<p>I got accepted at Schreyer Honors College, am likely to get an acceptance with the Temple BA/MD program, Notre Dame and possibly JHU</p>
<p>Right now, I think that Penn State is my first choice but my question is how good is the acceptance rate to medical school from schreyer. Also is it worth possibly giving up a assured seat in a good medical school. </p>
<p>The money is about the same at each school and not of the biggest concern.</p>
<p>If money is the same, go for Hopkins. By far, its better, and this is from a person who is going to Penn State next year. Previous premeds have gotten into the top med schools (Hopkins, Brown, Chicago ect.) but if you can get admitted to JHU, by all means go for it, though Schreyer is one of the best honors colleges in the nation.</p>
<p>Read, read, read the med school forum. People there talk this to death and there is so much to learn there.</p>
<p>The facts are that your GPA and your MCAT score will determine where and if you get in to med school. Which school will give you the best shot. I don’t think that is JHU.</p>
<p>If your goal is getting into med school you appear to be already in. You just have to do the work and not screw it up.</p>
<p>More importantly:</p>
<p>many premed majors change their minds and major in something else.
Is the temple program a year shorter? Would you save a years tuition?</p>
<p>Go read the med school forum. </p>
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<p>Thank you for your replies!
The temple program is 8 years 4 undergrad at Washington and Jefferson college and 4 with temple medical school. I think that I am pretty set on medicine and have had research opportunities that have supported this notion. My only reservation is if I should go for a better undergrad experience where I will most likely get into a medical school and possibly a better one, or just take the definite thing. By the way, state college would be closer for undergrad, but that is of little concern.</p>
<p>I love PSU, but JHU for premed.</p>
<p>*Update
I was officially accepted into the Temple/Washington and Jefferson program the other day. However, I still am having troubling deciding between the BA/MD route vs the normal route. any thoughts?</p>
<p>Congratulations on your acceptances!
My son graduated from Schreyer in 2009 and is now a med student at Boston U. Schreyer was such an amazing bargain, that he will not have to borrow so much to get his MD. It is not uncommon to come out of med school with $250,000 in loans. That kind of debt will limit what specialty you choose.</p>
<p>One very important question to ask yourself - would you choose W&J if you did not have the Temple Med School acceptance? You should be aware that the majority of college students change their majors before they graduate, and pre-meds are no exception to that.</p>