Hey guys, thanks for taking your time to read/reply to my post. I’m a senior from an international school in Myanmar(Burma), and I have recently been admitted into my top choices university - Tulane, Tufts, UCLA and Georgetown. I’m having a really hard time choosing between those four amazing schools. scratches head I’m going for Biological Sciences major with premed track in all 4 schools and I want to go to a med school after my 4 year undergrad. However, I know it is like really really really hard for international students to go into US med schools with an average acceptance rate of 1%. I know all these 4 schools have amazing support for premed and Tulane has this creative premed scholars program which would guarantee a spot in their med school even for intl students if they make it into the program, excites, but it’s a risk. If I decided not to be a sci major anymore, I need to choose a college which has great support for other majors too. So I really hope you guys can give me some of your wise insights on the college decision I make. flies away Thank youu
@kenosaur
Actually the Creative Pre-med Scholars Program is only for non-science majors. I don’t know how that might affect your decision making process.
Tufts offers an Early Assurance program for their med school (apply sophomore year). I’m not sure if it is easier or not for internationals to get in that way though.
FYI
http://college.usatoday.com/2014/09/13/top-%C2%AD%C2%AD%C2%AD10-colleges-for-a-major-in-biology/
Only Tufts on this list.
Personally, I find lists like that completely ridiculous. The rankings were based on subjective and incomplete data (Payscale is self-reported and incomplete data), and at the undergraduate level mean almost nothing. How different do you really think what they teach regarding biology is at Stanford, Tufts, or Tulane? Or Georgetown and UCLA for that matter. The description for Tufts bio majors
can be identically applied to Tulane, as can most of the descriptions for the various schools. Undergrad major requirements for bio, chemistry, physics, etc. are usually very similar. The difference is where do you like it best (or are most likely to) and where are you most likely to get real research experience. Any specialized programs like Creative Pre-medical Scholars so that you can in fact major in history and have a potential path into med school based on that, or Tufts early assurance, are obviously worth considering.