For undergrad why not look at Brandeis and Northeastern. Highly regarded schools with good pre-med.
@gallentjill
Will search about those schools and see if they fit
Have you considered Emory? We are strong in the life sciences.
Another school I would add on the list would be Tulane.
@TheTennisNinja
Are you an Emory student?
heard Emory has grade deflation- that’s a reason why Emory was not considered.
@Hamurtle
Thank you for suggesting Tulane.
Will look it up…
If grade deflation is an issue, why are Duke and UCLA on your list? One strategy is to choose a less intense major: my niece majored in Psych for her premed at a well regarded southern private uni and was accepted to her instate med school. It was her only acceptance. She had close to 4.0 and very good mcat scores. She feels her gpa would have been lower if she had majored in a stem field. Same demographic as your child.
@momprof9904
As I had posted earlier- we are aware of UC grade deflation, so UCLA not high in our list.
We visited Duke recently and talked to premed students there- We were told that Duke has grade inflation than deflation
Reg your niece- if she had near perfect gpa and good MCAT( I hope it was around 95-97th percentile when you said good) was she lacking ECs when she applied to Med school?
If she likes Brown, she would probably like Tufts. If she likes Duke, probably Tulane. But a lot of these schools have a pretty different feel to them. Has she thought about that at all?
“But places like Duke/Rice/Brown/Penn have high medschool placement rates & …resources …& curriculum…in a way to boost med school application.”
Or it could be that there is a high concentration of very smart/accomplished students, and the actual school curriculum doesn’t very that much at all.
@ammaMD Yes I am. I actually found that there isn’t much grade deflation here. Of course, it depends on what professors the classes are taught by but I have found everything to be pretty manageable.
@gardenstategal- actually tufts is a good one, I agree.
Shawnspencer- that must be one of the reasons.
TheTennisNinja- that’s a good info and Emory is back in our list if there’s no grade deflation.
@ammaMD My niece had lots of medical related Ec’s. It’s just that competitive for the Asian demographic. You can Google the acceptance stats broken down by mcat score and ethnicity. And that doesn’t even factor in the holistic pieces.
My niece did land a very good residency, however.
She had very good EC’s. A top of the line applicant . It’s a very competitive applicant pool . I do not think there are explicit quotas according to ethnicity, but the admission is holistic, which can be whatever the admissions people want it to mean. She did get into her instate med school, which has a 10% acceptance rate, and has a residency in an in-demand specialty.