columbia vs cornell vs johns hopkins for premed

[curlly37]

<p>i got into all theree but i am not sure which choice i should make. the financial aid isnt to great so im considering going to rutgers school of pharmacy. i would appreciate any feedback.</p>

[Jcancollegebound]

<p>what’s the financial aid like for each school? (as in, which gave the best etc)</p>

[Excepted]

<p>If Fin Aid is an issue, go to rutgers. </p>

<p>Otherwise it is hard to beat JHU for premed; it is the harvard of medicine.</p>

[Shraf]

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the financial aid isnt to great so im considering going to rutgers school of pharmacy.

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<p>i think you first need to decide whether or not you want to go to pharmacy school. it’s like you are choosing between three apples (columbia, cornell and JHU) and an orange (pharmacy school)…you need to choose which fruit you want to eat first </p>

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If Fin Aid is an issue, go to rutgers.

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<p>terrible advice. also as far as pharmacy schools go…i don’t think rutgers is particularly good is it? </p>

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Otherwise it is hard to beat JHU for premed; it is the harvard of medicine.

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<p>my verbatim response to Expected from this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/683388-columbia-vs-johns-hopkins-bme.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/683388-columbia-vs-johns-hopkins-bme.html&lt;/a&gt; where he was still trying to peddle his BS by saying:</p>

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JHU has AMAZING med school placement as well. If medicine is your thing, JHU cannot be beat, simply put.</p>

<p>(I know this because I have two cousins that are going through med school now)

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<p>was as follows:</p>

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there is no such thing as “AMAZING med school placement” …you don’t get placed and your undergrad doesn’t play much of a role in your success. columbia has good pre-med advising and a premed committee… that’s all that really matters in that respect …JHU doesn’t inherently have an upper hand in any aspect that would make their premeds any more successful in the med school application process</p>

<p>…congrats to your cousins but that doesn’t make you any less of a HS student who doesn’t know what he’s talking about

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<p>so it’s up to you whether you want to believe the guy who just got into med school or some random HS kid</p>

[curlly37]

<p>cost at this point is 50,000 for columbia and cornell. jhu was appealed and cost will be about 38,000 now. rutgers pharmacy is one of the best pharmacy schools btw and will only cost me room and board (10,000) per year.</p>

[holmespoint]

<p>You can always apply to medical school with a Pharmacy degree. I had several pharmacists in my medical school class and they had some pretty sweet weekend/summer jobs that paid them way more than my “BS in Biology” degree was worth.</p>