I’m conflicted on which college to attend if I get accepted to both of them. Will medical schools care about the undergrad institution you go to? And would it be better to get a higher GPA at UGA than get a low GPA at Georgia Tech?
I’m in-state for both colleges, so I basically get Zell Miller to pay tuition.
If you believe that you’d get a better GPA at UGa, then go THERE.
med schools will NOT give you a pass for having a lower GPA from GT…not at all.
I think it depends on which one you like. GT and UGA have very different personalities. Kids do go to medical school from tech but it is harder to have a higher gpa. My d is there as a freshman and is now an engineering major who is considering adding premed
You will not get a pass for having a lower GPA at GT.
But you also do not get a pass on the MCAT either and if you get pulled into the partying scene which many 4.0 students do from high school who were never partiers it can be destroy your GPA at any university. Secondly, what you think you want to do now and what you want to do in several years from now can be vastly different, hence why you should pick the school where you’ll be happiest.
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The acceptance rates should be fairly similar for GTech, Emory and UGA. As is to be expected, Emory and UGA will be sending many more applicants than GTech. For 2014,
UGA - 481
Emory - 386
GTech - 191
https://www.aamc.org/download/321456/data/factstable2-6.pdf
The acceptance rates to Med schools (example 2012)
GTech - 54 %
http://www.prehealth.gatech.edu/content/prospective-student-faqs
Emory - 54% (Emory does a much better job of publishing this info)
http://career.emory.edu/images/parents_images_pdf/2012_med_mcat_gpa.pdf
http://career.emory.edu/images/prehealth_documents/AMCAS 7 Year Composite Matriculate Chart.pdf (2009-2015)
UGA ~ 51-52%
https://premed.uga.edu/about-premedical-studies
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So, to emphasize, despite the low GPAs at GTech, getting into Med school should not be an issue. Most folks studying Engg. are just not interested in applying to Med school. My D2, a sophomore at GTech, knows of a few who are, most them are in the BME stream. My D1, who is in Pitt Med, went thru the more usual route for undergrad focusing on Bio/Math/Chem.
Too bad GT doesn’t list the avg GPA of accepted students to support their argument that med schools appreciate their rigor.
Even without med school which is a crapshoot by most high schoolers heading off to college as they change their mind, mess up a semester or what not GT students do have one thing generally a good job when they graduate.
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What is the acceptance rate of students going into health profession schools?
In 2012, the average MCAT score for an accepted student was 30.2 for Georgia Tech students while nationally the average score for an accepted student was a 29.5. Tech consistently ranks about the national average for acceptance into medical school with 54% of our 2012 applicants gaining acceptance compared to 45% nationwide. The majority of our graduates go to Georgia Regents University, Emory, and Mercer University for medical school, followed by schools such as Johns Hopkins, Duke and Vanderbilt. For other health profession programs, the average trend is that Tech students typically have higher acceptance rates than the national average.
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It appears that there is a huge instate advantage with many GT students being instate and then going to instate SOMs. Since the OP is instate, he’d have that advantage as long as his stats stay strong.
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That is probably very true for E majors. The OP hasn’t listed E as one of his likely majors.