Rank my chances for UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, UMich, Cornell

@Medicine-enthusiast In what way is William & Mary worse for pre-med or biology at the undergraduate level? If you are looking at some graduate school ranking somewhere, you need to remember that you are going to be an undergraduate and not a graduate student. If you look at the number of undergraduates that go on to get biology PhDs (link provided below), which is one significant measure of quality, you would see that a higher percentage of William & Mary undergraduates earn biology PhDs than either UVA or Virginia Tech, and by some margin (about 3X vs. VT and 1.7X vs UVA). If you look at a website like the College Transitions Dataverse Best Colleges for Biology, which is only looking at undergraduate programs, you would see William & Mary is the only school in Virginia listed.

If you are considering pre-med, then you should be looking at pre-med admission rates if you can find it rather than simply assume a school is better because it has a medical school. Again, you will be enrolled in the undergraduate college and not the medical school. Savvy Pre-med has a rating of pre-med schools based on factors they have found to be valuable in their experience as application advisors (pre-med advising, teaching in core areas, class sizes) and William & Mary is the highest ranked public school on the list at 24.

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