<p>I know that there is no "right" answer when it comes to picking a good premed college, but I've been doing some looking and visiting campuses and these two seem like really good fits for me. </p>
<p>Do any of you all see a reason to prefer one over the other with a pre-med degree in mind? I know that Vanderbilt has that early med school admission program for really good freshmen but is this a considerable advantage over a program that Emory would offer?</p>
<p>Also, if you have any suggestions of other colleges to look at that are sort of in the same "range" as Emory and Vandy, I would really appreciate it.</p>
<p>I have a decent high school GPA (3.9) and a 1410 on the SAT, so I'm not really looking at Ivy League or anything. I do hope to go to a really good medical school though like Duke or Johns Hopkins, so I'm basically looking for a somewhat prestigious school that's not known for grade inflation and will prepare me well for a challenging med school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help...I hope that my question isn't being asked for the millionth time.</p>
<p>Emory has an atrocious pre-med program. I believe that someone in a previous thread linked to an Emory statistic from their website that displayed a 50% acceptance rate to medical school.</p>
<p>Don't even bother applying to Emory. Go with Vandy on this one.</p>
<p>Obviously, a program can be truly abysmal and still not be superior to the comparator. Check on Vandy's information before going further, as well as verifying Emory's.</p>
<p>In any case, check out Davidson, Wake, Elon. They might potentially be horrific, or they might be very good. I don't know anything about the three.</p>
<p>Emory has some great opportunities for premeds with a top med school, CDC, and other institutions near campus where you can perform some great research and have some good premed experiences. I would say that it is fine for premeds, but talk to a bunch of current premeds to see if it's the advising, tough grading, or something else that hurts Emory's med school admit rate.</p>
<p>You should also keep an eye out for WashU, NU , Rice, Hopkins, Georgetown, and USC. They are all about or slightly above Vandy and Emory in terms of selectivity.</p>
<p>So if you have above a 3.4 GPA and above a 30 MCAT, your chances of getting into med school from Emory are about above 80%. </p>
<p>It's not Emory's fault that about 100 students with MCAT scores 26 and bellow applied to med schools and that about 50 with GPAs less than 3.1. (people with these stats generally do not get into med schools right?)</p>
<p>Weeding is bad, but sometimes I do wonder about "mercy" weeding. (I remember one statistic posted here talking about students with 11's trying to apply to medical schools.)</p>
<p>I will note that Emory has about 100 more premeds than many schools. So that might explain some of it, too.</p>
<p>The following is not based on any data whatsoever and the numbers stated are completely arbitrary. With that said, here's how I feel.</p>
<p>A top-flight school -- complete with advising, extracurriculars, research opportunities -- should be able to protect any student with straight 9's on the MCAT and no grades lower than a B. (In fact, that's already being pretty strict on the GPA side of things. I certainly had a rather important C.)</p>
<p>That includes, you'll notice, 3.0 27's. It's my opinion off the top of my head that schools should be able to get students like that into SOME allopathic program. The floors should drop even lower for osteopathic programs.</p>
<p>(To make clear once more, I am NOT saying that every 27, 3.0 should be able to get into medical school. For example, if you got a 27 with a 15-1-11, that's a historically atrocious MCAT score. Or a 3.0 that's composed of half A's and half C's is, again, atrocious. But a 3.0 that's straight B's, or a 27 that's straight 9's -- premeds with the right resources should be able to get in SOMEWHERE if only they apply correctly.)</p>
<p>This is unrelated to the topic at hand -- since no comparison data is provided, I am not picking on Emory -- and for that I apologize. It might turn out that my standards are ridiculous and unrealistic and that, for all I know, not even Duke and Penn can achieve what I think they should. I must emphasize again that I am just making things up off the top of my head.</p>
<p>But that is nonetheless the way that I feel. If you made at least straight 9's and at least straight B's, I think it should be your school's responsibility to see that you're admitted someplace.</p>
<p>PS: Yes, Weasel, I was rerferring to the MCATs.</p>