Hi! So I am trying to figure out what colleges I should look into for my B.S… I am going to be Pre-Med, so I will be majoring in biology, and I was wondering what Christian University (my parents would like me to go to a more christian school for my first four years) would equip me best for getting great MCAT scores, because I dream of getting into Harvard, Yale, or Johns Hopkins, for Med School. I realize already that, obviously, I will have to have a very high GPA and score well on the MCAT (plus volunteering and research), but I noticed that not many christian universities boast about their students getting accepted into very prestigious medical schools. I would like to go to one though.
Right now here are my options:
Grand Canyon University
Liberty University
Biola University (except they make you minor in biblical studies, something I would not like to do)
Azusa Pacific University
Pepperdine University
and maybe Duke University?
Any more suggestions for universities/comments on the ones I’m thinking about to narrow my options down would be very much appreciated!!
What are your GPA and test scores? That will help people make more relevant recommendations for you. But to start, I’d drop Liberty from your list. It just isn’t well regarded among the “prestigious” med schools you seek. Duke and Pepperdine are good choices, although Duke is extremely selective.
You may also want to consider Gordon and Wheaton (the one in IL). Both are respected by top university grad programs. If you are open to Catholic schools, you should also look at Boston College.
Baylor is a good school for Premed. I know of students who have gotten into Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Mt. Sinai from there. I have a student looking at Liberty’s Biomedical Sciences major and at the Human Biology major at NCSU.
I don’t know anything about the school but maybe look up Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) near/in Boston… they do brag about their acceptance rates into top law and med schools.
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• ENC is known for its success in getting students into top graduate and medical schools
• 100% acceptance rate for its students into Law School (94% for Med School).
Thanks!
I wouldn’t call Duke a Christian school. It might be conservative compared to most other elite privates, but actual church ties (formal anyway) are probably long gone.
There are priests at the Catholic schools though. These are all quite good(and there are more…):
Georgetown
Notre Dame
Boston College
Holy Cross
Villanova
Fordham
Protestant (or WASPy):
Wake Forest (conservative anyway)
SMU
Pepperdine
St. Olaf
Wheaton (IL)
Baylor
ENC (and other Wesleyan and Nazarene schools… Ohio Wesleyan, Illinois Wesleyan, Olivet, etc.)
Liberty
…are a start, along with other schools mentioned here.
Would agree with others. Have had many family members at Duke, and there is nothing Christian about it. Visited Wake Forest (not mentioned by you, but by another poster) this year and they are trying to do everything they can to NOT be considered a Christian university any longer. Baylor has an excellent pre-med track record and admission rate, but it is larger than many of the others on your list. It is hard to find accurate numbers online, but if you ask most schools that have a pre-med advising department will tell you the % of their students that apply and get into med school. Then you have to ask the follow on question: What is the actual # that were accepted last year, and what was the actual # of freshmen that entered planning to go to med school. The rate of freshmen “pre-med” students changing their mind will be high everywhere, and that is not necessarily a bad thing, but you don’t want a school that has a 75% acceptance rate that is actually 3 out of the 4 people who didn’t give up by then because they knew the school wasn’t preparing them.
Post 4 includes Tulsa, but I visited there with my son and the presenters emphasized that the religious connection is sentimental due to the history of the school, and that there’s no true religious affiliation anymore in practice. There’s even a mosque on campus, so it’s definitely not a specifically Christian school.