<p>Anyone know if Brandeis is good for a prospective doctor?</p>
<p>Why not; it has a good science program, if that's what you want to major in.</p>
<p>The Brandeis pre-med program is overrated in my opinion. VERY, VERY, VERY overrated. (I'm currently a senior applying to med school)</p>
<p>Most of the professors teaching the pre-med program classes are not very good. The students are hypercompetitive, although most of them aren't outwardly jerky about it. The classes are very, very difficult and they give low grades compared to other colleges. This will severely hurt your medical applications; why would a med school want a 3.4 (typical pre-med GPA) from Brandeis when they have more than enough people with a 3.7 or 3.8 from an Ivy League or equivalent?</p>
<p>Admissions rates to med schools are so high here because they actively discourage many people from applying--every student who doesn't get in hurts the numbers so they try super hard to weed them out. Also, out of the people who do get in, the majority only get into and go to the less prestigious medical schools. Note--there's no such thing as a bad medical school, but it never hurts to have the top-notch name on your diploma.</p>
<p>Just my two cents. Good luck if you decide to come here. Frankly, for your own good I don't encourage it.</p>
<p>Hi. do you know the high school pre-requisites for entering the Brandeis pre-med program?</p>
<p>Some things never change. I’ve heard the same comments made by Deispremed (virtually word for word) made about every other university or college which has a significant premed population. I have some news. Premed requirements are supposed to be hard, and not everyone deserves an “A.” And, of course, many students believe that if they weren’t awarded an “A”, it is because the professor is no good and/or their classmates are too “cutthroat” (i.e., work too hard). </p>
<p>Medicine is a profession that requires both a certain degree of intelligence and a very high degree of dedication and work. Not everyone who is admitted to Brandeis is cut out to be a doctor. People who are unwilling or unable to work hard enough to obtain decent grades are, quite frankly, not likely to perform well in the medical profession (if you think college is tough, wait until you see what residency is like)</p>
<p>. Good schools uniformly make the standard premed required courses somewhat difficult because it separates the wheat from the chafe. You really don’t need to have a deep understanding of organic chemistry or physics in order to be a good physician, but history has proven that if you can do well in those course, you can probably handle the medical school curriculum. The required premed courses are generally not theoretically difficult or particularly abstract; rather they are designed to require a lot of work to do well. Schools that do not make those courses difficult and/or who recommend students who really are not up to the challege do not have high medical school placement rates because medical schools need those courses to act as a screen and have to rely on the accuracy of colleges’ recommendation. I can assure that a college that has a high medical school placement record is also one that is very challenging and competitive.</p>
<p>Brandeis has a good reputation among medical schools and does well in placing students into medical school because medical schools know that if a student did well at Brandeis, he/she will probably do well both in medical school and in the profession. It is true that not everyone will do well enough to be admitted to medical school; there are considerably more people applying to medical school than there places for them. That’s why its competitive. Welcome to the real world.</p>