What are some good Non-Ivy Pre-Med college programs

[sakky]

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Chemistry Specialties
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<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Northwestern University (IL)</li>
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<p>What exactly is the relevance of this? There’s a big difference between a program that is highly ranked and a program that is difficult (in terms of grading). You can have a highly ranked program that nonetheless gives out easy grades. Stanford and many of the Ivies are well known for having lots of highly ranked departments that are nonetheless grade inflated. </p>

<p>To give you an example. Stanford actually has a higher ranked biology department than does MIT or Caltech. But of the 3, which one do you think grades its undergrads the easiest? I think even most Biology majors at Stanford would concur that their grading is probably easier than it is at MIT or Caltech.</p>

[Biff]

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@sakky

My take is, you can post any opinion you want, but you should be prepared to defend it. A person said that he/she believes the NW OChem program is the 2nd or 3rd best such program in the country. Ok, fine. I would like to see the justification for that. I am sure the original poster would too.

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<p>I’m just replying to your comments.</p>