Best premed program

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Out of these schools which has the best premed program?
which one can get some one into the best med schools and which has the best MCAT preparation?</p>

<p>Holy Cross
Providence college
Wake forest
Boston University
Vanderbilt</p>

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<p>Just looking at opportunities to do this medically related (i.e shadow, volunteer) Vanderbilt and Boston University have some great hospitals close by.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt</p>

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<p>Holy Cross
Juniata
Columbia
Williams all come to mind</p>

<p>I believe the small LAC's offer you better research opportunities versus the Ivies, Wash U and Hops</p>

<p>Good Luck with your search</p>

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<p>^ disagree strongly with the above comment; top research universities have facilities that LAC's cannot even come close to matching, and oftentimes have more positions availible, even considering the greater presence of grad students at research schools. There are simply so many professors, so many labs, that you can not only find a job, but find one in the research area of your choice oftentimes. LACs, by comparison, generally have small science departments, and the lack of grad schools hurts the overall quality of the research conducted there greatly.</p>

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<p>The smaller Lac's do offer many research opportunities that the large research uni's do not for an undergrad. That would be for the grad students. You may be washing beakers smile for the grad student.</p>

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<p>well, you have to wash beakers for a while wherever you go. Actually, the presence of grad students is most often actually beneficial to undergrads. Grad students are more often willing to take the time to teach undergrads than professors are, and grad students and post docs tend to be the individuals who do much of the actual exciting research in the lab while the PI writes grants. It's simply silly to think that a school with inferior facilities and faculty (strictly in the science research sense, LACs are certainly great teching-wise) will offer better research opportunities. Grad students do not compete with undergrads for research opportunities, they provide them.</p>

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<p>I have never heard of anyone at a Top 20 school being unable to find legit research. The caliber of research conducted at LAC's and at Ivies, Stanford, whatever is incomparable.</p>