<p>How can anyone help if you won't share your stats? No one knows who you are!!!</p>
<p>What do you need stats for!!! I already said i ain't getting into HYPMS? For a rough idea, SATs in low 700s, top 4%, 4.1 something w gpa, i can put together a whole what are my chances thread later. I already said top 20ish schools, do you need stats as proof that i could get admitted?</p>
<p>n.b. no one knows who i am? but of course, am I not the the great revolutionary ;).</p>
<p>Many of the top schools that tend to be relatively laid back (Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Colgate, Bowdoin, Bucknell) tend to be in non-urban locations.</p>
<p>Have you spent much time at Amherst, arcadia? I'd say we're wicked laid back. I have a prof who used to teach at a top 5 school with a rep for being very laid back, and he always asks us, "why are you all so chill [about grades and such] when they weren't at all?!?!?!"</p>
<p>It feels larger than Middlebury, too, as it isn't isolated in Vermont, it's in a lively college town.</p>
<p>Emory may be in Georgia, but it's in Atlanta. Rural GA and the ATL are quite different. Atlanta is like any other metropolitan city.</p>
<p>A lot of people here have deluded (or 25 year old) views on where they can get in so stats help!</p>
<p>Wesleyan - 2800 u/g; 5/1 student faculty ratio in the sciences; excellent low profile feeder school; middle of one of the most densely populated states in the union (two hours from NYC, three from Boston, one from Providence.) It's the poster child of laid back.</p>
<p>I think Wash U would be great. However, many students from my high school go there, and find all their classes incredibly easy except intro bio and chem, which essentially destroy them. It's just anecdotal evidence, but I've heard that Wash U premed is excellent, but many people get weeded out.</p>
<p>Actually, if someone with more experience could speak to the level of grade inflation at Wash U, that would be very helpful to me.</p>
<p>I think Brown and Penn look very good for you. Have you thought about Colgate? They're very rural, but have great grad and pre med acceptance rates and are very laid back.</p>
<p>Thanks kid, what can you tell me about Penn. Are they known for inflation? Interesting note on Wash U, they got easy classes except where it counts, lol.</p>
<p>I don't think you're going to find an easy pre-med curriculum. You should probably add Tufts to your list, too; I'm not saying they're easy, but, it does sound as if you'd find a lot of like minded individuals there.</p>
<p>I know kids who are applying to low profile feeder schools, but don't want to mention the names and increase competition. They located them by asking doctors and other people. I read a post by a doctor (I believe on CollegeConfidential) who said the same thing. He said that there are two main routes to med school. The first is to go to your state school and get incredible grades. You do this if your parents are not well off. The second is easier. Go to a small local private college that is known as a good feeder school. It costs more in general, but is an easier and more pleasant way to go. You could ask local doctors and medical students. The websites of your local private colleges should also offer information. For example, if they mention a premed advisor, have a webpage on premed, or mention med school placement statistics, they may well be a good feeder school. Of course, if you are an incredibly good student, and can pay for it, you can go to a high profile feeder school such as the Ivies, top LACs, and New Ivies. You will just have to compete harder for the grades.</p>
<p>I agree -- add Tufts. If you like Northwestern and Brown, Tufts seems like a great fit. The natural sciences are strong here, and there's also a fast-track program to the med school here that you can get accepted to as an undergraduate if your grades here are good, so it can end up being a safety/back-up later on, which might be nice. Additionally, undergraduates are always getting tons of money to engage in their own research with or without a professor, so you can stand out in that way. Also this is a laid-back campus and we're just outside Boston so we get the best of both suburban & urban worlds.</p>
<p>Lolabelle, hmmm...i'll look into tufts, sounds good. Does it have a healthy dose of grade inflation?</p>
<p>I think Tufts is the kind of school where you get the grade you deserve. I also believe that grad/med schools know that there is no inflation here, so any GPA 3.5 and above from Tufts is absolutely outstanding.</p>