Hi everyone! I am trying to figure out the best choice for a college for going into pre-med.
I want to go to a school where I will have the best chances of acceptance into med-school
with a good program. I am deciding between Baylor, Loyola Chicago, and Marquette.
Please let me know!
Thanks for your help!
What can your family afford. What are you stats?
Have you already been admitted?
What’s net cost at each?
(Tuition, fees, room, board) - (grants, scholarships) =
I am the last of five kids. I have been accepted into all of the schools mentioned. My parents are willing to pay and I have 17,000 per year at Loyola Chicago.
Can you made answer the question about net cost?
Amount of scholarship doesn’t tell us net cost nor whether it’s within budget.
The school is within budget. My parents are willing to pay. The tuition is at Loyola Chicago is 60,000.
Loyola and Marquette are Catholic. Baylor is Baptist. Does that affect things?
Have you visited? Done an overnight?
Email the Health Committee at each and ask if they write committee letters for all premeds or only the candidates they feel have the best chance. Ask them what percentage students get A’s in the freshman chemistry, biology, and calculus.
I am Catholic but that is not necessarily shaping my decision.
I am visiting Loyola next week, sitting in on a class, touring, and talking to an admissions counselor. I will ask these questions. I appreciate your help!
I do not think that any of those will improve your chances of selection over any other. They are all good programs that will provide you the quality of education and advising that you need to proceed to med school if you are capable and willing to put in the work. Within US universities, red flag schools for people wanting to go to Med School are typically schools focused on the arts where your hard sciences are only taught as an afterthought, and schools which would be an academic reach for you, so that you risk being unable to compete for GPA with others in your class.
Highly recommend Marquette. I was a Youth Options student there this year, and because they have a separate college for Health Sciences (where most premed majors go) that’s really strong and gives you TONS of opportunities. Plus I’ve come to nurture a very strong relationship with my professors and TAs and they’re all very accessible, which is not something I have heard at Loyola. I know several Loyola-Marquette transfers who left because of how unhappy they were with their professors at Loyola. I don’t know much about Baylor, to be completely fair, but I can give you a ringing recommendation for Marquette. If you have any other questions about Marquette I’d be more than happy to answer!
Plus if you’ve ever visited Milwaukee, it’s quite the place to be.
Again, highly, highly recommend.
Thank you for your recommendation I really appreciate it! I also was just accepted into the college of the holy cross in Massachusetts. Do you know anything about that school? I am interested in going there as well.
I will take a closer look at Marquette now. Thanks again.
For someone who is otherwise looking at Jesuit schools, I’m not sure Baylor is a fit. Have you visited there? Make sure you would be comfortable at an evangelical school in a red state.
HOly Cross is one of the top Catholic colleges in the US along with Notre Dame and Georgetown. So… wow, congratulations! However it’s very hard on premeds.
Baylor University is SUPER big on pre-med. A lot of people go to Baylor for pre-med because they have so many outlets and opportunities. Internships, shadowing doctors, and research opportunities are highly stressed at Baylor and these things are KEY into getting you at the door of applying for med school!
Baylor pays attention to their Pre-med students