<p>For pre-med, which would be the better choice academically?</p>
<p>Honestly, pre-med is just a bunch of courses that you need to take. Both of these are fine schools, so you can get a fine “pre-med” education at either, but in terms of national reputation, GU is way above Wake Forest. Much also depends on which school you just happen to like better.</p>
<p>Alright, by pre-med I assume you mean that you want to go to med school (yea I know that’s obvious)?</p>
<p>So, here’s the deal, in terms of getting into med school. The most important factor is your MCAT score. The second most important factor is your GPA. After that, come factors like your letters of recommendation, your activities, your essays, your interview, etc. Way after that comes the school name factor. In other words, whether you pick Georgetown or Wake Forest will make only an incredibly marginal impact on whether you get into med school.</p>
<p>Here’s another fact, though, a very large number of people go into college planning to be pre-med, but many of them never go to med school. Somewhere along the way, they decide to go another route, and if you go another route that’s where the Georgetown v. Wake Forest matters more. So, here are the questions you need to ask: What do you want to major in? Other than medicine, what are your interests? Which school is better for those?</p>
<p>^^Well said. I agree with almost everything you said (wish I’d said it myself!).
The only exception is this: when med school adcoms look at GPA, they are conscious of both the undergrad institution where, and the majors in which, those GPAs were earned. As a friend of mine who is on the adcom of a top medical school told me, a 3.6 in English (yes, there are many premeds who major in English) or probably even in bio from U. Del. is not remotely the same as a 3.6 in physics from Northwestern or in biomedical engineering from Wash U.<br>
I have given a fairly obvious example here; you can fill in from there.</p>