UVA vs GT vs Emory Vs CMU Vs UNC

MYOS1634
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:01:44 +0000

GATech is not a top school if your goal is med school since grade deflation is drastic. I’d cross it out.
If UVA doesn’t come up with sufficient scholarships and it seems you’d know by now or will soon), cross it out: as a premed student, you should minimize expenses. It is however a better choice than GATech regardless of whether you succeed as a premed or not, because grades are on-par with universities this caliber and both BME and McIntyre enjoy great reputations. Only worry, BME is hard to get a 3.6 in (a 2.9/3.0 engineering GPA isn’t bad but nowhere near the 3.6+ you need for med school). On the other hand, if you can find a major where you get A’s consistently + can get high marks in your premed core classes, you’ll be well-served by a UVA degree.
Finally, Emory: do you have a scholarship? Is it within budget? I’d say it’s your best bet if it’s affordable.

Since you’re still in HS, it’s normal you applied as a freshman. Then you’d get “advanced standing” upon admission; not all credits would transfer toward specific university credits, but you’d probably transfer a lot of them, either as electives or as gen eds. Note that the more selective the university, the least likely it is to grant many credits. In addition, it’s HIGHLY recommended you “retake” the last course in a sequence. For instance, let’s imagine you took Calc 1 and 2, Bio 101 and 102, and Chem 101 and 102 at a community college; you should only request credit for Calc1, Bio 101, and Chem 101, because most premeds in the class will have taken it already. You don’t want to skip - you want to guarantee yourself a good grade AND get used to college methodology, so you “retake” Calc 2, Bio 102, and Chem 102. If you took Calc AB, you take Calc 1 in college and don’t ask for the credit. This way you can frontload your GPA and stack up the good grades as a cushion for the really hard classes like orgo, which is deadly.