I’m not sure if I want to be a veterinarian or a plastic surgeon, so I applied to all my schools as either a bio major or premed. I really can’t decide between these schools. Money isn’t a problem and I visited and liked all the schools. I just want to know which is best for grad school.
Syracuse University
UConn
UMass Amherst
Boston University (January Boston-London)
Penn State
University of Maryland
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Is more than one person using this screen name?
In some posts you are a high school kid and in another you are a community college transfer.
In some posts you are pre-PA, and in some you are premed or prevet.
Which one are YOU?
I’m the high school pre vet/pre med student. The transfer student is my cousin who is trying to live closer to my family on Long Island. She’s been looking at school like stony brook or St. John’s to try to do pre PA. I was just asking for her because she’s not really good with the whole college thing so I’ve been helping her out. The problem is, is that I don’t know much about transferring.
If money is no object, go to the one where you feel you will get the best GPA. Which one are you most at the top of the class in your stats?
If you want to go to med school, any of these schools will do the trick so long as you keep a high GPA. Honestly, since they’re all large public schools, I’d just go with whichever is in-state for you. You’ll need to save that money for grad school!
None of them is “better” for grad school than the others; you can get into graduate school from any of them. It’s also difficult to predict where you might get the best GPA; Boston U is probably the most competitive school on the list, but it has less than half the students of UMD and Penn State and about 10,000 less than UMass-Amherst and UConn - so the smaller size and the atmosphere might actually set you up to do better than you would otherwise.
If you liked them all and simply can’t choose, you could just choose the cheapest school. Or you could choose the school that you think has better career connections post-college, because many, many pre-med students change their minds and end up not going to medical school after college (or at least not right away). Is one of them in a part of the country that you might like to live in?
Personally, if all the schools were equal on everything else, I would probably choose University of Maryland or Penn State - but only because you can get the sort of stereotypical traditional “college experience” at those places. I’d much rather live in College Park/the DC area than State College post-college, so I might choose UMD for that reason.
For what reason are you looking to go down either of those career paths?
Which of the public universities is in state for you? That would be your first choice. It would allow you to save money for medical or veterinary school.
If none are in state for you, then eliminate the ones that don’t have a College of Agriculture. Until you decide that you aren’t pre-vet, you need to be somewhere that gives you the option of taking some classes in Animal Science, and that guarantees exposure to a wide variety of animals. Even better if there is a College of Veterinary Science right on campus.
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-3.6 GPA unweighted
-1810 SAT
-3 years on wrestling team
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Are you saying that your parents will pay ALL COSTS for any school?
I have to be honest with you, your stats are very weak for the premed or prevet route.