are mentioned in this online list, and perhaps should be given extra consideration: “The Experts’ Choice: Colleges With Great Pre-med Programs.”
Brandeis, Dickinson, F&M, Lafayette, Lawrence, and Smith would be good choices, but the campus environment and atmosphere are quite different. Brandeis and Smith are liberal, Dickinson and Lawrence are moderate, Lafayette and F&M are (relatively) coservative. Some have Greek life, others don’t.
Does your school library have a Fiske Guide or Insider’s Guide to the Colleges or Princeton Review’s Best college?
Middlebury would have the most resources and would be the most prestigious, but not sure it’s the best choice for premed.
What are your current stats?
I am a student in the semi-finalist round of Posse NY and I am wondering if anyone attending the partner colleges or knows some further information can share which few would be of greatest interest to me. I am dedicated to pre-med and going to medical school in the future. I am researching them now. Any information and opinions would be appreciated. I plan to major in computer engineering / science (hobby) while taking pre-med (career).
The colleges offered are :
Babson College
Brandeis Univerisity STEM
DePauw University
Dickinson College
Franklin & Marshall College
Lafayette College
Lawrence University
Middlebury College
Smith College STEM
Trinity College
University of Wisconsin-Madison STEM
Vanderbilt University
Wheaton College
Combined threads with same title and OP
@MYOS1634 “Brandeis, Dickinson, F&M, Lafayette, Lawrence, and Smith would be good choices, but the campus environment and atmosphere are quite different. Brandeis and Smith are liberal, Dickinson and Lawrence are moderate, Lafayette and F&M are (relatively) coservative. Some have Greek life, others don’t.
Does your school library have a Fiske Guide or Insider’s Guide to the Colleges or Princeton Review’s Best college?
Middlebury would have the most resources and would be the most prestigious, but not sure it’s the best choice for premed.
What are your current stats?”
Why do you think Middleburg wouldn’t be a good choicer premed? They have an impressive record of getting students into top Med Programs.
Because med schools don’t care about prestige. They care about GPA. In order to have a top GPA, you need to be in the top 25% of students. So if you are, Middlebury is a great choice because of their resources and network, but if you’re not, your odds of making a top 10% GPA are low. Many students find that too late. Essentially, if you’re fine useing Middlebury as a stepping stone for EITHER med school or something else, then you’re good regardless of stats, but if med school is the ultimate goal, you need to select the school that has the best balance of resources and less competition for top grades. Since we don’t know your stats in relation to the general population of admitted students, it’s impossible to know whether you’re in the top 25% or not, hence the qualification regarding Middlebury.
Colleges do not “get students into top med programs”. First, all American med schools are good and only half applicants get into just one so getting into A medical program (any one) is very good. The “top program” part happens at residency time. Second, what colleges can do is offer resources (good advising, shadowing opportunities, etc) which most colleges listed above would. However, most of it rests with the students - getting a A/A- average in all core courses, keeping in mind premeds to not take their AP math/science credits so they’ve “previewed” their classes and can “frontload” their premed core GPA, etc.