<p>Hi there! I know there have been a few pre-med threads about Cornell, but I haven't found the exact information that I wanted to get. </p>
<p>I have been accepted to Cornell's College of Engineering. I have also been accepted to comaparble engineering schools and BA/MD programs, but before I make a desicion, I want to explore all my choices. Plus Cornell is an Ivy. ;)</p>
<p>I was just wondering the stats on how many people get into medical school on their first time, what medical schools do they go to, what GPA do they have, how is the pre-med advising, and what volunteering/shadowing oppertunities are availible. I wuold also like to know the success rates of engineering majors. I'm planning to do Biological Engineering, btw.</p>
<p>I know research is basically out the window, unless you get really lucky, which is a big turn-off. :</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>id say if you can get into a ba/md program, you are pretty smart. so the chances of you getting into med school from cornell if everything stays on track is pretty high for you.
it’s harder to get into med school from CoE but i know poeple who are chemE or bio E and doing well on their pre med tracks so its def possible. the advising is pretty good here i heard though i never went once… cornell says about a 85% or so acceptance rate with 3.4+ gpa and 30+ mcat…</p>
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<p>A boatload. Cornell has the perfect balance of size and quality, which is why they send more students to med school than any other school in the country. Harvard, Yale, etc. have higher percentages (as you’d expect) but they are also much smaller. Berkeley, UCLA, UT-Austin produce more applicants but they have much lower percentages than Cornell. In other words, med school adcoms know Cornell and the quality of premeds it produces very well.</p>
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<p>All the top med schools. I interviewed at a lot of the top med schools and I met a ton of Cornell applicants. At Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 3 out of the 10 interviewees on my interview day were from Cornell. At Penn Med, 5 out of the 25 interviewees were from Cornell. In my (top 20) med school class, there are 4 Cornellians (more than any other undergrad except the affiliated undergrad). Last year, out of 230 or so undergrad applicants from Cornell, over 90 scored higher than 35 on the MCAT. So, you can expect Cornellians to be well-represented among the top med schools.</p>
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<p>If you can get a 3.4 or above, your chances are good. The average GPA at Cornell is around 3.4. </p>
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<p>Excellent. Judy is the health careers adviser and her advice is SPOT ON. Many colleges have generic advisers but Judy is right on the money with her advice. She will give talks throughout the year on everything from how to get letters of rec to how to fill out the AMCAS application to what to do if you’re waitlisted. And she audiotapes everything and puts it online if you miss a seminar.</p>
<p>The HCEC committee that write your committee letter is also very good. Their job is to make you “walk on water” as my HCEC interviewer put it. The HCEC committee letter will let you bypass any med school’s individual LOR requirements. That letter can be substituted for the typical 3 letters that med schools require. And they prefer/require the committee letter. Some top schools <em>cough Stanford cough</em> don’t have a committee for some inexplicable reason.</p>
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<p>Lots of volunteering opportunities available from tutoring disadvantaged high school students to volunteering at the hospital to working at soup kitchens. I did all 3 and they were EASY to get.</p>
<p>Cornell also has two programs (both of which I did as well) which pairs you with local doctors to shadow so you don’t have to cold-call doctors on your own. One of the docs (a Cornell alumnus) even offered me his Cornell hockey tickets.</p>
<p>How would Cornell premed (I was accepted to the Human Biology, Health, and Society major in HumEc) compare to Williams premed?</p>
<p>I’m sure Williams does very well in med school admissions. The main advantage of LAC’s is that they have smaller classes and they can hold your hand more. I absolutely HATE small schools and did not apply to any LAC’s. I’m the type that don’t want people constantly on my back. I like to take care of my own ****. However, for some, LAC’s are a blessing. Cornell can offer you everything that Williams can. But, it may not be laid out in the open like at a LAC.</p>
<p>About the research comment. Undergraduate research here is actually very common and fairly prevalent. If you are willing and motivated enough, you will find it, and you will do it.</p>
<p>The question isn’t if, it’s when.</p>
<p>what about duke? does cornell compare to duke for premed? so far, i’ve heard otherwise but i really am leaning towards cornell.</p>
<p>Relative to big school (e.g., Cornell) vs. small school (LAC), I am going with large schools for my children. I attended a small school (caltech) in early 80s (when the school had 1k UG and 1k Grad) for doctoral program, but I saw the disadvantage of small schools since-- that it tends to disappear from college conversations and hard to run into alumni. I did enjoy greatly the campus life, even the secretaries and librarians knew your name. But once you finish and leave, you tend to want a large almuni.</p>
<p>so the kind of opportunity that cornell offfers such as research, internship, and hospital work, those r the things u need to do to increase ur chance to go to med school right? and of course 3.4+ gpa and a 30+ mcat score</p>
<p>yeaaa, though grade / mcat is still the most important</p>