<p>Wellesley sends lots of students to med school. And it actually awards an AB, not a BA. Or it used to. So I doubt that’s the problem, at least not in the US. </p>
<p>Certainly, going to a place where it would have been easier to get a higher GPA might have helped. And who knows what her board scores were…</p>
<p>munchkin – Many LACs have very high med school acceptance rates. I don’t think the BA/BS thing confuses the issue at all. There are, after all, people who get into med school with degrees in history and english as long as they have the science pre-reqs and the MCAT scores.</p>
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<p>That’s just something I heard. I have no knowledge to put it in perspective. The only thing I can think of about the designation is that Oz and England medical school starts right after high school, and do not require a Bachelor degree first. I think they require “science” students, students have to have some required science subjects, unlike medical schools in N. America, where all majors can apply. Anyway, I guess this is not relevant to op.</p>
<p>Have you looked at Wittenberg? Your stats are very comparable to their students. It’s has a nice feel, good academics, and most kids we know who attend like it a lot. It’s about 4-5 hours from the Detroit area.</p>
<p>Munchkin, I have a friend whose D is in a medical program at Cambridge. She entered it directly after HS as an undergrad. In terms of US coursework, she was required to have AP Bio, AP Chem, and AP Calc. She was required to receive 5s on the science AP exams, and 4 on Calc. Presumably they regarded this as equivalent to the 3 A-levels a UK student would have taken.</p>
<p>Gosh, if no one has said this before, go to the Princeton Revew site and do some exploring. You can get a ton of info that way. Enter the states or regions you are interested in and get lists. Each school will list the average stats of their students, % of admits, etc. The College Board search site, if that’s what you are using, is bizarre. When I tried it with my daughter, the we ended up with about 3 colleges, when I knew there were about 25 other schools that met the criteria.</p>
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I think this was a result of MCAT scores and perhaps GPA too, especially if the GPA had many B’s in sciences with the A’s in English, History, etc. </p>
<p>My liberal arts college only awarded B.A.'s and plenty of people were accepted to good medical schools. Medical schools don’t care if you hava a B.A. or a B.S. as long as you have the required coursework, the grades, the MCAT scores.</p>