Which Medical School is better?

Standingout
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:21:27 +0000

Wow, man, you must seriously be an ambitious and driven person. However, I think you are approaching your future in a wrong way. I can absolutely guarantee you that your opinion/future goals/etc will change at least a bit in college (if not a lot). Put from a psychological perspective, this is because, as people gain more knowledge about the subject, they tend to change their path to something that fits them better. Remember that it is YOURSELF AND NOT the med school which matters. The med school is simply this boost factor that allows you to go forward with your goals. Thus, I think the best advice to your post is to find out more about yourself, cardiology (especially cardiology), the field of medicine, and possibly med school admissions.

Any of those med schoosl mentioned above will give you a very good direction in what you want to do. That being said, I think that Harvard and JHU are obviously the top choices in general (Harvard is more towards research), if you are not absolutely set in what you want to do in the future. However, let me seriously warn you about the competition. Take a look at this webpage:

https://career.berkeley.edu/medstats/top20.stm

Notice that for Harvard only one got accepted out of 68 who applied, and that person had a 41 MCAT and a 4.00 GPA (and was possibly Hispanic too)–Relatively the same thing for JHU. I don’t want to disappoint you or anything, but I just wanted to stress the emphasis of questioning who you are and what you really want to do. This is because when you’re spending 12 hours a day for several months studying for schools like this, you inevitably will.