<p>Hello, I'm a prospective student looking for a good college that has a good Computer Science program along with a good biology program. Although I'm not quite sure, I am thinking of trying to apply for medical school after I get my undergraduate. If I were to major in CS, would it be hard to get into medical school too?</p>
<p>I’ll let others suggest specific schools. If you major in CS, you won’t have any problem getting into medical school as long as you have a good GPA, do well on the MCAT, and take the med school prereqs. Well, no more of a problem than anyone else, anyway.</p>
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<p>Of those, MIT, Tufts, Stanford, Columbia, and CMU would be good in biology as well (probably others too).</p>
<p>Computer science can be hard on your GPA, which is important for med school.</p>
<p>For both disciplines, the best would be Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, Harvard, Caltech, Cornell, U Washington, Columbia, Penn.</p>
<p>For decent (though not tippy-top) schools in both, try UIUC, CMU, Brown, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Yale, UW-Madison, UNC-Chapel Hill, UC San Diego, CU-Boulder - among many others. Biology and computer science are both very common departments - esp. biology - so you’re likely to be in good hands at most schools.</p>
<p>That’s just silly about CS being hard on your GPA. It’s all about the fit between the major program and your scholarly gifts. You know what would have been hard on my GPA? History.</p>
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<p>Of course, but that’s understood in any discussion of majors. That’s why I said ‘can be.’ It’s an undeniable fact that some majors have on average higher GPAs, while other majors are relatively deflated. CS tends to be one of the deflated majors.</p>