<p>i went there last year for a state-wide journalism convention. I thought it was nice the campus but as soon as i got out of the campus it really looked southern. It contrasted a lot with northern VA so i didn't like the surrounding. The campus was good i guess and the building aren't really much of architecture but convinient.
About the caliber, i know someone who turned down Duke for the pre-med program. He says it was a very good decision.</p>
<p>i know someone who turned down harvard, yale, and duke for the premed program. it sounds a little unbeliveable, i know, but she hasn't expressed a single regret</p>
<p>Like, how bad is the VCU area. Idunno if since I'm from Brooklyn, New York that means I will adjust to the area quickly. (If ur from brooklyn u kno there isnt anythign u haven't seen).Will someone please explain to me how "bad" this area is? I'm sure it isnt as harsh as everyone makes it out to be. Or maybe it can be that not everyone is used to those kind of areas.......</p>
<p>blakizbeautiful1- Spent most of my like in Brooklyn too! I am from Long Island now. I liked VCU. As we were touring the area around VCU, my husband and I both thought there were areas around VCU that reminded us of Brooklyn. That's a good thing, because I love Brooklyn. There were some wide streets around the area, old and stately houses- could be a combo of Eastern Pkwy and older houses in Flatbush. I think there are alot of people who are not used to a more urban environment so they have negative vibes from that experience. But for those who like an urban campus and takes advantage of going to school in a city, VCU is worth considering. My d wanted to stay a bit closed to NY, so she did not apply to VCU but I certainly would not feel uncomfortable if she decided to go to VCU. My d did apply to Temple. That too is a very urban campus in Philly. If you like the urban campus feel, that is also a school to look at.</p>
<p>well, put it this way, i've been to richmond with someone who was from brooklyn or queens or something. i'm not sure. but they know what a city is and they started to laugh. richmond is not a real city. i mean it is urban and all and its the 5th most dangerous city in the country, but its not a city in a new york sense or anything. they don't even have really big buildings. there are a lot of the sort of endearing qualities of like carytown (old old buildings and stuff) and then there are the "scarier" parts. honestly i think most reservations about richmond come from the fact that it is the most "city" place in virginia. also, the school is expanding really quickly so the campus is spreading out and it is helping to "clean up" richmond a little bit. although it does make things confusing. like if you use mapquest to tell you how to get to I-195 it tells you to turn down this street that still has the street sign for it but the school has built this student commons place with benches and grass and flowers and stuff over it...kind of makes you wonder "ummm am i supposed to drive down that....?" sorry i have a lot of lovely little stories about richmond.</p>
<p>If you're from "The City", (and to NY'rs, there is no other city) there's nothing like NY. There was a familiar "neighborhood feel" to VCU with certain areas of Brooklyn. That is part of the reason why a lot of NYC/LI kids are unhappy with the SUNY system, as most of the state colleges are in pretty rural and isolated areas. Trust me, Richmond is an urban oasis when compared to SUNY Binghamton and Geneseo. An interesting comment about the campus "spreading out"-- we "pre-toured the VCU campus the evening we got to Richmond. Since it does not a true central campus, VCU felt like a hodgepodge of buildings. The next day, we took the official campus tour. It was a good thing, as the tour did give us a better sense of the campus. It's hard to explain but I did find the tour, extremely helpful. We all had a much more positive feeling about the school after we took the official tour.</p>
<p>lol it's funny that a lot of people call new york the city. i live in brooiklyn, new york and i consider manhattan the city and brooklyn "the hood" as we say. lol but thats just me i was wondering wat exactly would the vcu area be considered</p>
<p>by spreading out i meant expanding, maybe in a way while they are expanding the campus it is becoming more central. does that make any sense? its pretty spread out, there is no actual campus but they are taking over ares that are in between and building all this stuff. richmond is permanently under construction (not just from the school) its a pretty cool place with pretty cool people. i spend a lot of time up there and i know a lot of people wouldn't want to go anywhere else.</p>
<p>as far as hood or whatever, if you have any kind of street smarts, you should be fine at VCU.</p>
<p>Obviously Richmond is not like New York City... how many other cities in the world are? None.</p>
<p>Hello....</p>
<p>What are the percentage of people that follow through with this automatic addmissions into the graduate school?</p>
<p>reading the website, you must remain at a 3.6 GPA throughout your four years?
Is this something difficult to do at VCU???</p>
<p>thanks again!</p>
<p>In general, any medical school is a good medical school. There are only 125 of them and getting through anyone is going to give you an MD and into a residency somewhere. And unless you are hoping to go into academic medicine, where you complete your medical schooling isn't important (except in very, very rare cases). </p>
<p>I'd imagine that b/c VCU is not an accelerated program, it's not as competitive. Combine that with a less recognizable name than the other 8 year programs, and it means there is less competition as well. While I personally have many, many qualms about accelerated programs, the 8 year programs are harder to judge as a whole, and so I'd have to know more about the exact requirements at each school before making a verdict on whether they are worthwhile.</p>
<p>Do you think Fordham University is a good grade inflater?
I heard its difficult to have your med reqs and do their core curriciculum.
What are some good grade inflater schools, other than Harvard?</p>
<p>Don't count on getting in to the automatic acceptance program for med school at VCU. It's insanely competitive. A 3.6 is doable as a pre-med student as long as you aren't completely terrible at chemistry. One of my friends is a sophomore and he received the provost scholarship upon entrance, but he had to drop out of pre-med and switch to pharmacy because he couldn't take it. That said, he puts way more energy into music than school.</p>
<p>As for the city, I like it a lot. I used to spend every weekend downtown in my earlier years of high school, so it really isn't dangerous if you're not an idiot and you know what you're doing. Last summer I worked downtown in the VCU Medical Center and then rowed at night by a boathouse at the end of Main St. so I spent every day of every week down there and it was great. The city is always under construction, but hopefully something good will come out of it. Don't count on a lot of consistent sidewalk to walk on, and definitely get a bike and use it because the traffic sort of sucks most of the time. I live in a suburb of Richmond and almost everyone at my school is terrified of the city, so it's definitely a universal reputation, but it's a wrongful one. If you stay in the right parts it's great. There are a lot of cool restaurants and the music scene is decent if you're into any kind of punk really.</p>
<p>"Is this something difficult to do at VCU???"</p>
<p>If you managed to get guaranteed acceptance to the med school it shouldn't be.</p>
<p>let talk more about VCU and richmond. I will be freshmen in august going to VCU. I'm from out of state.</p>
<p>well i got into this VCU bs/md crap and i turned that down for UVA honors. In my opinion, uva or anyother big name schools are far better thn vcu. And even though vcu bs/md encourages people to apply out, not a single person has made into harvard (as oposed to over 5 ppl at uva per year)
-also vcu doesn't even have the college like experience- like having a campus, etc..</p>
<p>I have some friends who attend VCU, and they like it. One did have a shootout between the police and some criminals outside of her freshman orientation, so be warned, it isn't the safest of places.</p>
<p>I second Tsdad's opinion. Driving around the VCU area left me with a very poor impression of Richmond. You could hardly distinguish the "campus" from nearby storefronts (a few of them empty). You might want to think about Old Dominion University instead. Not leaps and bounds better than VCU, but a more pleasant urban/small city environment.</p>
<p>VCU is not in the greatest part of town. Monroe Park is a place to avoid after dark</p>