Southern Oregon U??? How to weigh factors?

mom2collegekids
Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:27:44 +0000

*73% acceptance rate of Chemistry majors to Medical School
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The percent accepted to Med school is not a reliable metric for determining if a school provides good premed academics, counseling, etc

This is true. That percentage does not take into account the large number of students who start out as chem pre-med, but later change majors or change their minds about applying to med school because their cumulative GPA, their science GPA, and/or their MCAT isn’t high enough.

I think many would say it’s safe to say that 60-75% of students who start out as “pre-med”, never apply to med school because of various reasons.

So…if you have 200 pre-med freshmen, it’s likely that only about 75 students will ever apply to med school. So, the 72% would be in regard to the 75 that apply…not the 200 who initially declared to be pre-med.

Pre-med students are heavily weeded out…it’s like the TV show " Survivor".

Does your D already have her GED? If not, she should wait to get that so that she can apply as an “incoming frosh”…even if she has CC credits. She can get more money that way.

She should also avoid taking any pre-med pre-reqs at her CC.