<p>Im a junior and I want to become a Doctor or a Dentist. I haven't decided which yet. I live in Texas and I really want to go IS college for pre med just cuz it'll be less of a burden on my parents. So what colleges in Texas have the best pre med courses? UT? Baylor? I've heard whatever college you can get better grades to get u into Med. School is the best choice. What do you guys think.</p>
<p>I think Baylor is the better option as far as pre-med goes (from what I’ve heard anyway). My sister was planning to apply there for premed since Baylor has a partnership with Rice on med stuff.</p>
<p>See now I’m confused. I read in <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/88425-rank-these-texas-colleges-pre-med-science-research.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/88425-rank-these-texas-colleges-pre-med-science-research.html</a> that baylor is not a pre med. school anymore. ***?</p>
<p>Well that’s news to me too. huh. Now I understand your confusion</p>
<p>I’m assuming you’re a Texas resident, and that you’d end up shooting for a Texas med/dent school for obvious reasons. I’m a Texas boy as well, so I’ve done lots of research on this stuff.</p>
<p>In Texas, you’d be fine at UT, A&M, Tech, Rice, Baylor, UTD, Austin College… In no particular order other than Rice being at the top. Pretty much all the big four year schools would be perfectly fine, but the ones listed above are the “best” ones, best used very loosely. And yes I intentionally mentioned UTD. In most cases smaller branch schools aren’t quite as highly regarded as the main campus (UT Austin in this case), but straight from the mouth of a med school adcom member at UTSW, UTD is just as good as any other school in their eyes. It does indeed have phenomenal math and science departments, and that fact is well recognized by Texas medical schools.</p>
<p>But at the end of the day, go to a respectable four year school, and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>To the OP</p>
<p>Go to the websites for UTSW, Baylor and other Med schools in Texas. Look at entering class profiles, that will let you see first hand where people went to school for their undergrad degree. I think you’ll be surprised at some of the smaller school on the lists.</p>
<p>This is from UTSW, page down to see the schools:</p>
<p>[Prospective</a> Medical Students](<a href=“http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept20676/files/397484.html#profile]Prospective”>http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept20676/files/397484.html#profile)</p>
<p>I would say to look into UTexas-Austin, Rice, Baylor, TAMU and Baylor. Those schools are the ones i’m looking into and going to decide from next year. </p>
<p>Visit campuses and try to get as much info. as possible from people there. It’ll make yuor choice much easier.</p>
<p>i agree with what zfanatic said about utd. all the texas med school regard utd’s premed program very highly. at utsw, utd send the most students after ut and a&m. the quality of education and the scholarships they give you is well worth going to utd over some schools. u cant go wrong with ut, a&m, rice, austin college, utd.</p>