Wesleyan for Pre-Med?

gallentjill
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 01:01:05 +0000

Congrats on being accepted to Wesleyan! Wesleyan is clearly an excellent, prestigious and well respected school. But if your passion is truly medicine, you might want to consider the free option if it is a solid, reputable choice that sends significant numbers of kids to medical school. Although you will here debate about this, most people agree that the prestige of your undergrad institution has little if any impact on whether or not you will be accepted to medical school. What matters are your GPA, MCAT score and your ECs (research, clinical work, community service, leadership). Consider going where you will get the best GPA and save money.

Medical school is also insanely expensive and you will want to save money on undergrad if possible. The less debt the better. You didn’t mention which in-state schools you are considering. If you want better advice, let us know your other choices as well.