<p>Anyone know anything about the pre-med program(s) at Vassar? Or the success of med school applicants from Vassar?</p>
<p>I have 2 friends who are doctors who went to Vassar-they do a good job getting students into med school, and like most LACs have a pre-med committee that helps you plan your way, gives practice interviews, reads your essays, etc. There is not, to my knowledge, a “pre-med” major.</p>
<p>I’m a medical student who went to Vassar - and I know many others. Some of us were science majors, some of us were not. Some of us took a few years off between, some of us went straight through. Everyone I know was successful in their application (although I am sure there are people who didn’t get in places, or didn’t apply because they knew they wouldn’t be successful… I just don’t know them). I have met many Vassar grads at my institution, including some from the days Vassar was all women who hold prestigious titles.</p>
<p>There is no pre-med major (and general advice, whatever you do, where ever you go, do not major in pre-med. it is not a discipline of study and it does not have it’s own theory or philosophy. it’s a random collection of courses you need to take to get into med school. I would also be a bit wary of any school that lets you major in pre-med because of that).</p>
<p>Vassar is a great place to be pre-med because there is no pre-med culture. And i don’t mean that people don’t go to med school, because they do. I mean that the science courses aren’t dominated by future doctors, there isn’t any competition between students for grades because of med school, and there aren’t any “weeder classes” - no class is hard simply to stop students from applying to med school en mass (not to say that they aren’t hard, it’s just not about the pre-med students). And most of all, people have the freedom to be more than a pre-med student, to take lots of classes that aren’t in the sciences even if they are a science major, to study abroad, etc. Most people i know in med school say that the worst thing about their college experience were the “pre-meds.” I had none of that.</p>
<p>I’d like to give you a belated “thank you” for that thorough advice. Where are you going to med school? Where are some of the places your friends ended up going?</p>