<p>hi Guys, I got in JHU, RICE and plan to go to medical school beyond undergraduate ,
which college has better chance if i study and work same hard?</p>
<p>your gpa may be a bit higher at rice, which is helpful.</p>
<p>itsme123,
thanks !
BTW, I only need to pay $22k for RICE , but $30K for JHU.</p>
<p>thanks again.</p>
<p>It depends on what environment you want to be in. Visit both since academics are pretty similar.</p>
<p>Your GPA may be higher at Rice. You know med schoolss weight the GPAs from different schools different since there maybe grade deflation in one school and grade inflation at another.</p>
<p>GPA comparisons across different high schools are supplemented with SAT scores since SAT is the standard test everyone takes so that is the way colleges compare students from different high schools. Same for med schools except it’s the MCATs and not the SATs.</p>
<p>I heard that the med admissions usually take your GPA and multiplies it in some formula with average MCAT score at your institution. Hopkins students score very high on the MCAT, so it typically offsets any marginal decrease in the GPA due to grade deflation.</p>
<p>That means there is no particularly advantage going to a podunk state community college for a 4.0 GPA if the average MCAT score there is a 25 lol. Ultimately, the rigor of your institution will be recognized and Hopkins is very well respected among the medical school admissions circle. Your GPA will obviously take a hit at more rigorous institutions but in no way will that be held against you since med schools take into account which school you went to and how hard the curriculum is …</p>
<p>You have access to top 3 premed advising committee, volunteer with renown professors conducting Noble prize winning research at the medical school, public health school, or the hospital… each ranked #1 in their respective fields. Hopkins is among the first universities to try to offer MCAT prep classes using faculty as teachers so you don’t have to pay for expensive Kaplan type courses that cost hundreds or maybe thousands more.</p>
<p>rice is no podunk.</p>
<p>all above,</p>
<p>your comments are very helpful to me, many many thanks</p>
<p>I’m originially from Houston and currently a senior at Hopkins. Phead128 covered the academic issue of Hopkins vs Rice, but I think the biggest factor between the two is the culture. I would strongly recommend that you visit and stay overnight at both schools. Rice, with its residential college system, has a very different “feeling” than Hopkins, and you should see where you feel more comfortable.</p>
<p>hi tanman,</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<pre><code> probably, I need to visit both and have real feeling; at this point I am toward RICE because it is cheaper, safer, and also closer to my home.
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<p>thanks again</p>
<p>I would definitely strongly recommend visiting. I don’t think the safety issue is as big as it seems. Safety was actually one of my biggest concerns when I visited Hopkins, but after walking around the area at 3am with current students, I didn’t feel it was an issue. The area that Hopkins is located in is very safe. I’m not sure about the safety statistics at Rice, but Rice is also located in the middle of a big city, and having walked through the Texas Medical Center alone at 4am on a Saturday night, I personally didn’t think there was a difference between the two in terms of safety.</p>
<p>hi tanman,</p>
<pre><code>I will visit both Johns hopkins and Rice before I make my final decision .
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<p>your suggestion is very helpful as you know both places.
many thanks.</p>
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<p>I think the 8,000$ from Rice is a huge advantage especially for a higher GPa – the average MCAT scores from both institutions are not very different, and it depends on you, the more u study for it, the better you will do – I would go with rice just because the financial situation.</p>