Warning: all Student considering Premed at Berkeley please read this first

bluebayou
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:08:57 +0000

What do you all think of attending a school that is a private mid tier such as LMU…



Private colleges offer a lot that publics cannot, so if the price is right…of course the downside is that if da boy changes his mind about med school, he has a degree from LMU when he could have had one from the best public in the world.



… that boasts a great health pre-professional program with a 90% plus med school acceptance rate?



They are fudging their numbers, by including DO schools and the Caribbean in the numerator. They are also likely discouraging low stat kids from applying by refusing to give them a rec, and reducing the denominator. (Holy Cross has this practice)