<p>By some crazy fluke, I got into all of my reaches:
UCLA, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University.</p>
<p>Now I have no idea where I want to go :l</p>
<p>Accepted at:
- [6 Yr PharmD]Northeastern University (Honors & Scholarship)
- [Engineering] U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- [Biology] UCLA
- [Biology or Biochemistry] Berkeley
- [Biology or Biochemistry] Johns Hopkins University</p>
<p>I'm thinking of Law School or Medical School after.
I don't really know what I want to do with my life :l</p>
<p>Help me choose, please?
I like</p>
<ul>
<li>Liberal Atmosphere (Berkeley?)</li>
<li>Small Class Size (so JHU?..)</li>
<li>Location doesn't matter</li>
<li>If the UG is not cut-throat that'd be nice</li>
</ul>
<p>Since you’re not sure what you want to do, you need to go somewhere where you’ll get all the prereqs for both law and med. I don’t know much about the 6 year pharm program at NE, but its probably more focussed on science, and won’t get you your law pre-reqs. JHU is also best for sciences, although you could probably still get your prereqs for law there too…</p>
<p>I suggest…</p>
<p>Berkeley or UCLA (depending on your preference)</p>
<p>Anyways, personally I’d go to UCLA. JH is too focused on sciences and you don’t sound like you’re a hundred percent sure you want to go into that. And Berkeley’s very cut-throat, atleast that’s what I heard. For a liberal atmosphere( )though, that would fit Berkeley or Michigan.</p>
<p>JHU has one of the highest law schools and medical schools acceptance rates in the country. In 2005,** 92** percent of JHU seniors/graduates who applied to law school were admitted to at least one of their choices. 83 percent of Johns Hopkins students go on to graduate school (about half immediately after graduation), the highest percentage of any school in the nation. 93 percent of premeds get into medical school…</p>
<p>Major in international relations. Hopkins is renown for international relations (Hopkins SAIS is a renown IR school) and it is one of the fastest growing most popular majors here on campus. Many people considering pre-law are international relations majors.</p>
<p>Pre-Med at Hopkins is top notch, as is the pre-law advising track.
Smaller Class Sizes than either UCB or UCLA by FAR. The campus is relatively left-leaning (liberal) with those that are very into politics and also those that aren’t. Baltimore is also just a quick $7 train ride away from DC so you get the best of two cities (or 3 if you feel like venturing into Philly, only 1+ hour away). </p>
<p>All Pre-Meds ANYWHERE are competitive, including at Hopkins. However, Hopkins is not necessarily cut-throat. There is a lot of group activity and group work together, even in Pre-Med classes. For example, the group study and more social levels of the library are always the most full and have people brimming with intelligence and discussions on labs, problem sets, etc.</p>
<p>Also, 80%+ of the Hopkins undergrad pop. does some form of research in their undergrad years. Touted as the highest rate amongst their peers. Where else can you land plenty of research internships and medical school jobs from the Johns Hopkins Hospital, which is easily accessible via free-JHU shuttle?</p>
<p>Hopkins also has a new President that is looking to focus a lot more on the undergrad experience, so if you come in to Hopkins now, you are bound to see much much great er things and a livelier campus overall than most people portray it to be.</p>
<p>You’re right about no specific courses being required for law school.</p>
<p>Go to Northeastern if you want to study pharmacy, and Michigan if you want to study engineering. </p>
<p>UCLA, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins have approximately equivalent undergraduate reputations, so feel free to choose based on geography, or feel, or cost.</p>
<p>I have always felt embarrassed for those people who don’t know if they want to be lawyers or doctors. I think that speaks tons about their character.</p>
<p>I don’t think Hopkins will give you a greater chance in getting into med school, if anything it could hurt since everybody is premed. </p>
<p>Also, that 92% or whatever figure isn’t very telling. At JHU, you need the recommendation of some premed committee before applying to medical schools. I’m 100% positive that premed acceptance rate is referring to the acceptance rate of people who have been recommended by this committee, which is already pre-screened.</p>
<p>Um, Hopkins premed here. I asked the Director of Pre professional advising, Dr. Verrier about this. He basically told me that the committee looks out for the best interests of it’s applicants. Most med schools boast an acceptance rate of 2 or 3%. The committee is headed various faculty members from across all academic dvisions of Hopkins including doctors, researchers, and the former dean of admissions of Hopkins med school. It is among the top 3 premed advising committees in America.</p>
<p>They exist for a reason. They are extremely useful because they will advise you on ways to improve your application and to make sure you are 100% ready before you blow $3000 on application fees, stress over writing personal statements and secondary applications, travel all over the country for interviews only to get one or two acceptance letters or worse… none at all.</p>
<p>If you think prescreening committee is tough, I doubt you will be ready for medicine in general. Competition to get into med school is so vicious dude, if you don’t get an okay from the committee…you won’t get into med school anyways. It’s like complaining that organic chemistry is a weeder course. Come on lol</p>
<p>They’ll tell you to go improve MCAT scores, do post bacc work to improve your GPA, Peace Corps, Teach For America, pursue a masters, do graduate work, find a Clinical job… anything that will make sure their alumni are successful so that they can give $$$ back when the school needs them in the future (like right now during an economic crisis)</p>
<p>@ MyOpinion:
“I have always felt embarrassed for those people who don’t know if they want to be lawyers or doctors. I think that speaks tons about their character.”</p>
<p>Wow, does it speak a ton about my character?
I’m betting you just think I want to be a lawyer or a doctor for the money, but the world isn’t that bleak yet.
I want to be a lawyer because I want to help people in Korea (my home country) who are suffering from ‘unfair’ treatment, if you know what I mean. There are people who are being unfairly treated because they can’t afford to pay lawyers $100 per hour…</p>
<p>Then I wanted to go to Med school because I wanted help bring a change in the world… I am kind of a romanticist, I accept that; I want to do something ‘for the mankind…’</p>
<p>but you had no right to judge me like that ;-)</p>
<p>And yeah JHU costs 50K per year (Argh) while Berkeley is 30K per year…
is 20K per year worth it for the small class size? I’ll have to think about that…
Thanks for all of your input!</p>
)though, that would fit Berkeley or Michigan.</p>