I’ve heard that Brandeis is full of very friendly people, but im not sure how hard the premed reqs are.
Pretty much all of the schools’ non-educational life is fine in my opinion, but I don’t know which one will be harder (I want to pick the easiest one).
When I speak of hard or easy, I just want to avoid having a low GPA because it makes it very difficult to get into medical school.
I know that the difficulty of the coursework can either make my time in college hell or paradise so it’s really important that I gain a good feeling of how hard each school will be.
Does anybody have any statistics regarding the percent of freshmen premeds that actually end up applying to led school at any of the schools I’ve mentioned? This would give me a fairly accurate representation of the difficulty. It had been really hard for me to get my hands on such statistics.
Also, if any students or anyone who knows a student at any of the schools I mentioned could speak for the difficulty of the premed coursework, that would be very helpful.
Brandeis is probably the most premed-friendly, because the classes are as tough but the suppor resources are greater (due to the fact it’s a private university). Their pre health committee has excellent reputation, too.
At most schools, 70-80% freshmen who plan to be premed choose something else, either because they discover a real passion or because they can’t make it through the premed curriculum with a med-school worthy GPA.
There’ll be more weed-out there.
Would you be in CALS or in Science for premed at UW? Would you be interested in the highly selecive BioCORE program? BioHouse? https://www.housing.wisc.edu/residencehalls-lc-biohouse.htm
At tOSU, were you admitted to Biological Sciences Scholars, or Health Science Scholars? If so, you’d have a nice dorm. If not, UWisconsin’s process allows you to apply now to BioHouse and BioCore selection is based on freshman grades in stem subjects.