<p>I'm pretty sure that Baylor College of Medicine is way more prestigious than Brown Medical School. Compare rankings of 10 to 38. Plus BCM is located in the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world.</p>
<p>And I'll always work hard, no matter what.</p>
<p>whenwillitbeover:
True story...friend of my d's, #3 in H.S. class. Set all curves in AP Biology (highest scores on all tests). Pre med at U penn, proud as a peacock. Took freshman Bio, grade C. Now a second year student at law school. You're 95% sure you want to be a doctor. Are you 95% sure you won't wind up like my d's friend??</p>
<p>for the record, drexel med prog blows</p>
<p>msdoc, i agree, that's why I've chosen the med program. but are you implying that your d's friend chose law school b/c she no longer had a shot at med school? or could she have changed her mind?</p>
<p>He felt that if he couldn't get a decent grade in Freshman Bio, he no longer had a chance at med school. After all, the same Penn premeds would probably be in all his other classes as well.</p>
<p>no longer a chance at ANY medical school?? Couldn't he have least gotten in at a very low tier med school, coming from UPenn, if it really was his desire to be a doc?</p>
<p>He didn't give it much thought. Just changed majors and became pre-law. My freshman college roommate did the same thing when he received a "C" in freshman inorganic chemistry. He got an A in a freshman history course that same semester and now 31 years later, he is quite an accomplished attorney in Philadelphia. His exact quote (which I remember vividly) was, "If I can't pull good grades in my pre-med classes, what chance do I have of getting into med school. I better think about what else I want to do." I'm sure every finished doc can tell these same exact stories about friends or classmates who came to college being pre-med, but wound up in a different field due to poor grades in pre-med intro courses.</p>
<p>matricrebloated, why do you think the drexel program is so bad?</p>
<p>which ba/md programs require you to take the MCAts?
Also how hard is it to score 30 on MCAt? This is required by Drexel-so why is called guaranteed med program?
I though guaranteed programs do not require you to take MCAts?</p>
<p>even though it isn't an ivy league school, i've decided to attend Georgetown University as a pre-med doing biomedical research in conjunction with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. i spent a long time deciding b/w VCU's 8yr BA/MD and Georgetown and ended up going the latter route. first of all, Georgetown offered me a very handsome financial aid and scholarship package compared to VCU (im in-state there). also, i never really thought about pursuing the M.D./Ph.D route. the Georgetown-Hughes program gets almost everyone in that program in some sort of M.D./Ph.D program. at first i was blinded only by the ambition of becoming physician through the guaranteed process, being completely narrowminded to the other possibilities out there. sure it's nice to have a guaranteed spot in medical school, but i think one needs to explore his/her options. i never even considered the M.D./Ph.D route until the option presented itself, which was after my acceptance to the BA/MD program. i also think that the portrayal of the cut-throat premed competition is kind of blown out of proportion. besides, i wouldnt want a doctor who was able to skip the most important test to get into medical school to treat me.</p>
<p>just my 2 cents think whatever you wish</p>
<p>Is there really a baylor/baylor BA/MD program? i've heard of rice/baylor, but can't seem to find a link on the internet to any info on baylor/baylor...</p>
<p>Baylor/Baylor program link: Baylor</a> University || Baylor Prehealth Professions || Guaranteed Medical Admissions</p>