<p>Would it be "bad" to go do premed at ASU when they have no med school? They do have a hospital though. Would be harder to get good volunteer experience or do the extracurricular things med schools like? Has anyone gone to a college for premed when the college had no med school?</p>
<p>The large majority of undergraduate institutions don’t have a med school. Just be sure to contact your pre-med advising office and see what contacts they have with the local hospital/clinicians you could volunteer/shadow with.</p>
<p>I went to ASU for pre-med, plenty of opportunities. There’s Mayo Clinic up in Scottsdale as well as the U of A branch in Phoenix (affiliated with ASU and easy to get to via lightrail). Try to get into the Barrett Honors College, but the pre-health office advising has plenty of opportunities that you can explore as well.</p>
<p>Well I’m a National Merit Semifinalist, so both would give me a lot of money. I hear Arizona is good in sciences, but I really like Barrett. And ASU just looks like a better place to be. But I am thinking about Alabama and Auburn too.</p>
<p>Go where you want to go. I go to Cornell and, while we do have a med school, it’s a 4 hour drive away. So it’s practically useless. It’s practically impossible to get a hospital internship here too. There’s one hospital, and more premeds here than they have room for. Most of the people I know have been manning phones and making copies there. Might as well get a paid job if that’s what you’re gonna do.</p>
<p>Take the school you’d rather go to, especially if the money makes it super affordable. You can volunteer at hospitals in the summer and stuff, and do research during the year (or whatever else you wanna do).</p>
<p>^ I bet, Cornell has like 600+ applicants a year. I’m sure that means they have thousands of pre-meds! How terrifying…</p>
<p>jrt.
The UA med school now has clinical branch in Phoenix.
Shadowing does not help despite what these people say. In fact HIPAA has stopped it in many institutions (the black and white rules of HIPAA state your doc must tell the patient that you are a college student - the hiding you in a white coat and saying young doc is illegal now)</p>