Pre-med at Scranton

<p>While I graduated a number of years ago from Scranton, my perspective may still be helpful. My year more than 60 students went to medical school (I believe the numbers are down a bit since then). Anyone who wanted to go to medical school could apply and be considered (this contrasts with another school with a good pre-med rep in PA, Franklin and Marshall, where I was accepted as a premed), although probably 95% were biology majors and we all were in the same science courses We had probably 90 students go to an initial premed orientation as freshman, with ~ 20 or more deciding it wasn’t for them within first semester or year, and the several others as time went passed. Scranton even had a specific physics course for self designated “pre-meds” with the scenarios made medically relevant. Interestingly, when I met with admissions at Pitt for undergrad, they were pessimists and told me that it would be safest to major in engineering so that I could get a decent job if med school didn’t pan out. We got into good schools, the majority in Philadelphia, but some others as well. My year where students went included Pitt (where I went) Penn, Hopkins, Harvard, Jefferson, Georgetown, Temple, Hahneman, NY Med, Columbia, Hershey, etc… After Med School, I went to one Ivy league for Internship and another for Residency and Fellowships. I was on faculty at an Ivy and currently remain successful in academic medicine. You can go anywhre from Scranton!</p>