uPenn vs Middlebury

panthergrad09
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:27:51 +0000

I think it went pretty well for most everyone. A lot of people actually take some time off to work or do TFA and such things before starting, so the majority of people from my program that I talked with haven’t gone through the process yet. Those that have, though, have ended up in some pretty awesome places! One is currently a Marshall scholar in London who will complete a PhD there and then come back and finish up at NIH before completing his MD, another is in an MD-PhD program (I forget where, but all of those are extremely competitive), another is in med school at Yale, another applied this year and got accepted everywhere that she applied (yale, duke, colombia, ucsf, uw, stanford, etc). Basically, most people have their choice of places to go. Med school is most definitely harder than grad school, just because med school is more competitive, but in my experience, students who apply themselves and come out of Midd having done well can generally get into some of their top choices. I think that there’s a good deal of support for pre-med students, in terms of guidance. I was never pre-med so I don’t have any personal experience, but I know that there is someone whose job it is to prepare and help students with that whole process.