<p>Flawed stats!! Students with 3.5+GPA/30+ MCAT at Emory have a 90% medical school acceptance rate. If you have lower stats than that, you shouldn’t really expect much from med schools anyways, regardless of your undergrad institution.</p>
<p>I can’t say anything about Rice, but Emory has been a fantastic experience for me. I’m a pre-med student majoring in Anthropology & Linguistics, and I’m loving every second. There’s an incredible amount of opportunity for research, volunteering, study abroad, and just general extracurricular involvement. The academics are intellectually stimulating, and with the new system of loose GERs, you have so much space to pursue diverse interests!</p>
<p>True, we don’t have a football team…THANK GOD!!! Our supposed ‘lack’ of school spirit stems from students who just keep repeating that we ‘have no school spirit’…I don’t know who mandated their apathy, but essentially, you can love the school as much/as little as you want to. Whether you pick Rice or Emory, it’ll be up to you make the most of it. Good luck next year!</p>
<p>^^^ okay, but then why do half of the pre-meds that apply from Emory score below a 30 on the mcats? Rice has more 30+ mcat scores than emory, so does cornell, duke, vanderbilt, and Northwestern…(and don’t tell me its because these schools “screen” their applicants, because they don’t, the only top 20 school that “screens” their applicants is JHU…Emory churns out kids with really high gpas, but really low mcats, which makes med school admissions committee think that the school is grade inflated…</p>
<p>by looking at the chart…half the kids score below a 30 + on the mcats…and norcalguy brought it too my attention and then I realized he was right…</p>
<p>I am highly skeptical of schools that advertise to the public they have 80 or 90 percent of their pre-meds getting into med school. See the student doctor network forum for why.</p>
<p>Please don’t get too caught up in all of those statistics. I was really worried about the same thing at this time last year, but I’ve come to realize that statistics mean nothing. YOU are not a statistic, so it doesn’t matter what percentage of students get a certain score or what percentage get into a certain medical school, because none of that has any effect on YOUR MCAT score or YOUR chances of admission. All I know is this: If you come to Emory and work your tail off in your classes, you will end up with a solid GPA, and if you put in the time necessary to study for the MCAT, you’ll get a decent score. I’ve watched numerous upperclassmen go through the medical school application process with phenomenal MCAT scores and get accepted to great medical schools.</p>
<p>Are you sure about the screening thing? I mean I haven’t researched it or anything, but many of my friends at Emory are premed and being the kind of students they are, I’m sure they know what they’re talking about.</p>
<p>But anyways, if you’re worried about not getting into med school based off of Emory’s stats, then don’t go to Emory. You’ll go to med school if you want to go to med school. It’s not the fault of Emory that kids don’t get into med school, it’s their fault for not putting enough work into their years at college. </p>
<p>Asking these kinds of questions will really get you nowhere. Study hard, volunteer at hospitals/research, do well on the MCATs. It’s on you, not the college.</p>
<p>what about the screening thing, jhu is the only top 20 school that screens its applicants…emory/rice/nu/jhu/duke/washu/cornell don’t screen their applicant.</p>
<p>“I am highly skeptical of schools that advertise to the public they have 80 or 90 percent of their pre-meds getting into med school. See the student doctor network forum for why.”</p>
<p>Ehh, I actually would be skeptic of schools that don’t tell the public their acceptance rate. Rice gives a detailed account to where students got accepted. So does Duke and JHU tells the public about their accepted students. UM also gives a percentage. So I have to say, I’m skeptic why Emory doesn’t tell the public…
I would recommend you to go to Rice.</p>
<p>lol…Emory does tell the public, hence all the figures we’ve been discussing in this threat. Emory has provided detailed pre med’s GPA, MCAT, etc. correlating to acceptance.
Success is all you make it, regardless of school. Grow up and depend on yourself!</p>
<p>Just a disclosure, I am a Rice '13 who got accepted to Emory but turned it down.</p>
<p>My reasons for doing this were:
merit-based financial aid (I applied for Emory Scholars but never made semifinals)
Rice-Baylor med program
proximity to Texas Medical Center, general Houston-area medical complex. Emory has the CDC and tons of hospitals nearby, and Emory was really the only school that competed with Rice for me in this area. So you can’t really go wrong with either.
Rice’s residential college system. This kind of depends on what kind of person you are. Rice is a generally small school with individual colleges (think houses in Hogwarts). This makes it easy for people to make friends, since the colleges are extremely inclusive and everyone has equal footing regardless of background. I don’t really know that much about the social scene at Emory…I assume there’s Greek life, which Rice doesn’t have at all. Many people find that this is the deciding factor. It’s really a personal decision which type of social scene you think you’d find best, but this is a big difference between the two schools.</p>
<p>Other people can probably elaborate on sports, school spirit, etc. which I really don’t know that much about. haha.
good luck! =)</p>
<p>Hmm, actually Emory is right up there with Rice. Two of my siblings go
to both (one goes to Emory the other, Rice). Personally, I think the
Rice-Baylor program really sets Rice apart in terms of Medicine compared
to Emory but for departments like Political Science and other aspects like
Pre-Law, Emory is definitely better.</p>
<p>And as for melin’s comment on “name recognition,” as I’ve said before,
Emory is definitely as high (if not higher) as Rice…Internationally, that is.</p>
<p>And I don’t have any prejudice against or for either of the colleges. My
siblings blab about how great each one of them are but the truth is,
I will never apply or go to a college that someone in my family went to.
I pave my own path! :D</p>