<p>I'm looking at Johns Hopkins and UPenn, but what are some places you think have the best pre-med programs? Best out of the ivies?</p>
<p>I'm really leaning towards Johns Hopkins right now</p>
<p>Check out the Pre-Med forum where there is a ton of threads on this.</p>
<p>I think this actually is the appropriate place to post a topic like this...</p>
<p>There's a giant thread on 'good pre-med schools' up at the top of the threads page you should look at. As far as Penn vs. Hopkins goes, I think Penn has the edge in terms of the overall strength of the undergrad program, being much less cutthroat than a place like Hopkins, not having an applicant screen like Hopkins does, and I believe a lower average undergrad GPA for acceptance to med school (though I cannot be sure of this). Of the ivies, Penn is easily the most geared towards premeds, and has a very strong infrastructure as far as the application process goes (of course I'm biased). Duke and Stanford are also places to look seriously at if you're interested in places like Penn and Hopkins (meaning very pre-professional schools).</p>
<p>go where you can get the highest gpa and where you'll be happiest (those to factors are intertwined)</p>
<p>Hopkins is probably the worst of the schools mentioned above to go for premed. Many students are just miserable there and it has a very cut throat atmosphere. The school is also more interested in atracting more non-premeds!</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown and Stanford have the highest numbers of premeds who get admitted to med school (above 92%).</p>
<p>actually when I was a junior in HS, my family and I visited Hopkins</p>
<p>When we were taking the tour we walked by the dorms and some kids from their windows yelled "don't come here, its horrible here!!"</p>
<p>The general consensus is that life in JHU is just miserable. My friend is a Mechanical Engineer there and hates it there.</p>
<p>well JHU isn't ALL that bad... it's just that everyone there is a pre-med (and not by any means a laid-back pre-med). It's just competitive there; doing stuff that would make you stand out at any other school isn't so special at hopkins (since everyone is doing it too). Another thing to consider is your major. I got in as a BME major... BME + pre-med + hopkins = bad news haha. Oh, and I hear that it gets so cutthroat that people actually try to sabotage your labs and stuff like that, but that's just hearsay.</p>
<p>Stanford is not above 92% -- they're actually in the low 70s. Regardless this isn't the best number to use. (In other measures, Stanford performs excellently.)</p>
<p>You have to be careful about schools that boast high medical school acceptance rates because alot of them will just boot you out of the program if they dont believe you will have a good chance for making it, that way they can have really high numbers and get more kids.</p>
<p>Look at Goucher college in maryland, it have like 2000 kids and no ones heard of it, its website brags somthing like over the post 6 years it has sent 100% of its premeds to american medical schools. Don 't get me wrong, its a good school, but still, you need to be careful and look past the numbers.</p>
<p>bluedevilmike, are u sure about Stanford?...HYP and Brown boast that they are one of the top 5 schools and they are above 92%...I thought I had read that Stanford was the other one but the low 70% would not cut it....</p>
<p>1.) Stanford does not post their statistics online, but does make them available to Stanford students as well as post-admission prospective Stanford undergrads. One such "prospie" was debating between Stanford and Duke and showed me the piece of paper that he was given by Stanford. It was yellow with black font; there were several little boxes, one of which indicated that Stanford's percentage was around 76%.</p>
<p>2.) Celestial605, a current Stanford student, confirms here in post #55: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=231800%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=231800</a></p>
<p>Duke has about an 85% admission rate</p>