<p>Hey guys, I think Brown is more famous but WashU has top 3 Medical School. If someone does not get in with PLME, which one would be better for getting into medical school. I think Brown’s Pass/fail is draw back. I am not sure about whether WashU practice grade inflation/deflation.</p>
<p>Medical schools don’t really care where you go to undergrad, only what and how well you do while there.</p>
<p>Go where you feel the most comfortable and see yourself doing the best, and take advantage of every opportunity while you’re there.</p>
<p>Pass/Fail isn’t a drawback.</p>
<p>It’s not uniformly pass/fail across the board, and they basically don’t let you take classes that are going to count for your Pre-Med track as P/F unless that’s the only way the class is available in.</p>
<p>And medical schools do care where you went, to a degree.</p>
<p>Not at all of them, for sure, but it makes a difference at certain places.</p>
<p>Then again, it’s also hard to stick out against a stud from MIT if you’re using the limited resources at Southwest Missouri State, but we’re being reasonable here.</p>
<p>I believe Wash U’s medical school dips into its undergrad population a bit more than Brown’s does, though.</p>
<p>The other argument is that it’s easier to stand out at a “Southwest Missouri State” …less competition for research spots, probably easier to get to know your professors, etc.</p>
<p>One of my professors has two kids who went to the local city college here and worried that they weren’t at a ‘top school’ like so many other kids, they both did well and got things like ‘best ever’ in their recommendation letters, and both are now attending top 10 medical schools.</p>
<p>You might have more interesting opportunities available to you at a higher tier school, but IMO what you do with your time is ultimately more important than where.</p>
<p>I think the main exception to that is that they do take academic rigor into account. A 3.6 from a Johns Hopkins is going to be more impressive than a 3.6 from a much less rigorous institution.</p>
<p>good rec at [elite school] is better than a good rec at no name school in most cases. luckily i have both :)</p>
<p>brown is one of the top five schools in the country for getting students into medical school. wash u is not.</p>
<p>brown is also a great place to be pre-med, relatively low stress, great professors and opportunities.</p>
<p>Posting on the Brown board will certainly get you a different answer than posting on the WashU board. There are tons of statistics on the WashU board about premeds and you should post your question there also to get both sides. If you are planning on medical school then go to where there is better FA.</p>
<p>Thank you guys, I understand many of CCers are biased to Brown on Brown Board. </p>
<p>"brown is one of the top five schools in the country for getting students into medical school. wash u is not.</p>
<p>brown is also a great place to be pre-med, relatively low stress, great professors and opportunities. "</p>
<p>Can someone provide proof? I don’t think WashU is a no name school at all. In fact, no offense, but WashU>Brown in Medical School.</p>
<p>^^^ Brown University Health Advising has compiled that data and consistently reports that Brown is one of the top 5 schools in the country placing the most premeds into med school. Enter the website and read the information. There can be no further proof than that. I am sure you would not suggest that a school like Brown would ever consider spreading misinformation of that nature.</p>
<p>Wash U is not any of the other 4 schools which happen to be Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth… Northwestern is pretty close to the top 5 as well.</p>
<p>thegenius, you need to be aware that a university with a great medical school is not necessarily a university best-suited for premedical studies. That’s a big fallacy. You’re best off in whichever school you’re supported by the most, in which you can have a high quality of life, get great grades, and pursue some research to bolster your application/demonstrate your commitment. I’d personally recommend a small liberal arts college, not a research university. But of the two you mentioned, Brown is far more of that ilk than Washington University is.</p>
<p>I am considering between these two schools for biomedical engineering - who has the stronger program??</p>
<p>Oh, keep in mind that Brown sends 2/3 of its kids to medical school AFTER some type of time gap.</p>
<p>Not sure if that makes too much of a difference.</p>
<p>They tell you what they think is best for you at some point.</p>
<p>I mean, I’m perfectly fine with whatever they suggest (I can always get a Master’s somewhere in the meantime), but this might be a problem for the Type-A’s, I suppose.</p>
<p>Anecdotally, the majority of the people I know taking gap time decided they wanted to be doctors their senior year of college. The only exception to this was one girl who has had trouble getting into American medical schools as someone with a foreign visa despite her excellent stats.</p>
<p>Ah, fair enough, modestmelody. </p>
<p>That’d explain a lot.</p>
<p>Yeah I mean I don’t know how much of that is the case, but I know people who get into all these top ten grad programs and then think like… **** that’s not for me I want to go to med school instead now. So they take a gap year because by January senior year it’s a bit late for that without a gap year.</p>