<p>Please rank the following school's strength of science departments in relation to their output of medical students and their MCAT scores (I know its incredibly hard, but a rough sketch would be great) Thanks</p>
<p>-Notre Dame
-Dartmouth
-Harvard
-Middlebury
-Rochester
-Tufts
-Wash U in St. Louis
-Williams College
-Cornell
-Rochester
-Georgetown
-Colgate
-Colby
-Swarthmore
-Bowdoin</p>
<p>They are all good. Cornell has a great pre-med program. So does Rochester (which you listed twice).</p>
<p>How about Penn State’s accelerated medical school program? Where would that be ranked?</p>
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<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>lol I don’t really know</p>
<p>these schools are different from each other in their campus culture, but each will, no doubt, are well equipped to prepare the serious student for medical school. if you truly enjoy the outdoors, though, you might visit those schools with the type of outdoor program you can see yourself in. for some schools it may be problematic. for instance, georgetown, washu, tufts, rochester, and notre dame may not have the same, intense, outdoorsy folks as the other schools. but all these schools take their academics seriously and any student surviving the rigor of their science departments should be fine. </p>
<p>good luck.</p>
<p>Cornell is excellent, but notoriously tough (great prep for med school though). I’d say the same for WUSTL. Can’t go wrong with Tufts. I’m sure Notre Dame is excellent. All the others tend to strike me as having much more of a focus on liberal arts and may not be as strong/devote more resources to pre-med</p>
<p>Where would we find out what MCAT scores these grads had?</p>
<p>LibeSlopesman–I agree with your post (btw, with LibeSlope as a name I suspect you represent Cornell) but if one choses an LAC it doesn’t mean the ‘focus is on liberal arts and may not be as strong/devote more resources to pre-med.’ I know many M.D./PhDs who went through the very LAC’s mentioned by the OP. These particular LAC’s devote serious resources to their science departments. True, they don’t have medical schools attached to them but those who graduate can move forward knowing they are qualified for top med schools. I currently live next to WashU and S1 had to endure a painful and long series of tests at their excellent med. school (BarnesJewish). The specialists he met with were from an interesting variety of colleges and universities. Two of his doctors graduated from Bowdoin, where he is now a junior, and one from Middlebury. Others came from Ivies, state flagships, and top privates (both LAC’s and universities)
This gives me the notion that top students find their way through any program and into top med schools. . . but remember, I really don’t know anything;-)</p>
<p>Well there is no real top premed program, but I would say bowdoin, Cornell, or wash u. But any higher tier school will have a good “premed” program.</p>
<p>Schools on that list with more active research are probably a better fit since a lot of premeds want Ugrad research on the resume</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>Unfortunately, I’m only familiar with WashU’s, but I can provide a little input on it. It’s a good program for students looking for personalized advice from their premed adviser, and they will definitely work to prepare you well for the MCAT. Their own med school is extremely selective (and often has one of, if not the, highest average MCAT for their incoming class), so the atmosphere of their premed program reflects that focus. Their premeds don’t always have the best GPAs, but a good friend of mine with a low 3ish GPA had a mid 30s MCAT and was offered early admission at an allopathic medical school.</p>