<p>I live in New York and I have gotten into Northwestern, Emory, UCLA, UC Berekely, USC, and Barnard. I was wondering:
which place offers the best preperation for premed?
Which college offers the most research opportunities?
Which college has the most grade inflation (I want a high GPA)?</p>
<p>I doubt Barnard has as many research opportunities as the rest. Usually the largest universities are research based.</p>
<p>Study hard enough and you dont have to worry about having a low gpa. </p>
<p>All six have good premed prep. Just have the GPA, MCAT, clinical experience, and research.</p>
<p>I suspect the CA schools are the weakest of the bunch there. But ASMAJ is right, if you handle things correctly your school isn't that big a deal.</p>
<p>bluedevilmike,</p>
<p>I thought you were saying school *can" be a big deal in your other threads and how schools like Duke has been doing such a great job...etc.</p>
<p>OP,
I don't know about USC/Barnard. But out of the other 4, Northwestern has the highest med school placement rate. According to an exit survey at Northwestern, 90% of those pursuing further study (44% of them were premed) were admitted to one school or more and about 2/3 got into their first choice. </p>
<p>I also called the premed advising at NU couple years ago and the premed advisor told me the placement rate in past 3 years have been fluctuating between the high 70s and low 80s.</p>
<p>Emory, ucla, and ucb have around 50-60% placement rate.</p>
<p>Here's the source for Emory's number: <a href="http://www.career.emory.edu/images/PDF%20Forms/PreMed_Synopsis_2004.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.career.emory.edu/images/PDF%20Forms/PreMed_Synopsis_2004.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sc.edu/usctimes/articles/2001/2001-09/premed_rates_0901.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.sc.edu/usctimes/articles/2001/2001-09/premed_rates_0901.html</a>
USC's rate 6 years ago.</p>
<p>The clause is "if you handle things right". Some schools are much better facilitators of that than others. Of those, I can imagine that NU/Emory/Barnard would be better -- but I don't really know, so I didn't want to say it publicly. In fairness to myself, I did mention that I thought the CA schools would be weakest.</p>
<p>The point is that the "brand" of a school is not the important factor; nor is grade inflation. What matters is their facilitation of things like LORs, application timing, EC's, etc. I didn't know much about those schools and so I was hesitant to comment.</p>
<p>Excellent students, even at very bad schools for those sorts of things, can be admitted to whatever "tier" of medical school they wish -- "if they handle things right".</p>
<p>For example, had I endorsed Emory without knowing the actual statistics, I would be feeling a little embarassed right now.</p>