<p>i'm confused, i know the top medical schools, but if it has a good med school does that mean its a good pre-med school too?</p>
<p>for ex. like harvard, penn, yale, washU, JHU they're all top medical schools, but are they good for pre-med (ie undergrad with sights on med school)?</p>
<p>Eh, premed is the same throughout the spectrum. Premed is just a set of requirements of courses set out by AMCAS that includes coursework such as general bio, intro chem, organic chemistry, physics, calculus, english etc…
The only difference you will find is that premed advising offices differ from school to school. The competitive level of atmosphere changes from school to school as well, as well as the grading scales, whether or not they proactively engage in grade inflation or deflation too is a sign of how intensely they weed out weaklings and how much they support undergrad can be viewed from medical school acceptance rates.</p>
<p>To make things short, typically, good schools with fine premed advising offices have experienced officiers that are transcended from medical school affiliation. You have the luxury of talking to former deans of admissions at Hopkins, that packages up your for admissions into medical school real nice for example, so yes, that is pretty much the general guideline but this is not true for every other place in the country.</p>
<p>We at Hopkins have one of the top two or three premed programs in the country, and Lots of schools do not offer a committee system, or may not offer it more than once but if an individuals does change their mind later in life, the committee system and the premed advising office will still exist to support them even after the fact that they graduated.</p>
<p>in short, the two are more or less unrelated. The trend you observe is simply because smallish selective private schools in general tend to have good premed advising in general, and many of the top research med schools are affiliated with these kinds of institutions.</p>