<p>My son has been accepted to pre-med programs at Tulane University, Syracuse, American, UMass at Amherst, and Rutgers. His first choices are Tulane and Syracuse. We would love opinions and guidance regarding which college offers the better reputation and higher acceptance rate for acceptance to medical school. This seems to be avery difficult decision, and would love any help making a final decision!</p>
<p>I personally know nothing specific about those schools, but either would be fine for pre-med. Is your son accepted into some sort of combined BS/MD program or just the regular schools? Pre-med usually isn’t (and shouldn’t be chosen even if it is offered) as a major. He can major in anything he likes as long as he fulfills the prerequisites for med school. The best choice of school would be the one he will feel happiest attending. This can be a factor of size, location, programs offered, sports, etc. If this is equal between both schools, go with whichever gives you a better financial deal.</p>
<p>EDIT: Seeing you are looking for acceptance rates, I am assuming your son will be a regular college student. I wouldn’t advise you base much of the decision on acceptance rates when you are choosing a college. Colleges can manipulate the information to tell you what you want to hear. For instance, the school with 95% of its students being accepted into med school may fail to mention that the figure is based only off students their pre-med committee recommends. This committee may only recommend the most qualified students they are fairly sure will get into at least one medical school. Because of this, the numbers are much higher than the actual percentage of kids that get accepted. It is much more important to be happy at the school you go to than to go to what you believe will get you into med school easier (this isn’t to say you won’t be happy because you are going to a school you think will give you good chances).</p>
<p>If none of that made sense (which I wouldn’t be surprised…seems like I made it longer than it had to be), the bottom line is to go where you will be happy and will succeed.</p>