<p>Where can I find how many BU undergrad/premed students get accepted to medical school? Where can I find this data? I’ve tried to search this online, but no luck. Help?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I would love to speak with freshman/sophomore/junior/senior who did or are doing the pre-med requirements for med school. I have some questions 
please let me know who you are!</p>
<p>Hi I am a freshman student in Sargent college currently on the pre-med track but in a way sort of switching after this year. I would personally not recommend choosing BU pre-med over a lot of other pre-med programs because the benefits just aren’t there. First BU classes are hard and require a lot of work. BIO 108 which is second semester biology curves the average grade to C+ in a class where the vast majority of students are pre-med. Also your class is likely to be the highest statistically ever so you suffer even more by your peers being smarter. Chem 101-102 is kind of the same with the average usually around a C+/B- with less of a hard curve but the class is generally really time intensive with two online assignments that take a lot of time a week plus all the other things that go along with it. I don’t know anything about where to find that info but essentially they tell you everyone who has a 3.5 has a good acceptance rate which is true for all colleges in the US essentially. So the BU name probably isn’t really opening any doors. On top of this the preprofessional advising committee will only write recommendations to students who have above a 3.5. </p>
<p>Essentially because of the 3.0 I have gotten my first semester I will be switching out of the pre-med program at BU and take my pre-recs a community college during the summer so as not to kill my science and non science GPA. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>@VIkIngboy11: thank you for your response! I have a couple of questions, if you don’t mind:</p>
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<li>Did you ever take AP Chem, Bio, Psych? How did these classes compare to the workload, depth and difficulty to BU pre-med intro (weeder classes) such as CH 101/102, first semester/second semester freshman BIO.</li>
<li>What is the normal homework workload per week for these classes? You mentioned online assignments, what did these involve?</li>
<li>What classes did you take first and second semester freshman year?</li>
<li>Do you recommend a professor? Who and why?</li>
<li>What was your schedule like? When did your classes usually started? How many classes per day? How many per week?</li>
<li>How did you find pre-med advising?</li>
<li>Did you join any clubs, do some volunteering, shadowing this year?</li>
<li>LAST ONE! I SWEAR! Do you recommend the pre-medical society at BU?</li>
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<p>Sorry for asking you so many questions! I’d love to know if you could take the time to answer them :)</p>
<p>well that is not very smart, don’t take pre-recs over the summer at a CC- most schools will not accept accept summer pre-reqs at a CC (some won’t take CC pre-reqs at all and most don’t take summer pre-reqs at all), and i don’t know what your major is but any of those pre-recs that are also part of your major BU will not count towards academic credit at BU. Also, AMCAS takes every single class you took EVER when the calculate your overall and BCPM grades. Transfer to an easier school, one that doesn’t deflate grades, hell transfer to harvard- they have grade inflation. There are no tricks to getting around the pre-reqs, no back door that you can sneak in an easier way. They will question why you took pre-reqs at a CC and not BU and if your only answer is, i wanted to keep my GPA up then they will laugh you out of the interview. Yes BU has huge grade deflation- it sucks, but every one knows it. If you are getting B’s to A’s then then your fine… ALL MED SCHOOLS KNOW THAT BU DEFLATES GRADES! Guess what it is not easy becoming a doctor. The current system in place to determine who will complete med school is so highly refines that the success rate of people who make it from med school to graduation is like 94%. there are 2 things you cannot change, substitute or manipulate and its GPA and MCAT. </p>
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<p>If this is your complaint you will never survive in medical school if you somehow manage to get admitted.</p>