drexel/drexel bs/md

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>i am about to choose this program over uc berkeley and ucla..(i cant get myself to send in the statement of intent ahh). anyway, i have a few questions. is it possible to have fun and do well in the bs/md program? is drexel even a fun place? also hjow is it socially?</p>

<p>i keep switiching between berkeley and drexel/drexel. berk seems so much better, as in you get the whole college experience, while the people at drexel only find it okay. but then again berkeley is cut throat competitive while drexel is giving me that guaranteed seat into med school.</p>

<p>Im in a dilemma here and i need to make my decision really quickly. </p>

<p>ANY iinput will be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>I'm at Drexel for BS/MD as a Biomedical Engineering major. The Engineering curriculum is very difficult. I also happen to really not like Drexel and I am transferring out. </p>

<p>If you are a biology major, you could pretty much party here 7 days a week and still be fine. The only people who do work at this school are the Engineers, seriously. Everyone else does nothing in comparison. </p>

<p>To have fun at Drexel, you will have to go to Penn for parties. The parties here are lame and frequented by the police.</p>

<p>Oddly enough, however, the campus isn't safe. I know several people in my Residence Hall alone who have been mugged at gunpoint just TWO BLOCKS north of the dorm (I'm in East hall on North 32nd Street). There is no real campus, and no part of it is safe. You should never be out around here alone at night. Mind you, West of Penn's campus is also really nasty (the mid-high 30's and beyond).</p>

<p>Students on the whole are unhappy with the school. The school accepts 80% of applicants, mostly based on the ability to pay (That isn't a joke, my dad formerly was the Provost of the school), so it's everyone's backup. Also, there's a huge inferiority complex to Penn. </p>

<p>The BS/MD students are not really high caliber. I've heard somebody on here say that they've heard Drexel accepts 1200 SATs for the BS/MD program, and I don't think that's an exaggeration. Some of these people are absolute morons who do nothing but drink. I don't even know how they got in. </p>

<p>If you come here from CA you will be one of a handful of out-of-state students, and none of us PA natives understand why the hell any of them come here. Almost everyone I know goes home on the weekends because all of us are from a 30 min radius of campus. Campus is DEAD as of Friday afternoon.</p>

<p>This is the most socially awkward school ever. Since everyone goes home all the time, nobody has a true college experience. It's high school with a dorm for the weekdays. Only freshman live on campus, also. SOME upperclassmen live in the one upperclassmen dorm for half of the year, while they are not on Co-Op. Co-op destroys the social atmosphere of Drexel. If it were not for my Sophomore Level Differential Equations class, I would not know any non-freshman * at all *. </p>

<p>My Advice: Go to Berkeley and enjoy a wonderful college experience (though I imagine the vast majority of students are from CA, almost nobody comes to Drexel from out of state). Guaranteed med school admission to me is not worth being here.</p>

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<p>agreed. that sounds like a terrible experience. good luck transferring out.</p>

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<p>man this is a hard choice. i cant decide if i should give up a seat in med school, bcz berkeley is so insanely competitive.</p>

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<p>If I was you, I would go to Drexel. If worse comes to worse, transfer out of Drexel after 1 year...I don't think it is that hard to transfer to Berkeley or whatever college you are thinking about. At least give it a try, you have nothing to lose.</p>

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<p>yo sick off florida</p>

<p>you get in?</p>