USC or UCLA for Pre-Med?

mom2collegekids
Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:59:05 +0000

To the person or persons who think simply having a pre-med advising brochure is enough:

Students aren’t cookie cutters. Advice isn’t one size fits all.

Even the making of the med school app list takes into acct different things. The white male with a balanced MCAT 33 and 3.7 GPA will have a different app list than the AA male with the same stats. An informed advisor will be able to help with that.

Even if a school can’t provide one-on-one premed advising for all premed students, they should be able to provide monthly meetings with topics and open Q&A sessions for those in the early process (first couple of years), and then provide one-on-one advising for those in the last 2 years.