Hopkins or MIT?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I would like to hear pro's and con's for each school regarding its pre-med program.</p>

<p>I was accepted into both schools - undecided at this time, looking for some advice.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Please read the threads about picking an UG college in the Resources sticky thread.</p>

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<p>Congratulations! Both will prepare you extremely well for medical school. If I am not mistaken both these schools have covered grades in first semester (JHU definitely does, MIT used have). Leverage the first semester to explore and decide on major for yourself. You will have great undergrad research and volunteering opportunities and great pre-health advising at both places. Leveraging them is up to you. The average stats of matriculating MIT pre-meds tend to be a bit higher than that of kids from JHU.</p>

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<p>I believe this is right. And to agree (I think) with kal, remember that higher is bad.</p>

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<p>If I am pursuing Biology, will there be engineering requirements at MIT? or Hopkins?</p>

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<p>Go to their websites and look at their major requirements.</p>

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<p>There are no engineering requirements at MIT. I have posted the GIR requirements on your JHU thread.</p>

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<p>see my most recent post in: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1484178-if-you-high-school-please-read-before-posting.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1484178-if-you-high-school-please-read-before-posting.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thank you i<em>wanna</em>be_Brown. You are right, I was rather vague and not direct with my question(s). I will try to more specific going forward. Thanks!</p>

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<p>OP, MIT pre-health website has most detailed stats for past successful applicants, their avg. GPA and MCAT to each med school, and stats for kids who didn’t make it. I wish every school post these type stats. If you do a comparison of MIT kids gpa and MCAT against the other accepted kids for a particular med school (widely available), you will reach similar conclusion as Kal and Blue Devil indicated.</p>

<p>I venture to guess, MIT doesn’t have its affiliated med school, which put their pre-meds at slight disadvantage.</p>

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<p>yeah, it’s probably the same disadvantage that princeton has…</p>