Premed - UM, FSU, or USF?

califa
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:22:12 +0000

Wait until you see if you get scholarships from any of them and then decide. As others have posted, UM is expensive and you don’t want to go into debt for undergrad when medical school is so expensive.

There are some drawbacks to UM besides cost. The premed advising is not very good, and the weedout hard science classes are brutal. On ratemyprofessor it says that Orgo is set up so that 40% of students have to retake Orgo.

There are opportunities for undergrad research and internships everywhere, and also good summer programs, like doing a summer abroad helping in a developing country would look good. And MCAT scores depend on your studying for it at least as much as on the classes you’ve taken.

Wait to hear about financial aid that doesn’t involve loans and then decide. Good luck!