<p>Most of the good pharmacy schools with good or decent pre-med will be public schools: UNC-Chapel Hill, UMich, Purdue, UPitt, Rutgers, UWisconsin, UKentucky…</p>
<p>I believe you will have to decide if you want to be a doctor or a pharmacist. Once you decide, apply to schools which have pre-med, pre-pharm, or both. I don’t think it’s possible to fulfill both pre-med and pre-pharm requirements together. </p>
<p>To help you started, here are the obvious questions: Do you like more biology or chemistry? What type of work setting would you like: hospital, laboratory, chain of stores, etc.?</p>
<p>^ I really don’t want to go to a public university. And I don’t want to go to a school based on a major I’ll probably end up changing.</p>
<p>But honestly, I like all science except for physics. And I would definitely prefer a hospital or chain of stores because I like interacting with people.</p>
<p>I would completely disagree that Hopkins is not sports-minded. It is, in fact, very sports-minded. The blue jays are looked upon with great pride, and although a division 3 school in all sports but lacrosse (division1), most sports sit at the top of their division. And of course Hopkins lacrosse is often #1 in the country.</p>
<p>Stanford, off the top of my head, sounds like a match for you. They recruit minority athletes rigorously, from what I’ve heard. The weather is amazing and you’ll be hooked after a semester. The academics are stellar in everything from statistics to computer science, including an excellent medical center and psychology department, and the student body is ethnically, socio-economically diverse and chock full of talented, inspiring individuals.</p>
<p>Stanford also gives some astounding aid. If your family makes less than 60K a year, you pretty much ride free.</p>
<p>That’s a very flash-in-the-pan evaluation of course, but Stanford is an opportunity not to be missed. You might contact anyone you know in college to see what they say, since college students hear a lot of about schools in general.</p>
<p>lj, Swarthmore seems to be the odd-man-out on your list. If you are indeed considering small liberal arts colleges as well as medium and large universities, you might look at Williams as well. Williams has very strong sports programs and excellent sciences and psychology. It’s quite competitive but I’m sure you’d be a person of interest.</p>
<p>ladyjacket, unlike an earlier poster, I think you might prefer Princeton or the like to a more intensely sports-oriented school. It’s difficult to be a Div 1 basketball player and also be pursuing a rigorous major at an academically top school, because the time demands are crazy. Ivy League sports tend to be a little less intense, and the student-athletes are students first and athletes second.</p>
<p>So you’re like the party-goer who always stays sober and drives the rest of your friends home? Except we’re talking about a cluster of nerds, and you’re the one who can talk to the parent, the good-looking guy/gal, whatever, while the rest of your friends are staring at their shoes? </p>
<p>I think you should go to the University of Chicago. You’d be like a social C3PO in every gathering of misfits. Not all jerky, bug-eyed and gold, of course. But probably very popular.</p>
<p>“If you are indeed considering small liberal arts colleges as well as medium and large universities, you might look at Williams as well. Williams has very strong sports programs and excellent sciences and psychology.”</p>
<p>Williams does sound like a perfect fit. Cold, great academics and a sporty campus.</p>
<p>Williams is very nice. It also, on top of everything else, has a beautiful campus. </p>
<p>How about Notre Dame? Not sure if it was mentioned. It has everything you’re looking for. You have the “big sports school” atmosphere without having the public school size. It’s in the Big East for basketball, and that school has a lot of pride in it’s sports.</p>
