looking for good resonable pre med colleges near oregon state.
Technically, any college can be fine for pre-med. Earn top grades. Study and do well on the MCAT. Secure strong recommendations. Do interesting things and get involved. Pre-med is brutal, but it’s much more of a performance issue (grades, test scores) than anything else, and this is true for graduate school in general as well.
If having access to a medical school during your undergrad years is important, you might choose a flagship that has a university hospital. You might also assess what sort of school is the type that best suits your learning style. For instance, lots of students overlook small liberal arts colleges even though such schools provide certain students with the one-on-one help and guidance that they need since they are not 1 of 150 in an entry-level chemistry class. Others prefer the size, facilities, and offerings of large public universities. If you search around enough, you should be able to find information about schools that are notorious for weeding out pre-med students.
Takeaway: focus more on the overall type of school you’d like to attend and hit the ground running. Pre-med is not a major, and as far as I know there aren’t any famous “pre-med schools.” And have a backup plan! I wish you the best, but the ground is littered with the bones of once hopeful pre-med students who switched to something else.
How do you define “reasonable”?
Besides Oregon State itself, college near Oregon State include University of Oregon and Portland State.
For pre-med, consider cost (avoid debt and save money during undergraduate, because medical school is expensive, and even applying to medical school costs thousands of dollars). But also consider accessibility of pre-med extracurriculars (volunteering in medical contexts and service to the poor/disadvantaged/needy). Travel convenience to your in-state public medical schools and others of interest can help if you get to the interview stage during medical school applications. More grade inflation would also be helpful.
good and affordable
What can you and your family afford to pay each year for college?
A lot of universities have very good premed programs. Premed classes at the University of Oregon or at Oregon State University are going to be very demanding.
Based on some students who are at comparable public universities in other states, I have heard quite a few reports of midterm exams with class averages of 50 or less.
If your budget and your high school grades and test scores make this practical, it is best to go to a university where you can get a very high GPA while avoiding debt for your bachelor’s degree. U of O and OSU are going to be plenty strong enough to help to prepare you for the MCAT and to help you get into medical school.
You also need experience in a medical / hospital environment. Thus “consider accessibility of pre-med extracurriculars” is exactly right.