<p>How accurate is that statement (I'm sorry if this has been answered before)?</p>
<p>cornell is not good for pre-med = the sky is really green but we're all just color blind.</p>
<p>Clear enough, gomestar lol. Thanks!</p>
<p>good. i'm glad it's not =D</p>
<p>apologies to all who'll hate me for the foll statement,</p>
<p>gomestar, the sky isn't actually blue...its because of scattering of light and Caunchy's relation (intensity of scattering=(a/lambda)+((b/lambda)^2)+((c/lambda)^4)...so blue bein shorter lamda, is scattered most</p>
<p>just a humoroys jibe please</p>
<p>not good for pre-med=total lie. Perhaps you are looking for hard as the day is long, which is definetly true.</p>
<p>HAHA nice arjun...glad you're back</p>
<p>kuni_kuni88... where did you hear this from?</p>
<p>Frequently Asked Questions About Admissions</p>
<p>Q: Does Cornell have pre-med, pre-vet, or pre-law majors?</p>
<p>A: Cornell students do not major in pre-med, pre-vet, or pre-law. They complete the preparatory coursework for graduate programs in human and veterinary medicine, and law while pursuing the academic discipline that interests them most as undergraduates. Pre-med and pre-vet students majoring in everything from art history to theatre arts complete the preprofessional courses that are required by med and vet schools --- introductory biology, chemistry, and physics, for example. Pre-law students also pursue any of the more than 70 formal majors offered at the university while honing their skills in writing, verbal communication, research, problem-solving, and analysis. </p>
<p>As applicants to med and law programs, Cornell students do extremely well. Nationally, about 50 percent of the applicants to medical schools were accepted in 2003. Of the Cornell students who applied for 2003 admission, 76 percent were accepted to at least one medical school; and Cornell students with a grade point average of 3.4 or above had an acceptance rate of 89 percent. As for law school, 86 percent of the Cornell applicants were accepted to at least one law school for the fall, compared to the national average of about 62%. </p>
<p>Additional information may be found in the [url=<a href="http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/pre-med_bulletin.pdf%5Dpre-med/pre-vet%5B/url">http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/pre-med_bulletin.pdf]pre-med/pre-vet[/url</a>] and [url=<a href="http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/pre-law_bulletin.pdf%5Dpre-law%5B/url">http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/pre-law_bulletin.pdf]pre-law[/url</a>] information bulletins.</p>
<p>Those are impressive numbers but I must ask a question: Approximately what percent of the students who enter wanting to enter medical school end up having their dreams shattered after a few semesters of "weeding out"? It could be the case that 1000 people enter as pre-med only to find that at the end only 10 people have acceptable grades to apply for medical school, and by chance all of those 10 being accepted, which in turn causes a 100% acceptance statistic. Anyone know approximately what portion enter as aspiring doctors only to have their dreams shattered by the system?</p>
<p>i dont think there's any true statistic on this. those who truly want med school will work hard, do well, and get into top med schools. the average college student changes majors nearly 3 times before they graduate. i know a few people who have dropped the pre-med track, but that's only because they realized that they didn't want to go to med school and want to do other things with their lives. it happens, i've changed majors and career paths myself. Cornell has allowed me to explore many other options and i'm certain this is the case for many other students.</p>
<p>hahaha, my band director's wife is a teacher at Cornell, and she teaches biological somethin' somethin' for doctorate students and she gets a lot of people mad at her because the class she teaches is often a class which weeds out the die hard med school students. Imagine putting in all that effort to get to med school and still have courses weeding out the men from the boys.</p>
<p>thelarson, it's just one of those rumors that I've seen randomly floating around the web (like "Cornell is so cold that it's unbearable," etc).</p>
<p>I wanted to know because I got a likely letter, and I do plan on going to Cornell for pre-med. I'm not too concerned about the difficulty, seeing as how pre-med is rigorous in general...I just wanted to make sure I wasn't making an academic mistake.</p>
<p>Heh, I'm influenced by rumors too much, it seems lol.</p>
<p>In my opinion, Cornell is a really good place to be a premed. You have to work hard, but doing well is certainly in reach. </p>
<p>Yes, it is hard to earn a high GPA, but med schools know this.</p>
<p>Rigorous classes will prepare you for the MCAT as well as for the rigors of medical school.</p>
<p>For instance, I know a cornell graduate who went to Downstate Medical College. She scored a 100% on one of her practical exams in her first semester.</p>
<p>Don't let the difficulty of the program scare you away. Medical School is no cake walk, and Cornell prepares its students very well.</p>