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<p>Yeah Baylor isn’t for me. Will look into TCU and SMU. At a glance, I think I like SMU more. I am also considering business if it wouldn’t hamper my medical school admissions, I know it would be beneficial if I decided to become a dentist.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I agree now. My dad took all the same classes pre-meds take as a mechanical engineering major. I looked up mech e degree requirements and they take english, physics, and chem at GT. Aside from biology, it’s the same. I’m sure there will be a lot of STEM kids in the bio classes as well.</p>
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<p>I’d think BC would be in the same realm as ND, UVA, etc. My SAT score is slightly below average by about 50 points, not the best scenario for pre-med. UNC is very hard to get in OOS. </p>
<p>If my family reassures me that they can afford Miami, I’ll apply ED. I think I have a very good chance if I apply ED.</p>
<p>Look into doing UMiami EA – from what I remember reading, it’s a bigger advantage. I could be wrong. Search around for it.</p>
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<p>Miami’s EA has ~50% acceptance rate vs ED’s ~30% acceptance rate. However, I believe that to be attributed to lower quality students applying ED to see if they get in. Logic would say that if I applied ED rather than EA, I would have the best chance possible. ED means you have to go there and it shows the most interest, so I think someone with my up to par stats would have a better chance with ED. It shows that I’m passionate about going to The U and it would automatically give them a good well-rounded student, rather than let him choose from cheaper colleges to add to their 20% yield rate.</p>
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<p>What do you know about its name recognition? If I end up living in Florida or Texas, I want people to know about the school I went to. I’ve never heard of the school. For example, my dad who works at Georgetown, laughed at my mom when she asked if I wanted to go to U of Richmond. He thought it was a CC or something, when it’s really a top 25 LAC. He wants me to go somewhere with good name recognition.</p>
<p>*Would the GTech STEM students take the same classes as a premed?
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<p>the premed prereqs are the same classes that STEM students take…</p>
<p>Bio I
bio II
Gen Chem I
Gen Chem II
OChem I
Ochem II
Physics I
Physics II
Calculus
and other recommended classes: BioChem, Genetics, etc.</p>
<p>so, the classmates in the premed prereqs will be STEM students. There aren’t unique classes for premed prereqs.</p>
<p>Maryland as in state tuition looks pretty good decent sports but University of Georgia good school good sports</p>
<p>What I meant was, at Emory, OU, and even Berkeley there are special sections of classes for bio/life science majors but are in effect designed for premeds. Such classes include physics, Calc, chem, and maybe one or two others. Generally those in hard science fields DO NOT take such courses which means that the OP wouldn’t compete with the STEM students (bio majors excluded). I was wondering if GT offered such courses or if premeds took the same classes as the engineers, physics students, etc.</p>
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<p>Udayton is well known among Catholics in the MidAtlantic and Midwest/North, roughly. If you’re concerned about name recognition, Marquette is similar but with more name recognition.
Med schools won’t care though. They’ll care about your GPA (especially your science GPA) and your MCAT score. Then as extras, whether you did research with/for a prof, published something in a journal, shadowed/interned, etc.
I agree with whenhen: check to see if the school is big enough to have special sections for premeds separate from the engineering sections. If not, drop the school from your list as it’ll kill your GPA, and med schools don’t care why your GPA is lower/lowish.
OP, I hope your dad isn’t on any admission committee :p, or that he looks up the schools the candidates come from. I assume he was kidding though, because I must say it’s kind of frightening to imagine someone at Georgetown who wouldn’t know a top college, let alone a college from his own region - kind of like if someone at UCLA wouldn’t know about Occidental :d. Not trying to rib your dad at all, but rather asking: Are you sure he wasn’t just kidding?
URichmond is a very good school and it does have good reputation. Some people may not know of it outside the South, especially if they mostly know schools based on football teams, but people “in the know” will know it. Anyway med schools don’t care where you went to school, they look at your GPA (so a private, smaller school is better) and your MCAT (so a school that has good science facilities and a health profession advising committee is better, plus with the new MCAT it helps if you had strong English/ intro psychology/intro sociology classes vs. a school where Psych or Soc 101 are “guts”.)
