<p>How cut-throat are the pre-med programs at these three universities? Please rank them in the order of most difficult to least difficult. Here is the thing: I’m the kind of guy that memorizes stuff after looking at it for an hour if it takes someone fifteen minutes. It’s depressing… but I manage to get straight A’s in high school and do well in my academics, but I don’t think I can handle it if people start to deliberately try to make me do worse. Please help. Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>In order of most cut-throatness if thats a word, JHU, followed by Cornell, followed by Brown (least cut-throat).</p>
<p>i have heard really nasty comments about JHU pre-med program. surprisingly, it is the students, not the school itself, that make learning so difficult. LOTS of negative competitions.</p>
<p>also, the school will only "allow" the best students to apply to med school, and that is why it has like a 95 percent rate of getting its kids into med school. Therefore, JHU will deny the kids that are not considered the very best to apply to med school.</p>
<p>are u serious? that's mean ">.<</p>
<p>it's true!!!! The JHU board will confirm that, but will downplay it, but it's true and occurs. However, at like other places like Cornell, the competition is fierce, so you the best of the best are the ones that do well and apply. However, no one at Cornell is denied the chance to apply to med schools, and Cornell still boasts a 77 percent change of getting its kids into at least 1 med school, and 89 percent if you have above a 3.4 GPA.</p>
<p>so I'm just curious... what happens to the people who spend 4 years of their life studying to become a doctor and can't even take a swing at admissions? Do they just waste 4 years of their life? Do they have to start all over? That is extremely depressing. If that's true then I'm not going to go to JHU if I get accepted.</p>
<p>The sad part is that I am not even joking. Go ask this question on the JHU board, they won't deny it, but they will "downplay it." I was acccepted by JHU, but I would rather take my chances w. med school with my own merit than have a school determine if I can even apply. Any school that boasts above a 90 percent acceptance rate to med school is pulling some stuff behind the scenes, i.e. not allowing everyone to apply. In order to apply to med school, you need to get recs from professors, and need to get a document signed by the administration. JHU, i have heard will deny a person the ability to apply to med school if he/she is not apart of the top at JHU.</p>
<p>key phrase is </p>
<p>"I have heard"</p>
<p>Its true. My roommate went to Hopkins and he says it happens.</p>
<p>So what do they do after JHU tells them they can't apply?</p>
<p>see ppl, I AM NOT LYING PPL!!!!!</p>
<p><em>rolls eyes</em></p>
<p><em>rolls royce</em></p>
<p>Apparently, from my roommate who had a pre-med roommate, they "encourage" them to pursue other options such as research or going to work somewhere before applying later.</p>
<p>Ok... so when they do follow this "encouragement"... do they end up having a chance to apply again later for medical schools or do they pretty much have to do something else? If not medical school, then can someone apply for another academic interest in some science-related field of research?</p>
<p>bumpity bump to my last question.</p>