Good Premed Programs I can actually get into

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Hi, I was wondering if you can help me come up with some good premed schools or recommend which ones I should apply to out of this list.</p>

<p>Here are schools I’m considering, but you can recommend ones outside this list:

  1. Ohio State
    Pros- Great athletics and social scene, Ohio has a lot of medical schools that like instaters, would have easy classes
    Cons- No national reputation except in football, Huge classes</p>

<li><p>University of Washington
Pros- Best med school in country, Good location, Great Name Nationally
Cons- Washington only has 1 med school that doesn’t favor instaters, Huge classes, harder to get 4.0, but still not too hard</p></li>
<li><p>Case Western
Pros- Excellent Academics especially in medicine, Pretty good city, Cheap, Ohio has lots of medical schools that favor instaters (this is important to me)
Cons- Horrible social life, nothing to do, nerd school, harder to get 4.0</p></li>
<li><p>University of Miami
Pros- Supposed to have great Premed, Awesome City and athletics, good social life, favors people who go to their undergrad for their med school
Cons- Way to expensive for what its worth.</p></li>
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<p>5-? (your suggestions)
pros- (what do you think?)
cons- (what do you think?)</p>

<p>So below are my stats, so can you recomend some good programs for me?
Things I really want to have:
-A place where I can be close to or at the top
-Not very expensive
-State has a lot of medical schools that accept a lot of instaters
-Professors are accessible and can easily get to know me.</p>

<p>Things I’d like to have, but not a necessity
-Good sports teams
-Prestige of School
-Near a major city (within an hour driving)</p>

<p>btw you dont have to find pros and cons, any suggestions are welcome.</p>

<p>Here are my stats:
*I am an Asian Indian Male
*From a competitive public high school in Oregon, Beaverton High School, which was also rated the best AP school in Oregon, so yeah, its a smart school.
*student body at school = 500+</p>

<p>The Numbers/ECs
*Freshman year:
4.0 with honors in 2 classes for both semesters</p>

<p>*Sophomore Year:
3.8125 overall for both semesters
(Bs in AP Chem 1st sem, Precalc 2nd sem, Social Studies 1st sem)</p>

<p>*Junior Year (projected)
Human Anat/Phys-A,A
IB Bio HL 1-A,A
Spanish 3-A,A
IB Calculus-A, A (might be at worst 1 “B”)
IB Psychology-A,A
Team Sports-A
IB English-B,B (might get 1 A)
IB Tok 1-B</p>

<p>IN SUMMARY: I should finish high school with at the very very worst a 3.67 or 3.7 UW GPA, but I’ll do what ever I can to prevent that from happening.</p>

<p>*class rank UW right now = 38/515. Weighted = 30/515 (will go up because not many kids have taken hard classes yet)
*IB Diploma Candidate (to be)
*Varsity tennis 4 years (will have 4)
*Science Team 4 years (will have 4)
*World Quest Trivia 4 years (will have 4)
*Science Club Treasurer (1 year)
*Science Club VP (2 years)
*Math Club VP (2 years)
*Portland Youth Philharmonic (will have 3 years)
*Mathfest Algebra 2 1st place freshman year
*OIMT Participant Fresh Year
*Mathfest Participant (will have 4 years)
*Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Rising Star Program (will have 150-175 volunteer hours done)
*Mathcounts Tutor (about 50+ volunteer hours)
*Right now I get about a 1920-2050 on the SAT, 26-30 on ACT according to Practice Tests for SAT, and the PLAN (it’s like the PSAT for SAT except the ACT version) on ACT, but I’m shooting for at least a 2100 on the SAT and 32 on the ACT</p>

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<p>CL8, you are in-state for Oregon. You don't become in-state because you go to undergrad somewhere, unless you take time off, work and do the other things to become an in-state resident. UW DOES favor in-staters and those in the 5 state area that it serves: WWAMI . The acceptance rate for WWAMI students is in the high teens % (or maybe the low 20's) and for out of state in the single digits. Pick an undergrad where you will be happiest, can get good grades and get good premed advising. That is often NOT the place where there is a good med school. Not saying the UW can't be that place but don't choose it for the great medical school. That will also not be the place to get great relationships with profs. I'm thinking that with your stats you ought to be able to pick up some merit aid that could make the cost of attending lower than in-state tuition (undergrad only) at some smaller private schools. See the threads on merit aid.</p>

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<p>great post outwestmom.</p>

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<p>Since when is UW the best med school in the country? I would rank UCSF, Harvard, Mayo, WUSTL, Penn, Yale, Stanford, Michigan, Duke and Chicago ahead of UW.</p>

<p>But regardless, UW is a very, very good med school. Definitely 1st tier.</p>

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<p>UW has been ranked #1 by US News for primary care for a few years now.</p>

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<p>Sorry about that, I was referring to Research.</p>

<p>Well, then yes, in that regard, UW is #1.</p>

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<p>OP is referring to UW's US News and World Report ranking as #1 in primary care, for 13 years running according to the UW med school site.</p>

<p>CCrunner, those top med schools you name are ranked ahead of UW in research (except Mayo).</p>

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<p>What they need to come up with is some specialty rankings that use sensible metrics. The "Research" rankings are actually pretty good measures of... well, how good a school is at research. But so few premeds are actually there to become researchers that the rankings are essentially... well, useless.</p>

<p>My suspicion is that, say, measures for Internal Medicine would align medium well with Research, but I have no idea whether that's true or not.</p>

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<p>The USNWR rankings are far from ideal...research rankings give most credit to how much NIH money the school is drawing in (and I can tell you that affects medical education in absolutely no way at all)</p>

<p>The primary care rankings give most credit to how many students enter a primary care residency...not exactly representative of how well those students do.</p>