<p>So I am going to Exeter next year, and I am going to work really hard to get into a Med school. Apparently Harvard is the best, but how is Oxford or Cambridge? What are the pros and cons of going to an Ivy for pre-med or med vs a non-ivy really good school (U-Penn, U. Washington St Louis, etc)?</p>
<p>The last time I checked, UPenn was an Ivy…</p>
<p>But really, I don’t think undergraduate matters that much. As for the “Ivy” title: there’re a lot of great schools not in the Ivy - the “Ivies” are merely a groups of schools established early on that joined together as an athletic league. The title itself didn’t even have anything to do with academics.</p>
<p>where you go for undergrad…especially for premed doesn’t matter so much. Just try to get into somewhere decent so you won’t end up in unnecessary debt…</p>
<p>Most flagship schools are strong in that area (even mine which in the UMN).</p>
<p>You could also look into Duke.</p>
<p>This is a 9th grader asking where they should go to college?</p>
<p>Premeds are so crazy…</p>
<p>I think seven year medical school guarantee programs are wonderful, but they’re extremely selective, especially the really popular ones. I would look into those too.</p>
<p>Wait… you’re going to Exeter in the fall… so you’re not even in high school yet? </p>
<p>Oxford and Cambridge don’t really have premed programs. They have “Medicine” programs where you can become a doctor right away after you graduate (so it’s like there’s no undergrad and you go straight to med school after high school), but I’m not sure how a degree from them translates when practicing in the US… but if you wanted to stay in the UK forever, then that seems like a good option. (Otherwise, I think you’d have to retake the boards once you move back here, which is a real pain.) I mean, I guess you could major in Bio or something at Oxford, but they’re really big on like, making their students focus on one area only, so you might not be able to fulfill the other premed requirements. And the advising probably wouldn’t be the same?</p>
<p>Yeah, I really don’t think you should go to medical school in the UK. You could (I think) do a science undergrad in the UK and then come back to the States for med school, but going to the UK for your medicine will make it really hard to get a residency in the states…</p>
<p>Well, you won’t need much planned because of the 2012 tragedy that will occur.</p>