<p>So i have been wondering about the best places for premed in Massachusetts for quite a while and whereas i know the best universities in that state I'm not quite sure which is better than the other when it comes down to premed and med or which even have premed as an option for undergrad. Can you help me out?</p>
<p>why limit yourself just to MA?</p>
<p>Premed is not a program. It is a set of courses that you take in order to call five for medical school admission. Therefore it is just a label you apply to yourself. Obviously, then, all schools in the country have it.</p>
<p>You can be any major and be pre-med. It is not a major or a program, it is just a set of classes that you take (usually biology, chemistry, organic chem, physics, biochem, etc.) that are required for admission into medical schools. You can major in Sociology and still be pre-med.</p>
<p>All schools in Massachusetts will therefore offer this…UMass, Brandeis, Harvard, BC,BU, Northeastern, Suffolk, Simmons, etc. etc.</p>
<p>Pretty soon a regular poster will chime in to recomend Holy Cross, like he does with every post mentioning medicine (and these days other majors, too).</p>
<p>You should know that HC will only write a favorable recommendation letter to medical schools for its top students. Applying without a strong letter is futile, so in effect HC can control who applies to med school. As a consequence this lets them report a surprisingly high med acceptance rate.</p>
<p>even have premed as an option for undergrad</p>
<p>Every univ has “premed” as an option. It’s not unique. It’s just REGULAR classes that are offered at EVERY school…even at CCs. </p>
<p>Are you instate for MA? IF not, why go there? </p>
<p>What are your test scores and GPA?</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay each year?</p>
<p>The goal of a premed is to get the highest GPA possible. To help with that, it’s a good idea to select a school (that you like) where your stats are very high for the school. To go to a school where you were super lucky to get accepted would mean that your premed classmates will be stronger than you and more likely they will get the A’s.</p>
<p>Agree with other posters Holy Cross and Tufts.</p>
<p>^and there you go Mikemac</p>
<p>Sorry for all the confusion everyone, here are my stats:
GPA, unweighted should be no less than 3.5, school will provide me with GPA soon
SAT scores will com out in 6 days
Taking SAT 2 in December: bio molecular, chem and math level 2C
activities:have some hospital volunteer work, 30 hours also some charity work
, 30 hours, and other minor activities
and when it comes to money its not an issue right now
hopefully i helped, and by the way everyone, this premed thing makes much more sense to me, and no i am not limited to Massachusetts nor am i a resident, but i just wanted to know some good universities for me to go to that are strong in that related field that’s all, but feel free to post any universities that are relevant but not too strong such as harvard.</p>
<p>What do you mean by saying money Isn’t an issue “now” ? Will it be an issue at some point or will your parents pay whatever the costs are?</p>
<p>i meant that it does not matter, sry for not clarifying</p>
<p>Oh good…so your parents will pay full cost no matter where you go. :)</p>
<p>So…when you have your test scores, we can better recommend schools.</p>
<p>What is your home state?</p>
<p>What kind of schools do you like?</p>
<p>Quiet small
Rah rah large
rural
city
are Catholics ok?</p>
<p>muhlenberg college (in pennsylvania)is the best all around school in my opinion.
you want to be happy and learn a lot in a supportive environment with happy students.</p>
<p>a bigger school u of pittsburgh honors college if you can get in.</p>
<p>both of those schools have a joint bs/md program
pitt is 8 years at pitt undergrad/md
and muhlenberg has a joint program with drexel med school and another one with temple university.</p>
<p>“are Catholics ok?”</p>
<p>Wow, are you serious?! Catholics happen to be main stream society, in case you hadn’t noticed. It’s not as if they push their beliefs on others like some evangelical denominations do. Why, at places like Boston College there is little to no discernible difference between its students and those of other, secular, colleges.</p>
<p>Let’s stop separating out Catholics as if they were some sort of unfortunate affliction whose existence is barely tolerable.</p>
<p>And, mom, by the way, if you are protestant then you own ancestors were at some point Catholic. Would you feel uncomfortable with them?</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Oh good heavens! I’m Catholic…very Catholic. </p>
<p>I was asking because some people don’t want to attend Catholic univs.</p>
<p>Sorry, mom, wrong assumption.</p>
<p>It was the implication of the question - “are Catholics ok?” that disturbs me, as if to be Catholic is to live perpetually in the Dark Ages with no hope of attaining the ‘light’ that is man’s intellect.</p>
<p>Well, Jesuits, as you may well know, were founded in that age of humanism which is the Rennaisance and were always scholars and teachers of the highest order. </p>
<p>Now, we have, for the first time (!) a Jesuit pope, who has already begun opening new paths for the Church and may, at long last help it emerge from its backward ways.</p>
<p>If people choose to be ignorant of the very real quality of Jesuit education then it is their loss.</p>
<p>You know, perhaps the best thing about Jesuit schooling is that while it strongly endeavors to educate and enlighten the mind it does so with faith in a superior being to man and a wisdom to see that man is not the beginning and the end of all, much as we have flattered ourselves into believing it.</p>
<p>leanid, I think mom2collegekids meant catholic schools not catholic people. chill out a little.</p>
<p>Leanid…</p>
<p>There are some folks that prefer to attend univs that don’t have a religious affliliation. There are some parents that won’t pay for a Catholic univ. That’s their choice. I tend to ask if “Catholics are ok” (meaning Catholic univs) so that none of us will bother listing some of the many Catholic univs out there to people who won’t consider them.</p>
<p>What’s in state for you?
Will you need financial aid? Merit aid?</p>
<p>well this got a bit out of hand, but no i very much would prefer a non-religiously affiliated university
and i used to live in the us(for 12 years in Massachusetts), i have an american passport and social security number, i live in Lebanon now( I am an American, Canadian, and Lebanese citizen)and attend one of the best schools there, financial aid would be very helpful if the average aid package offered is not meager.
and i forgot to add this to my test scores in the previous posts, I’m taking AP bio, chem and calculus BC this year, i have already taken AP calculus AB, physics C mechanics, and physics C electricity&magnetism, i scored a 5 on each and I’m also a senior and male. I’ll provide my SAT scores as soon as they come(that’s in four days by the way)</p>
<p>Hope this helped clarify things for everyone</p>