<p>Hi, can you name any college that have good medical programs? I live in Maryland and it would be very nice if you could name colleges near or in Maryland. Thank you.</p>
<p>Do you mean good medical schools or good undergraduate schools for students who are planning to apply to med school?</p>
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<p>Hi, can you name any college that have good medical programs? *</p>
<p>Are you asking which colleges have med schools? </p>
<p>You don’t have to go to an undergrad with a med school.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with UMaryland?</p>
<p>Oh, I was talking about undergrad and I am totally clueless which colleges have good medical programs. I don’t want to apply myself to a school that has a terrible program.</p>
<p>Your question is still kind of confusing.</p>
<p>Do you mean “pre-medical”? You can’t get a medical degree in college. You go to college first and get a bachelor’s degree, either a B.A. or a B.S. After that, you go to medical school (or a college of osteopathic medicine) to earn either an M.D. or a D.O. degree.</p>
<p>If you’re planning to go to medical school, you can major in almost anything in college, but you’ll need to take at least 2 semesters of biology, 2 semesters of inorganic chemistry, 2 semesters of organic chemistry, 2 semesters of physics, and an English class with a strong writing component. Many medical schools also want you to study calculus. Because medical school requires 8 semesters of science, many pre-med students major in one of the sciences. It just makes life easier if you can satisfy both your pre-med requirements and your major requirements with the same classes.</p>
<p>You can take these classes at virtually any college, but some colleges have better pre-medical advising and placement services for their students than others. If you’re in Maryland and interested in going to medical, I’d agree that you should investigate the University of Maryland, College Park, and also the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.</p>
<p>Oh that was very helpful thank you, but I heard medical schools will only choose a few students. Won’t they look for students in a college more harder to get into, such as John Hopkins University? To get into John Hopkins you need a very high SAT score and you can get into College Park with a lower SAT score, comparing to the score you need to get into John Hopkins. Won’t medical schools choose the students in Hopkins than the students in College Park?</p>
<p>Also, I’m in high school right now and I’m taking Biology AP and Chemistry AP next year. If I pass the AP exams, do I still have to take 8 semesters of a Science course, even though I passed the AP exam for Bio AP and Chem AP?</p>
<p>Sorry for all these questions, thank you so much for answering!</p>
<p>Helpme, prestige sometimes matters. If you have the grades and SAT scores for it, and you can afford it, sure, go to Hopkins or Georgetown. They’re very fancy-shmancy schools where you can get a first-rate education. But more important than the fanciness of your undergraduate institution is the quality of your undergraduate record–the classes you take, your GPA, your recommendations from professors. You absolutely can get into medical school if you go to College Park or UMBC.</p>
<p>As for your question about APs, I’ll have to defer to somebody else. I was in college 25 years ago, and I’m not a doctor. I don’t think very many medical schools will take high school AP classes in place of introductory bio or chem, but I don’t really know. You might be able to find you answer on College Confidential’s pre-med forum if nobody answers your question here.</p>
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<p>Colleges have differing requirements for HS preparation, but in general, selective schools will want you to take four years of sciences. If your question is whether passing an AP exam satisfies the requirement for a year’s worth of Bio and Chem, you ought to bring that up with your HS guidance counselor. And as stated above, there is no particular benefit in attending an undergraduate school that has an affiliated med school. Some of the best colleges in America are undergraduate colleges only and have no graduate or pre-professional schools.</p>
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