I’m a high school senior and was accepted at both these schools. I am looking for a place that prepares me well for med school but doesn’t make it unbelievably hard to pass the pre med classes. Essentially, I want to be able to have fun, do research, community service, play music, and the whole nine yards, but I also want great teaching and I want to go to med school. I understand that about half of all pre meds drop out at Duke and don’t even end up applying. What’s the scene at WashU?
Hi. I don’t go to WashU, but am currently visiting. I’ll base this response off of what a current biology major told me. From what I gather, there are lots and lots of premed in either BME or biology (mostly). Courses are tough, but I have not yet met a single stressed out person here. The atmosphere is really relaxed. What work you put in to your major classes is the result you’ll get, and most of them seems to be able to have lots of social time but also study well. There aren’t much homework in the sciences courses, but you better do the suggested book problems as the tests are based on much of them.
Who told you that half of all pre meds at Duke don’t end up applying?
First of all, is money an issue? if so, just pick the one that gives you more money–both schools are top pre-med schools so you’re lucky! Visit both schools if you can…consider location–Missouri or North Carolina?
@NerdyChica I got that info from a few Duke undergrads I spoke to.
@karlavvv money isn’t really a problem and visiting is a problem as I’m an international.
^ Must be a handful of disgruntled former pre-meds. 50% is way too high! I’m sure some people genuinely discovered other interests but that has nothing to do with classes being “unbelievably hard”