BC vs. Villanova for Pre Med

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston College
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<p>Pros cons please</p>

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<p>BC has a much stronger reputation overall for graduate/professional schools than Villanova.</p>

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<p>BC would be my clear choice for many reasons…</p>

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<p>Find out what the pre-med program’s med school acceptance rates are for each (e.g for Columbia and Fordham the acceptance rate from the pre-med programs was 100%).</p>

<p>This will give you an idea of how the pre med students fare.</p>

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<p>Don’t waste your time. The numbers are highly massaged, and totally worthless.</p>

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<p>Absolutely impossible. (Think about it.)</p>

<p>But to respond to the OP: I concur with medman.</p>

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<p>^I know for a fact that Columbia and Fordham have acceptance rates to medical schools far lower than 100%. Columbia has one of the top acceptance rates in the country, but it hovers around 80-85% each year.</p>

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<p>Columbia may tout that number verbally, but have you ever seen a source document with it printed, medman? Does it include only students who apply after Junior year? (According to the Columbia thread on cc, Columbia premed advisors actively discourage marginal candidates from applying until after they graduate. While perhaps strengthening the app is a good move, it will affect the admit rate of undergrads.)</p>

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<p>AMCAS provides undergraduate institution acceptance rate data–Columbia’s rate is real, but it is for undergraduate seniors, not alumni.</p>

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<p>Are those reports publicly available? I could not find them, or as the old saying, goes, perhaps I’m looking in all the wrong places? lol</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;