<p>Is Uchicago strong at pre-med?</p>
<p>They have a pre-med program, but it is a liberal arts school...not a training program.</p>
<p>NO! u of c is not the place to be if you want to go to med school. Unless you are brilliant and will be able to get amazing grades. If you plan on going to med school, go to a school will you will thrive. U of C only has a 65% acceptance rate to med school, yes it's 25% up from the national average bu tstill..</p>
<p>Not really, though I do know a third year biology major who wants to go into medical research. Her plans are in the spirit of the U. of C.</p>
<p>From the U of C Health Professional's Handbook: Students with the Dean's list 3.25 GPA have a 67.5% acceptance rate for med school, those who have a 3.3 GPA have a 75% acceptance rate. </p>
<p>If one can earn a 3.4 to 3.5 GPA the acceptance rate is among the very best in the nation.</p>
<p>that doesnt sound very unbiased. why dont you have statistics for your last claim? Rice has a 92% large ***** ratio.</p>
<p>my junk is big</p>
<p>It is about 88%, if I recall, but all of those statistics are a little misleading. Those are of the students who make it through the pre-med grind, not those who begin with premed as a goal. The last I heard, the best school for that is (perhaps was, after Katrina) Xavior University in LA. If the goal is simply med school there are many schools, many of them State Universities, that do a fine job of preparation and whose acceptance rates are good.</p>
<p>And speaking of biased, I believe that Rice number includes those who are accepted into the combined Rice/Baylor program as freshman. Nothing against Rice, or any school for that matter, I find Rice to be one of the better college environments in the country, it is one of my personal favorites.</p>
<p>It is very hard to compare colleges based on the admit success to med school. Why? because there are too many confounding variables. Consider that some colleges actually pre-screen premeds and only support the applications of (meaning provide recs etc.) those they think can succeed. So of course they have a high percentage. </p>
<p>I think that if you are so focused on such statistics, you are not good Chicago material anyway. Chicago wants, and attracts, a kind of student that has an intellectual curiousity above and beyond mere grade grubbing and med school admissions, IMHO. It is also not particularly pre-professional.</p>
<p>So, if you want to be in the area, maybe you should look at Northwestern?</p>
<p>why shouldnt it include that program, idad? the program itself has less than a 10% acceptance rate already, and they still must take pre-med requirements. it is only a point in time really, they simply already went through the process rather than didnt go through the process. the only difference is that they dont have to take the mcat to go to baylor. (i assume they do if they are applying to other schools, which is allowed.) </p>
<p>as long as they arent double counted, it seems perfectly legitimate.</p>