In another thread you were leaning toward LACs like Haverford or Davidson. You also mentioned W&M. Those schools as well as UVA, Tufts, CMU and BC can get you to med school. However, to have the most likely path to success, you need to be definitely in the top half, more ideally in the top quarter of students at your pre-med institution. How to assess this is tricky: you can try looking at pre-test optional SAT ranges, for example, and see where your scores put you compared to peers. The rigorous courses most likely to “weed out” premeds areChemistry, Organic chemistry, and other Stem classes. You need more As than Bs in stem classes especially, to be competitive for med school, and many of these premed weed outs are “curved” such that the mean is a B: so you may need to be a standard deviation above the mean to be in A- range. Pick a school where getting a standard above the mean is doable, based on where you stack up compared to the average freshmen. For some kids that would be any school in the country, even the most competitive, yet for others it is wise to dig into the data and go to a school where the odds of you being in the top quarter are high.
CMU for example is filled with highly intelligent stem students so may have more competition than others on your list.
Then also consider class size: some people thrive in smaller classes and struggle in large intro classes: since the weed-out premed courses are often large intro classes, this won’t be a good fit for some. UVA has huge intro classes, maybe others on your list too. I think you should do more investigating before you ED, and maybe ED is not the right choice for you.
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