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You keep to calculate your EFC right now, then go ask your parents if they can afford to pay that each year for your college.
If they say yes, you need colleges that meet need (+ colleges where your test scores are top 10%).
If they say they can’t, your choices change completely to colleges offering sufficient merit aid.
Before you make any list you need that information.
^ At that point, these colleges could become your most promising options:
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I am also a dependent of a veteran, so I am eligible for post 9/11 GI bills.
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Are you an only child? If not, how will those benefits get split amongst the kids?
Did your parent transfer GI Bill education benefits to child/ren by the deadline?
Please talk to your parents.
@mom2collegekids I currently have a 4.0 unweighted GPA and 32 ACT. I am hoping to increase my ACT scores though. Also, I have talked to my parents in regards to the GI bills. I have an older brother and the benefits are being split 50/50. I should get around 20k out of state for 2 years followed by 7k for 2 years. In state (Ky) tuition is waived and I get a stipend for housing. Thanks!
I wouldn’t overindex on a public health major - or rather, I wouldn’t exclude colleges that otherwise appeal to you because they don’t have a public health major. Public health is an interdisciplinary field, and many newer public health majors are actually health-related classes from a lot of other majors (mostly social sciences and biology). Most MPH candidates/students don’t have public health majors from undergrad. (My PhD is in public health.) There may be great places to learn about public health and take courses that don’t have a public health major (like Columbia, which as far as I know doesn’t yet offer a major but has a world-class health/medicine complex attached to the school and offers classes to undergrads in the area).
I second the recommendation of University of Rochester; they have several public health majors.University of Richmond has a healthcare studies major, although that’s not strictly speaking the same thing. American University has a public health major and a health promotion major. Tufts also has a community health major. Ithaca College has a major in public and community health. Baylor also has a major in community health. The Five College consortium (Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, Smith, and UMass-Amherst) offers a certificate in Culture, Health, and Society that can be earned by students at any of the five colleges. Duke offers a second major in Global Health.
My son will also be using the Post 9/11 GI Bill, and I’m not seeing how your numbers are adding up if you are splitting the benefits 50/50 with your brother, unless you are getting more months from VA disability and the DEA program. If you are both in college full-time for 9 months of the year, then the 36 months would be gone after each of you finished your second years. Unless you are getting benefits from both parents - then that would make more sense. But then you would have even more money than you are saying - you could each get the full 36 months, or four years at 9 months each.
does UNC chapel hill have a good pre med program?
The sciences are very strong, and UNC has the strongest marine science program in NC along with Duke, with which it cooperates both in the Triangle and in Beaufort/Morehead City. On the other hand, the sciences have some of the most ruthless grading on campus. In spring 2010, the most recent data available, the average GPAs in biology (2.45), chemistry (2.65), geology (2.90), and physics (2.76) were significantly lower than in subjects like English (3.48) and Italian (3.40).
https://regweb.unc.edu/gpa_subj
In other words, you can get a very good science education at UNC, but you must be prepared to work extremely hard for the good grades you’ll need for med school.
^ another way to put it is that your odds of going to led school decrease substantially if you’re a biology majorbat unc.
Thanks, I will probably not apply there then. Does anyone know about Emory’s pre med?
Agreed, but I’d go further and say your chances are decreased at almost any university as a biology major. A combination of large, impersonal lecture classes and brutal curves can wreck your GPA as a bio major, particularly at the very selective and/or rigorous colleges. Anecdotally, at least, the pre-med biology majors at all of the universities I’ve attended and/or taught at seem much more stressed out than any other students.
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It’s what Emory is known for, and it is done well. It is fairly rigorous compared to some of it’s peers( not as hard as John’s Hopkins and MAYBE WUSTL). The Chem department is very rigorous and is being revamped for the upcoming semester. Med school acceptance rate is high around 85-90+% for students with a 3.4+ and a 30+ on the MCAT.
Emory’s got another very competitive pre-med program. Not sure you can get the gpa data that @warblersrule got as Emory is private and I doubt publishes it.
Thanks @VANDEMORY1342 . @warblersrule So do you think majoring in chemistry is better for pre meds than biology?
It doesn’t matter what you major in as long as you do the med school required courses. Since they are mostly science courses, that can make a science major a good choice since you have to take so many anyway - if you enjoy science. I think the highest # of required pre-med courses are in Chemistry.
True. The highest number of required premed requirements are in chemistry. But you could major in Russian or Economics or Anthropology or Digital Media and if you can handle being top 10-20% in your science pre-reqs too, you’d be well-prepared for the med school admission cycle.