<p>Which is better, Middlebury or Bowdoin, if I'm interested in science, and want to enter a prestigious medical school after undergraduate?</p>
<p>Any statistics, facts?</p>
<p>Middlebury just recently spent millions of dollars on building new science labs, which I heard were some of the best in the country… competiting against other large research universities like CM and Johns.</p>
<p>Anyone else? I would really appreciate it.</p>
<p>my daughter goes to Midd and is a biochemistry major and is completing her premed requirements. She has done research in chemistry since freshman year and the school has an active pre-med group. She helped with a global health symposium, lots of community service is available for volunteering, and more. She is hopefully going to work with a Midd grad (who went on Harvard Medical school) at the hospital he helped start in Uganda for her January term. Midd has a program where pre-med students can shadow doctors at the local hospital. All things med schools like.</p>
<p>Which top liberal arts college do you guys think is the strongest in medicine/science and has a large number of students go to top medical schools, besides Middlebury?</p>
<p>I second this question</p>
<p>Which top liberal arts college do you guys think is the strongest in medicine/science and has a large number of students go to top medical schools, besides Middlebury?</p>
<p>Bowdoin.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got into both and prefer Midd, but I’ll admit, Bowdoin’s pre-med program was pretty tempting.</p>
<p>I don’t know about Middlebury, but Amherst seems to be very excellent in medical school placement.</p>
<p>Bowdoin is known for its premed program and has been for years. Follow [this</a> link](<a href=“Health Professions Advising | Bowdoin College”>Health Professions Advising | Bowdoin College) and you can find the data on the med school admit rate for Bowdoin (86% of applicants) and a list of the med schools to which they were accepted.</p>
<p>From what I understand about med school applications, an admit rate has less to do with the quality of the applicant and more to do with the decision of the faculty to allow the student to apply. I’m by no means an expert on this, but I believe that “premed” programs usually decide whether they’ll let a student apply (meaning they’ll withhold rec’s), in an effort to increase admit rates. I’m totally open to the fact that I could be wrong about this, but that’s what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s too far off, urbanslaughter. Here’s a link to Middlebury’s premed handbook. You’ll notice that faculty play a huge role in the med school preapplication and application processes.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/92871C9C-113A-48E8-87A6-B406C355631E/0/PREMEDHANDBOOK0809.pdf[/url]”>http://www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/92871C9C-113A-48E8-87A6-B406C355631E/0/PREMEDHANDBOOK0809.pdf</a></p>
<p>That’s good information, but there are no numbers. Such as how many got into Harvard Medical, or Columbia or Penn.</p>
<p>I’m sure you can get the info you’re looking for by emailing the premed contact listed in the handbook.</p>
<p>Arcadia and Urbanslaughter - I would be really shocked if the Midd faculty (or the faculty at any other LAC) does things like withhold recommendations for aspiring med students. What I think actually happens is that the prerequisite science classes for med school (things like organic chemistry courses and the like) at most LACs are so demanding that the unqualified candidate is weeded out way before the applying to medical school stage of the process is reached.</p>