<p>Financially since you want to go to med school - pick the lower cost school, excellent marks and take full advantage of every opportunity to intern, work, etc. </p>
<p>I am sorry but to go into debt for undergrad knowing you want med school is not the way to go.</p>
<p>I initiated my FA, lets see how much they give me…If I have to pay 30,000 inculding loans, it will be great because, Texas A&M costs 20,000 a year with no aid, my efc was higher than this…(and I will need car so it will be another 25,000 to the total, at Emory I don’t need a car since I will be living on campus)…Total for A&M after 4 years = around 105,000…</p>
<p>I visited the campus, and I liked Emory but disliked Atlanta(didn’t seem very safe)…But comparing the two, I am indifferent to Emory and A&M’s campus, I really wanted to talk to some students at Emory, but commencement had taken place a week before I got there…I am just worried about doing well at Emory(I don’t think I can maintain a 3.4 +)…</p>
<p>"I don’t think I can maintain a 3.4 +)… " - I got an impression from CC posts that 3.4 might not cut it for Med. School’s adcom. I also got an impression that name of UG is not as important as UG GPA and MCAT score. You can make your own conclusion. No matter what you decide and where you go, work hard and good luck!</p>
<p>Does Emory have a low pre-med acceptance rate, because the kids apply to too many top medical schools, when they should have applied to more lower-level medical schools…I just want to go to Texas A&M and Texas Tech level schools, not shooting for Baylor, JHU, Harvard, Duke, or Columbia Level Medical Schools.</p>
<p>I go to Emory and this thread is a bit embarassing</p>
<p>It doesn’t sound like it.</p>
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<p>This tells me that for some reason, some huge percentage of Emory premeds has either really low GPAs or sub-30 MCAT scores. The problem isn’t that their aiming too high–the problem is for some reason, a lot of very bright kids (Emory’s a very selective school) are churned out with very low statistics.</p>
<p>As a student currently at emory, I’ll tell you. Emory pre-med is not easy. Only about 10- 15 % of a class will make an A in a class. A lot of students will become discouraged by this but will not give up their pre-med dreams and apply to med school anyways. Its definitely a hard path… but if you get through it… you will be fine with med school admission. Like a poster said above, a 3.5 gpa and a 30 mcat has an 89% acceptance rate into med school. A lot of kids with low gpas lose their ambition to get into med school and don’t put as much effort in the MCAT as they should, possibly due to poor advising and a competitive student body . Also the upper-level sciences are no where near as hard as the pre-med pre requisites. This can help your bcpm gpa. Work hard and be disciplined. You will do well and will be able to get in anywhere. Hope this helps and if you have any questions, feel free to message me.</p>
<p>Hi wafflesandsyrup,</p>
<p>about what % of emory freshman students in pre med track ?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>There really isn’t a number published at emory of how many people come into college as pre-med. Possibly the best indicator there would be is the # if students enrolled in first semester gen chem since all pre-meds are encouraged to take that there freshman year. After looking at course history, there were about 420 people enrolled in gen chem from emory and 120 at oxford. Although this isn’t the perfect indicator, it should give you an idea. A decent number of students begin as pre-med and end up in different health fields such as dental or public health due to changes of interests.</p>
<p>wafflesandsyrup,</p>
<p>good estimation, thank.</p>
<p>not sure if you saw these charts - </p>
<p><a href=“http://career.emory.edu/parents/pdf/Applicants_Emory_2008_Matrix.pdf[/url]”>http://career.emory.edu/parents/pdf/Applicants_Emory_2008_Matrix.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://career.emory.edu/parents/pdf/Med_Stats_2009.pdf[/url]”>http://career.emory.edu/parents/pdf/Med_Stats_2009.pdf</a></p>
<p>That first chart is a little discouraging, there is always 1 kid with a 32+ mcat or a 3.8 gpa+ who doesn’t get into medical school from Emory…I would hate to be that kid…</p>
<p>That chart, like Emory’s statistics generally, befuddles me. How on earth does a school of Emory’s caliber spit out half their applicants with less than a 30? If they had like 700 applicants, sure, I could see that there’s just a lot more kids “taking a shot.” But they don’t; they have a relatively small number of premeds.</p>
<p>Clutch
You have the whole purpose WRONG. I am sorry. You do not go to college to get into medical school. You go to college to get a good liberal arts education. Then you go to medical school. Until you get that into your head you will do terrible in college, will only take underwater basket-weaving to inflate your GPA and will not get into med school as the adcom will see right through you.</p>
<p>We do not want people like you in med school (unless you are a Doogie Houser). We want well rounded, well educated people. As another adcom member wrote on this board, you would have a better chance by joining the army and becoming a medic and then applying.</p>