So if you like URichmond, look into it, don’t discard it just because your dad laughed at your mom for suggesting it. :)</p>
<p>I will look into that stuff.</p>
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<p>URichmond is too small for me and doesn’t have good sports, so I wouldn’t be happy there. But he wasn’t kidding, he honestly has never heard of it. He’s not an adcom; he’s an engineer and is the VP of facilities and operations. He only cares about his alma mater, WVU, and Georgetown lol…and wherever I choose to go. He looked it up though and realizes that it’s a well respected LAC. I know more about schools from using this site than anyone in my family.</p>
<p>Another thing that draws me to UM is the medical scholars program. 3.7 GPA and 30 MCAT = auto acceptance to the Miller School of Medicine. I would try hard to get accepted into the program.</p>
<p>Yes the medical scholars is a great program. Can you get into um’s honors program</p>
<p>What I meant was, at Emory, OU, and even Berkeley there are special sections of classes for bio/life science majors but are in effect designed for premeds. Such classes include physics, Calc, chem, and maybe one or two others. Generally those in hard science fields DO NOT take such courses which means that the OP wouldn’t compete with the STEM students (bio majors excluded). I was wondering if GT offered such courses or if premeds took the same classes as the engineers, physics students, etc.</p>
<p>I have heard that Cal offers a few different versions of bio/life sciences, but I don’t know how common that is. Many schools offer a couple different types…one for STEM/Pre-meds…and one for “non majors”. Some may also offer ones that are for nursing majors. </p>
<p>However, typically the Gen Chem and Orgo versions for premeds are the same ones that STEM students take. That said, sometimes some of the premeds don’t have to take Physics w/Calc if their major doesn’t require that version. Math & Eng’g premeds have to take the Physics w/Calc versions typically.</p>
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<p>No, the general honor’s program is 1400 SAT and top 5% as an incoming freshman. However you can get into it if you have a 3.5 UM gpa in your first or second year.</p>
<p>You’re at 1340, it’s not a stretch to think you can reach 1400. Same thing for universities with a 3.5 GPA: you’ve got 3.48, it’s totally within reach for you. 3.5 for a 3.48 is “realistic”. :)</p>
<p>Even if I get a 1400, it’s 1400 AND top 5%. I’m only top 15%. </p>
<p>Do you think being in the honor’s program would help with med school admissions at all? I’m confident that I’ll get at least a 3.5 freshman year and would be able to get into the program.</p>
<p>What about schools where I’m well-above average? Looking for D1 sports, good weather, decent class size, merit aid.</p>
<p>ASU would fit this, for example. </p>
<p>Looking for schools where I could get a good GPA for medical/dental school.</p>
<p>It’s easier to get a good GPA at a private school but there aren’t many D1 private schools where you’d be well above average.
Would you be able to compromise on D1 sports if the college were in a city with a good professional sports team for example?</p>
<p>Some of the schools below are commuter schools but fit your request for good weather, merit aid, and sports. Not sure how easy it’d be to get good grades though.
What about UNM’s honors college which requires 3.5 and 1860 (and makes exceptions on the 3.5 if you write an essay)? Good weather, D1 sports?
University of Utah’s Honors only requires a 3.5 then looks at your essay and your test scores.
University of Colorada Denver/medical looks like it’d be okay for you (they want top 10% class rank or top 10% SAT).
University of West Florida wants 3.5 and 1770 for their honors program.
UNiversity of North Florida wants a 3.09 and 1243 IF you were not invited into the program due to higher GPA/scores combination.
Florida International UNiversity wants a 3.5 and 1850.</p>
<p>It’s primarily for safeties. I might go to a safety if I think I’ll do better there. UM is still my #1, I just don’t want to go there and get below a 3.5. Med/dental school > undergrad for me.</p>
<p>I think ASU might actually be a really good fit if I got into Barrett. Would only be $21,000 a year + airfare.</p>
<p>Yes, I’d compromise on that for a city with sports. I’d like the school to be fairly well known though. A good example of a private school like that might be American U. I’m not “well above average” but my scores are close to the 75th percentile. I do like the Nationals and Redskins.</p>
<p>I’ll look into them.</p>