Williams for Pre-med？

Grace
Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:59:02 +0000

This is really interesting. Thank you for all of the information. I think it will help others.

When people ask me about whether Williams is a good place to prepare for medical school, they usually seem to have two concerns:

1) How will medical school admissions people view having prepared not at a university but at a liberal arts college (and at this particular liberal arts college)?

2) Does a small school without graduate departments have the resources that are perceived as necessary for a strong pre-med education (research opportunities, enough specialist professors, a research orientation, state-of-the-art equipment, and so forth). The lack of an associated teaching hospital and the research opportunities it might offer are often mentioned.

I’ve always responded with the > 90% statistic and talked about research opportunities at Williams and the fact that there are lots of research projects going on but no graduate students to hog the plum assignments. I don’t leave it there, but that’s the center of my answer.

I think I need to learn more before I answer quite so cavalierly.