<p>I've read all of the forums about what makes up a "good pre-med school" (low grade deflation, prestige, low cost or high scholarships, etc.) Now I have researched which schools follow these guidelines. However, I am not sure if they are prestigious enough to warrant leaving home for.
These schools are the University of Michigian, USC, Emory, and Brown. Anyone have any good ideas on this?</p>
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What bdm said. But those are great schools.</p>
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Merit aid at USC and Emory for top performers. If you are OOS for Michigan, none of these schools could even jokingly be called “low cost”.</p>
<p>Michigan has the Shipman scholarship which was a full ride (the award amount may have changed), again for top performers both IS & OOS. B will give you good need based FA if you fit their low income policy.</p>
<p>While all of these are great schools, if you’re looking to gain ‘prestige points’ when applying to Med school, I don’t think that any of these fall into the 10 or so colleges that would do that for you.</p>
<p>Where is “home”?</p>
<p>[ *] SAT: none
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): 750 Chem, 770 Literature, 780 Math
[ *] ACT: 34 (35 CR, 34 Math, 35 Writing, 30 Science, 10)
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.9-3.97</p>
<p>Your stats are good enough for perhaps some merit from USC and some from UMich (don’t know how much). I know that you’re also looking at some UCs as an OOS student.</p>
<p>Hey, OP. </p>
<p>1) Great ACT composite but you could take it again if ya want. 
I bet you did the same thing on science my kid did (only she did even worse by missing every question in a section about some dewpoint graph she failed to read thoroughly). Science is Science Reading, not Science Knowledge. It ain’t that hard once you realize everything needed to answer the question is given to you. You just have to read it. Her 35 made her lots of merit money, lots of places. ;)</p>
<p>2) Are you in line for NM? Really helps for $ at USC.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Since he didn’t take the SAT, I’d say that he wasn’t a NMSF.</p>
<p>That doesn’t mean he didn’t take the NMSQT, does it? lol. </p>
<p>I’m assuming the OP is a junior if they asking these questions at this stage. ;)</p>
<p>Go to Emory if you only have to pay 30-35K a year. Most state schools are 20K a year, so I think that extra 10-15K a year is justified for Emory. However, if you have to pay the full 50K a year for Emory, its not worth it.</p>
<p>As far as prestige goes, Brown is def. A LOT more prestigious than either of the other schools. IMO, Brown is worth the 50K a year.</p>
<p>Id disagree with colleges re paying more than fifty thou a year for a prestigious undergrad degree. If you’re high school now, or even an undergraduate underclassman, you probably have no concept of what it means to be taking on nearly a hundred thousand dollars in debt for medical school. In my opinion it is extremely irresponsible to take on substantial undergraduate debt with plans to attend medical school. There is no reason to be in debt up to your eyeballs when it is perfectly possible to get into medical school, and be a very competitive applicant at that, coming from a state school. My school barely cracks top one hundred and even then its never for very long. Thanks to getting involved and setting myself up for a competitive candidacy, applying to medical school has even been, dare i say it, kind of fun.</p>
<p>Save your money for med school and focus your energy on figuring out if medicine is right for you while you’re an undergrad!</p>
<p>*That doesn’t mean he didn’t take the NMSQT, does it? lol. </p>
<p>I’m assuming the OP is a junior if they asking these questions at this stage*</p>
<p>Oh, is he a junior? I was thinking that he was a senior which is why I said what I did.</p>
<p>If he is a junior with a high PSAT, then that would be a good thing…and he’d need to take the SAT in the future.</p>
<p>chemlove…what did you get on the PSAT? And, what state are you in?</p>
<p>***In my opinion it is extremely irresponsible to take on substantial undergraduate debt with plans to attend medical school. **There is no reason to be in debt up to your eyeballs when it is perfectly possible to get into medical school, and be a very competitive applicant at that, coming from a state school. My school barely cracks top one hundred and even then its never for very long. Thanks to getting involved and setting myself up for a competitive candidacy, applying to medical school has even been, dare i say it, kind of fun.</p>
<p>**Save your money for med school **and focus your energy on figuring out if medicine is right for you while you’re an undergrad! *</p>
<p>I completely agree. And, even if attending a pricey school doesn’t mean debt, if it means spending parents’ money which could instead go to med school, then the argument still stands.</p>
<p>Our son was accepted to some pricey elites that would have cost us “full freight”. Instead, we told him that if he accepted a big scholarship at a state flagship, we’d help pay for med school. His scholarship is full tuition plus $4500 per year, so we end up paying about $7k per year for his undergrad…very little!..and he’s in the priciest housing, with a private room. He’ll graduate from undergrad debt free, and depending on which medical school he attends, he will graduate with a lot less debt because of our contribution.</p>
<p>For econ and sociology, go to Brown (if you have the $ and could thrive in the culture); mean gpa of 3.6+ – what’s not to love?. Emory has small classes in premed courses. </p>
<p>Even tho Cal is highly ranked in both departments, paying OOS prices at a UC is beyond foolish. Ditto Michigan, but somewhat less competitive than Cal/UCLA.</p>
<p>USC has a LOT of gunners in its premed classes; competition is almost as fierce as the top UCs.</p>
<p>home is colorado.
i randomly bombed the writing section of the psat so I dont think I will get NM. </p>
<p>From what I have read here, it looks like none of these schools are prestigious. Therefore I will probably just go to my state school. Thanks everybody.</p>
<p>So, you’re choice will be Colorado Boulder?</p>
<p>if you have a desire to go out of state, then you will have some other schools with similar costs since your stats are high enough for merit.</p>
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Ya know, I don’t think anybody said that. In fact, I’m sure nobody said that.</p>
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Ya know, I don’t think anybody said that. In fact, I’m sure nobody said that.</p>
<p>Post #5 and #11.
Also, no one would say that they were prestigious at all either (except someone mentioned Brown.)</p>
<p>5…maybe. She said that they were not in that limited group of ten or so schools that get you points. That’s not really saying they are not prestigious, is it? And 11 doesn’t even come close to saying that. And in my #3, I said they were great schools. I’ll now say it more clearly. They are prestigious schools. </p>
<p>I think what you may have been asking is …does mere attendance at these schools automatically boost my med school app? If asked that way, I think most folks would respond…No. Harvard? Yale? Princeton? Stanford? Duke? (and maybe a few more that folks might argue about) I think the answer would be different. I think that may have been what you meant by
To me that answer could be yes, depending on a whole host of other factors ($ being one of them). </p>
<p>It could be that you meant to ask “are they prestigious enough to spend an extra $150-200K on when all I want out of my attendance there is a med school app boost?” Well, a chimp could answer that correctly. No. Not hardly. But IMO that would apply to HYP, too . </p>
<p>Now, where’s my banana? ;)</p>