Johns Hopkins vs Yale vs Columbia

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I'm a high school senior that's planning on majoring in neuroscience and moving on to medical school.</p>

<p>I really need your suggestions on some perspectives:</p>

<p>Yale is a great school, but from what I've heard, their sciences courses aren't so strong compared;
JHU is super competitive, and everyone's a premed, but the students seem to be best prepared (if you're not cut out, that is);
Columbia is providing me with the best aid...</p>

<p>HELP!! Any advice would be welcome!!</p>

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<p>"JHU is super competitive… but the students seem to be best prepared (if you’re not cut out; that is)</p>

<p>^ I don’t think that a super competitive aspect will work well for you because med school is all about GPA + MCAT. Your MCAT will be great because you will be super prepared… but your GPA will suffer being in arguable the toughest pre-med program in the country ^.</p>

<p>Personally, I would go with the one that gave me the most aid (Columbia), but Yale is an excellent choice as well if money is not too important.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/202936-good-pre-med-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/202936-good-pre-med-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Johns Hopkins will give you the greatest chance of getting into Johns Hopkins Medical School.</p>

<p>Check this site if you don’t believe me:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/students/academics/catalog/mcat07_08/MCAT11b.pdf[/url]”>http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/students/academics/catalog/mcat07_08/MCAT11b.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>62 MD candidates are Hopkins students.
The next highest is Yale with 43
Harvard with 40
Stanford with 31</p>

<p>Incest at Hopkins is a good thing ;)</p>

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<p>Yup. Now all you have to do is be one of the top 15 premeds at Hopkins, and you stand a pretty good chance.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Thanks. Johns Hopkins it is then!</p>

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<p>Er, I was being sarcastic. Seriously, projecting yourself into the top-15 premeds at Johns Hopkins is… well, that’s insane.</p>

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<p>Seriously, I’d take Columbia or Yale. Yale’s science courses are fine. Premed sciences are pretty basic, so frankly any major university is fine. And if Columbia’s giving you the best aid, that sounds like a pretty good situation to me.</p>

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<p>Pre-meds, insane? Color me surprised.</p>

<p>I agree that the OP is nuts for turning down Columbia if it’s a good fit and provides the most scholarship money. The OP seems to think that JHU will be the magic bullet for medical school admissions, and that’s absolutely not true.</p>

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You’re playing a dangerous game, BDM!</p>

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<p>I think we may need to be like many other online communities that can change the font color they want to be sarcastic… :)</p>

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<p>Seriously people, it’s not funny.</p>

<p>But don’t worry, I was planning on going to Columbia anyway, I just didn’t want to hurt ur feelings.^^</p>

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<p>Whew .</p>