<p>I love both of these universities but I am torn to which one I should as a good stepping stone for me to go to medical school. Which one do you people think I should go to and why should I go there?</p>
<p>Neither. Go to Hogwarts.</p>
<p>Yale. (10 char)</p>
<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</a></p>
<p>Either school is going to do you just fine. Harvard has a medical school, which is a slight plus if you take advantage of this connection.</p>
<p>Get in first, then come back and ask.</p>
<p>wait, wustl has a bs/md program?</p>
<p>Neither. (10 char)</p>
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Yeah, but you have to have a 3.8 GPA and a 36 MCAT in college to stay in…</p>
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<p>^^^ 10char.</p>
<p>Just curious, at wustl, which one is more difficult to achieve? a 3.8 GPA or a 36 MCAT? (I am fully aware that the difficulty levels for these two highly depends on each individual’s capability. But statistically speaking, it is likely that one may be more difficult than the other.)</p>
<p>I think relative few applicants with a 36 MCAT from other college can get into wustl. If this is true, wustl does give some preference to their own students.</p>
<p>I also notice that at some colleges, it is easier to achieve a 3.8 than a 36. I remember that BRM once said that the high MCAT scores are generally rare as compared to high GPAs.</p>
<p>From what I saw at Duke, premeds with 3.8’s were rarer than premeds with 36’s.</p>
<p>What is wustl?</p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>Get into 1 of those first and then ask…</p>
<p>At WashU I would say that getting a 36 is much harder than getting a 3.8. In fact, this is probably the case at almost all universities. A 36 is no joke, and the fact that they require such a high ¨minimum¨ boggles my mind (It makes sense though, as WashU is very much a lover of MCAT scores). There are plenty of kids at Harvard, Princeton (From a quick glance at the data I have available to me, it looks like its about 50-50, but this data is in no way scientific or unbiased), etc that didn´t obtain a 36 or higher MCAT score, so regardless of what is harder to obtain, a 36 is not easy even among the top students.</p>
<p>I completely agree with you that a 36 is not easy even among top students. As a long time lurker here, just on top of my head, I know that there are at least 4 frequent contributors on this premed forum who score greater than or equal to 36. Two of them were actually MCAT instructors at one time in the past. We are lucky to have them and many other experienced ones to guide us on medical school applications and MCAT preparations.</p>
<p>If 36’s are a 50/50 proposition at top schools, then it’s a LOT easier than a 3.8.</p>
<p>BDM,
How is that? If you work hard, 3.8 or even 4.0 is very doable. Isn’t MCAT much more unpredictable? I thought that MCAT = 36 is much more rare than GPA = 3.8. Is not correct?</p>
<p>It is debatable as most schools don’t publish how much weight they give each. 3.8 and 36 are both near the average at top schools, but I would personally side with the 36 since many mid tear schools will forgive a lowish gpa in exchange. The MCAT is very unpredictable. also, as I said before the data is biased by the tendancy to brag more than to admit failure. You can see for yourself at mdapplicants.com.</p>