<p>what are some colleges that are known for their premeds and also offer full merit scholarships?</p>
<p>Washington Univ. in St. Louis and Vanderbilt Univ. are home to large medical colleges and have good pre-med programs, and there are some full merit scholarships awarded. The University of Chicago has a very few full merit awards. These types of awards are very difficult to get at "top 20" universities.</p>
<p>Check out Pitt. Also has a large, well-known medical college as well as a huge hospital system throughout the city. It's tough to get a full scholarship, but a little easier than WUStL, Vandy, and Chicago.</p>
<p>There's a school in the South called Rhodes where the kid of a parent who posts here is pre med. She went over Yale for the money and research promises. I think it's a good deal for a pre med. You don't need a name school. Ask on the parents board for the best ideas you'll get on CC.</p>
<p>Rhodes is in Memphis. The poster whose daughter attends is Curmudgeon, who hasn't been posting a lot lately, I think. Perhaps the OP could send a PM to Curmudgeon and ask for advice. Curmudgeon and his daughter did an exhaustive search for merit-awarding pre-med programs a few years ago.</p>
<p>you might also wanna consider Emory</p>
<p>Consider the University of Florida, they are generous</p>
<p>Here is a website to the Medical School:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.med.ufl.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.med.ufl.edu/</a></p>
<p>any other schools?</p>
<p>If your lucky enough you could get the full-ride to Duke or WashU, but you'd probably do just as well with generous merit aid at a less selective college that's also got a strong science program and some research opportunities. Maybe Occidental in L.A. or Denison in Ohio. You should go to the Parents Forum and look at the thread about third or fourth down. It's a discussion of good merit aid schools, and since it was prompted by Curmudgeon's d's college search, it must touch on the pre-med angle. You could also do a search for two other very knowledgable and helpful posters, Carolyn, and Soozievt. They could point you in the right direction. </p>
<p>The full-ride type scholarship awards at highly selective colleges tend to go to very top students the college is eager to attract, not only for their stellar stats but personal qualities that the adcoms are looking for that year. Very competitive. It's a reach within a reach. Regarding med school, most of the advice I've read is that where you go to UG, even what you major in as long as you take certain prerequisites, is unimportant in regard to med school acceptance --- it's all about GPA and MCATs. </p>
<p>Some people take a pretty circuitous route to med school. A friend's daughter graduated from UC-Berkeley with a degree in psychology and Spanish; she had given up on pre-med in UG because she couldn't get through organic chemistry (at the time.) Then she went to work in a research lab and realized that she was never going to get credit for her contributions without an M.D. by her name, so she went back to school, was able (new motivation?) to ace OChem and got into UPittsburgh med school on a full ride. Smart young lady.</p>
<p>Case Western gives a lot of money, and it's a respected technical school and research university. Not sure if you like Cleveland though.</p>
<p>Getting into med school is all about your GPA and MCAT. Med school adcoms will use those two numbers to screen their applicants with little consideration of the institution itself.</p>
<p>I'd say your best chances are with your state schools. State schools are often very generous with aid to their residents and possibly easier to maintain a high GPA at (There are exceptions, of course. To name a few: Cal, U of M, UVA). But, unless you're a student that not even Harvard would afford to lose, there's very little chance private elites like Duke and Chicago will offer you a "full-ride" to their school. After all, universities are like companies, not charities; they want you either for your money, given your admission stats don't bring down the overall stats of the school, or for the potential contribution you might make to the institution's research and reputation in the form of future success.</p>
<p>For the most part of the admitted students, it's the former.</p>
<p>To find a good private school for premed that'll offer you a full-ride, trust me, you've got to be one hell of an unrealistically intelligent and promising scholar.</p>
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<p>Well, actually, I would say that those state schools you mentioned are NOT the exception. Public schools in general tend to be harder with grading than are private schools.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.gradeinflation.com/</a></p>
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Public schools in general tend to be harder with grading than are private schools.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.gradeinflation.com/</a>
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<p>Is there any evidence that publics are harsher when taking into account the caliber of students in the courses?</p>