Can anyone tell me what schools have the best pre-med programs, biological science courses, and are active in scientific research?
<p>Johns Hopkins U.</p>
<p>I agree with scorp all the way.</p>
<p>What about UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, and University of Virginia?</p>
<p>those are all great schools and have good programs in science.</p>
<p>emory, vanderbilt, u mich, ucla, and of course HARVARD, U PENN and darmouth</p>
<p>Hopkins is the best, by far</p>
<p>Stanford..but they are almost good in everything. I don't really know alot about JHU, except that they have the top, or one of the top medical schools.</p>
<p>Hopkins is excellent if you definitely want to pursue research. There are numerous opportunities to work on your own individual research projects or work in a lab.</p>
<p>hopkin is definately the best, with no doubt, but UNC chapel hill and Duke are very good too, since i live within 20 miles from both of them :)</p>
<p>Cornell, Davidson, Swarthmore, Michigan, Duke, Rice</p>
<p>JHU is the best for biochemical/medical research, but they're weak in other areas of biology (ecol,evol, etc.). I'm not sure JHU is the best school for pre-med. They definitely have one of the very best programs, but JHU weeds out A LOT of would-be doctors and tends to kill your GPA. It also seemed kind of cutthroat when I visited, but maybe that was just my impression. Research opportunities are great, though. They even offer a special scholarship just for research (Wilson scholarships). :)</p>
<p>Rice offers a scholarship for research as well, century scholars:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Ecentscho%5B/url%5D">www.ruf.rice.edu/~centscho</a></p>
<p>Wisconsin has the largest bio research program in the US. Many excellent specialties.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/biotech/%5B/url%5D">http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/biotech/</a></p>
<p>austin college in sherman, texas is really good too. not as pretigious as the ones previously listed, but well known by "important people" :-P. They have like a 95% acceptance rate into med school.</p>
<p>I've never considered JHU to be great for pre-med for a few reasons. Hopefully, someone can clear up these misconseptions.
1st, I've heard that they grade on a curve scale meaning a grade in a class depends on the overall performance of the class. I'm only a freshmen, but that seems unfair. If you study yourself to death for an exam and earn a B- and the rest of the class earn an A, then you've done badly.
2nd, JHU would probably have great research opportunities. However, because of the large number of pre-meds, not to mention med and grad students, seeking those good positions in labs, wouldn't that make it most difficult for the indivual pre-med to do research?<br>
3rd, I always thought that freshmens and sophmores who are pre-meds at JHU would be the most unlikely people to benefit from the plethora of high-quality science courses. Wouldn't they be the ones stuck in the large intro science classes? It seems waiting for three years until one is a junior is an awful longtime to experience the benefits of a good quality science class at JHU. </p>
<p>Of course these our all opinions of a high school freshmen :). If anyone would like clear something up, go ahead.</p>
<p>i doubt there is a significant difference, if any, between the premed courses in the top 100 or so universities. in terms of research...id say concentrate on private schools and/or schools located in areas where their are lots of research opp. around outside of the school (ie research triangle park in NC or a big city like cleveland or nyc)</p>