Pre-Med Hopkins! Help! Help!

collegiate
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:39:46 +0000

Let me ask you something. Is amherst similar to JHU? is amherst a university with a medical school? I want you to look into the policies of ivy schools. I do however understand your view. The school’s rec cannot by itself exclude you from acceptance from an med school. But at the same token, if you have earned a 3.0 (below JHU’s average GPA), should JHU give the applicant its full support merely because the applicant has paid 40k per year to study there? While some may say yes, this cannot occur as the validity of JHU’s recommendation would be severely compromised. As stated in the article, schools take JHU’s rec very seriously.Once again the institution will not stop you from applying. And those who are likely to apply for the hell of it despite lower gpas are likely not to listen to the advice of these advisors anyways (ive seen it first hand). JHU’s acceptance rate comes not from advisors dissauding such students but because of the difficult premed courses that make premeds honestly assess themselves before the process. Its often heard that 25% of those who start off as premed end up as premed. This is hardly the result of these advisors but as a result of the difficulty of the curriculum at hopkins. In the end no one gets “lucky” when getting in to med schools. Its a thorough process. Those who get in do deserve it as there is a thorough interview process with other factors such as recs and mcat scores taken into account. The bottomline is if one’s dream is to become a doctor and they are easily dissauded by an advisor telling them their chances are low and subsequently drop their pursuit of said dream without internal fortitude, they do not deserve to become a doctor as it is one of the most pressing, challenging, and stressful jobs out there.