<p>My college application list is as follows for right now:</p>
<p>Stanford
U Penn
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Wash U
UT</p>
<p>I have one or two more open spots and I am asking you all for advice. I'm looking for a good pre-med school (bio sciences) located in a not-too isolated place with a not-too-terribly-cold climate.</p>
<p>Suggestions?</p>
<p>What about Tufts? I think they have a pretty-good premed program. Not too sure about it but i heard about guarenteed acceptance into its medical school if you enroll in soem special program. It’s in Medford, MA which is like 10 minutes from Boston!
btw do you fence?</p>
<p>Is this all you’re applying to? What do you consider your safeties? None of the schools you list have anywhere near a high accept rate. You need a great safety school or two.</p>
<p>I live in Texas. UT is actually my safety since top 10% automatically in and I am in top 10%. Yes, I know it would’ve been foolish not to apply without a safety.</p>
<p>And also - Tufts is in Massachusetts, and unfortunately like most of the Ivies it is not in a warm climate. I do not fence but I would really like to learn.</p>
<p>Bump10char</p>
<p>Have you looked at NYU? The only reason I think of it is because they tried to recruit me for fencing. Plus, New York >> all other places on earth.</p>
<p>University of Virginia</p>
<p>those are some great schools you have so far! Have you thought about Emory for pre-med?</p>
<p>No to NYU for the same reason as why I am not applying to Columbia. NYC is great, but too cold =( I am also very interested in neurology and neuroscience if that helps.</p>
<p>hmm
vanderbilt?</p>
<p>Tennessee = meh</p>
<p>How about Davidson?</p>
<p>UC Berkeley, UCLA, Pomona?</p>
<p>I would also suggest Vanderbilt and Emory.</p>
<p>^^^ That’s actually more what I was thinking, along with UCSD. Does anyone know the approx acceptance rate of UCB, UCLA, and UCSD for OOS kids? How about aid/scholarships (I know here in Texas UT Austin gives substantial scholarsihps to very qualified applicants)?</p>
<p>(I’m sorry I was referring to singermama’s post)</p>
<p>Check out Emory in Atlanta, GA.</p>
<p>Why have you ruled out Columbia, NYU, and Tufts for their cold climate but UPenn is on the list? </p>
<p>As for suggestions, I’d also go with Emory too. How about Georgetown? I don’t know what the weather is like there though. Or USC, but I’m not sure how good their premed is. They do have an excellent BA/MD program though.</p>
<p>USC has an accelerated program? Do you know how competitive it is?</p>
<p>I’m not totally wacko - this is my reasoning for U Penn. I didn’t want to regret not applying to an Ivy, so I tried to pick out the ‘warmest’ of the Ivies (if that’s possible), and that led me to U Penn, the southernmost Ivy.</p>