<p>Does anyone have any advice for someone going premed at Cornell? Cornell is my dream school but I hear its difficult for premed, esp when applying into med school. I was chosen for two med programs, and the one i'm considering now is Siena/Albany Med. Any suggestions/advice is greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>guaranteed med! you can be a visiting student at cornell for a semester or 2 if you want 
and then you’re automatically in med school, so i think it’s the best of both worlds that way</p>
<p>ahhhh do you know bout premed at cornell? thanks for your help! im still unsure because cornell’s been my top choice… but i want a good shot at med school which I beleive would be quite difficult at Cornell (in terms of the stress/workload/competition)</p>
<p>If you’re sure you want med school, then Siena/Albany is the way to go. Getting into med school is tough coming from any college, not just Cornell. The premeds I know who are now seniors at Cornell have respectable grades & MCATS & still didn’t have an easy time getting into med school. </p>
<p>I’m a big fan of Cornell, but if you are already accepted into a med program, I suggest taking it. Even if you do well at Cornell (or anywhere), there’s no guarantee you’ll get accepted to med school. Also, you would avoid the stress & uncertainty of the MCATS, applications, traveling around to interview (assuming you get invites).</p>
<p>cornell’s med school acceptance rate is 88% for those who had at least a 3.4 gpa and scored a 30 on the MCAT. that said, i don’t know if that includes DO schools and it also includes random schools in the middle of no where. cornell is a big med school feeder, so if you do well (enough), you’ll probably get in somewhere. i do agree with momof2teens in that it’ll save you a lot of the hassle of going through actually taking the MCAT and going to interviews and dealing with applications if you take the guaranteed med thing though, so i would pick that if i were you.</p>
<p>If you’ve been judged to be worthy of a guaranteed med program, you will likely be able to handle the workload at Cornell and have an even better chance at a better med school (and maybe a better experience overall).</p>
<p>That being said, if you worried at all about not doing well in college, choose the guaranteed med program.</p>
<p>aight this is what u need to consider:</p>
<p>1) If you go to cornell and after a few years of doing premed, you decide you dont like it, you can change your major. But with the guaranteed med program, your committed to doing medicine with no flexibility unless u want to drop out or transfer. </p>
<p>2) With the garunteed med program, there are some flaws. Albany med school isnt as prestigious as Cornell Med School.And with most garunteed med programs, when you do reach the med school stage, your options in the medical field are limited to primary care physician or limited options in the surgery field, basically no specialties. With a more world renound/prestigious med school such as hopkins, harvard, columbia, or cornell, you have the option to procure a career in something specific such as oncology or specialze in becoming a heart surgeon. </p>
<p>3) With cornell, and completing the premed program, you have to earn your spot at a med school. Most kids who apply to med school apply to like 25 different ones but are only admitted to 3-5 at most. Each school costs approx $100 to apply to or more so its like $2500+ to apply to med school. With Cornell, thier ivy program is rigorous but on the upside if you apply from cornell, ur gpa can be like a 3.9-3.8 b/c of difficulty as opposed to applying from a diff private school, where u need a 4.0 to get into top med schools. if you think you cant maintain a 3.8-2.9 gpa in cornell, then ur wasting ur time and u need a decent MCAT score which with the guaranteed program is waived. </p>
<p>This is my outlook on it, if u want to become a general physician, do the garunteed program and feel ur committed to medicine. If u think u want to specialize in something and want flexibility, choose Cornell. Hope this works.</p>
<p>two questions that come to mind reading this thread:
- what does it mean to be a visiting student at Cornell? I have never heard of anyone being a visiting student anywhere.
- there’s no reason to think someone from Cornell would go to Weill Cornell for med school, right? so you still might not get into such a prestigious med school coming from Cornell.</p>
<p>faustarp, the visiting student thing is you apply to a school (if they have a visiting student program) and you stay for only one or 2 semesters. you give them a suggested schedule for you and tell them why you think you’d benefit from going there for a while. and i’m surprised you haven’t heard of it. there were 5 internationals who came in with me this spring who are here for only this semester and there is also a girl i’m friends with from bates college who is here for only this semester as a visiting student. harvard (and i believe most of the ivies) have it, as do many other schools. it’s kind of like studying abroad within the US</p>
<p>srkillsalot, that’s not true. the OP CAN decide to stop pursuing medicine as an undergrad at any time he/she wants. the only problem then is being stuck at siena if you don’t want to be there except for the guaranteed med program. also, the OP can also get into competitive residencies, so i don’t see why you think that he/she can only do primary care.</p>