<p>d has gotten into USC the special program of Health professions and Disease prevention degree pre med
she also got into UCSB honors
UCSD-warren college regular admit
Claremont Mckenna
Scripps.
Of these we think USC will be the best for med school? Is that true? Now if she gets into UCLA or Berkley would that still hold true?</p>
<p>Sorry for all the questions here but one more. If you go to an IVY legue like Yale or Columbia is that better-?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>There is no "best" school for pre-med. It depends on a lot of factors. She should go to a school where she feels comfortable and has the ability to work her hardest in. Also, it would be helpful to make sure that the school she goes to has good advising since it helps. Found out which schools offer the best research and which schools will give her the best chance to get a good rec from a professor (smaller class size).</p>
<p>Untaken is pretty close, but I don't necessarily agree that small classes automatically equal easy recommendations. And, "best research" is a hard task to find and rank and *in general<a href="not%20always">/i</a> is a factor larger schools are going to have an advantage.</p>
<p>Your daughter should go to the school that is the best fit for her, the one that will allow her to ahve the most success academically, socially, physically and emotionally, with great balance in those areas as well. For some students going to a really small college is the way to go, for others not so much. In general, name doesn't really matter that much in medical school admissions. This is not to say there aren't some schools that are great pre-med institutions just that the ways in which a school is great for pre-med (volunteer/shadowing/leadership/research opportunities, great pre-med advising, interview prep, etc) aren't easy to quantify in any real meaningful way when looking from the outside. How do you rank advising? How do you say one school is better for shadowing opportunities? </p>
<p>The schools that do a really good job may be third tier publics, because you only need one phenomenal advisor to be great in that category. So these things dont' really necessarily follow the 'normal' rankings so popular on these boards.</p>
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Remember, this is the best research which is available for undergraduate students to get involved in. UCB does a ton of great research, but my guess is that it's hard to get plugged into.</p>
<p>Of the schools you mentioned, Scripps is the one that's most intriguing to me. I've never heard of it before. Is it associated with the Scripps in San Diego? <a href="http://www.scripps.edu/e_index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.scripps.edu/e_index.html</a> If so, and if the school is small and all that, I'd have to say that that would be hard to turn down.</p>
<p>It wouldn't matter horribly much for medical school admissions. Just for generally being awesome. It would be like having an undergrad degree from MD Anderson or Mayo. It would just... it would be studly.</p>
<p>no this this is the scripps college in claremont california. I am thinking that usc with the degree program of Health disease and prevention out of the Keck school of medicine is going to give her the best chances</p>
<p>Re: Scripps: See, and I really should have known that. Not only did I think about going to McKenna (until I visited), but my high school class had two girls (a lot, for us) go to Scripps.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what that major entails but to be honest majors very rarely matter. Usually the most important thing about a major is to make sure it doesn't sound vocational -- i.e. kinesiology or exercise therapy are bad majors while biology and history are both fine.</p>
<p>This to me sounds like it's running the danger of sounding a little bit vocational -- almost as if she's getting an MPH instead of a BS. (An MPH would be fine in addition to a broad, basic-science background, but you don't want that to replace the standard curriculum.)</p>
<p>A few more warnings:
1.) My friends have anecdotally had very bad experiences with UCB and UCLA. Generally publics -- as a general rule, but BRM is very, very right that exceptions are very possible -- have a hard time with the little nudges that they need to give their undergrads.
2.) Honors college won't matter, so if she wouldn't go to UCSB without it, that shouldn't sway her.
3.) Generally speaking, Ivies are a little better at those little "nudges" premeds need. It's hard because the caliber of students at Ivies is higher generally so it's basically impossible to measure whether they're actually any better or not. Certainly I would tell you that my premedical path would have been very different had I not been at Duke.</p>
<p>if she got in, Claremont Mckenna or Scripps!!! UCLA or Cal if you wanna save some money.</p>
<p>Our pediatrician sent his daughter to Scripps and now she is a doctor too.
I found an article on-line once about their strategic plan and Scripps was putting much more emphasis on their pre-med program.</p>
<p>Here is a different web page with a Chat session about Pre-med programs at Pomona, Scripps & Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna and Scripps share a joint sciences program, so the science classes would be the same at both schools.</p>
<p>The schools have pretty different atmospheres, however.</p>
<p>I am currently a sophomore at scripps and am having a great time. Although it doesn't have the reputation of the big UCs it has a really good joint science program and boasts an almost 100% acceptance rate. the faculty are also really welcoming to research collaboration and many have million dollar grants. because it's smaller you have a higher chance of cowriting a published scientific study or article and getting good personal recs.</p>