<p>If I want to do pre-med in college, which school would I apply to?</p>
<p>just some advice from my sister- med schools don’t necessarily want just pre med people- contrary to popular belief. They want diversity, as long as you complete the prerecs for med school, and get a decent score on the mcat, diversity in your major is preferred. Just like law school don’t want all poli sci majors. So in that regard, maybe you should apply to pratt. you can major in bio med engin. good pre med major. or something else like biology or chemistry. but i would definitely apply to pratt.</p>
<p>Is Trinity or Pratt easier to get in to. I’m curious. Are u applying ED belle?</p>
<p>well it depends on your stats. someone who is more math inclined, like has better grades in math, math 2 subject test, better SAT math score, other pratty sorts of ECs- i would be easier to get into pratt. In terms of overall acceptance rates- Pratt has a higher ED acceptance than Trinity. And Andrew, I don’t think so.</p>
<p>I’ll chime in as a premed BME graduate (going to MSTP). Major means absolutely nothing to medical schools. They really couldn’t care less that their class is 20% humanities, 50% biology, 25% chemistry, and 5% engineering or whatever ridiculous ratio you want to insert there. What they want are people who can do the work (meaning your GPA and MCAT is up to par), who aren’t completely heartless (meaning you care about other people), who aren’t complete robots (meaning you have a life besides school), who aren’t completely clueless about what medicine is like (through shadowing and volunteering), and who aren’t completely socially awkward (unless you plan on going into pathology, j/k :D). Other than that, most top schools (read: top 10) also want their applicants to have at least some research experience even if they don’t plan on doing it. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if you are doing BME because your want to be premed and it sounds like it may be somewhat relevant, you may want to reconsider that. BME is marginally relevant to medicine (as is taught at the undergraduate level) and it’s hard. Your GPA will probably take a hit from doing BME which may come back and bite you in the ass come med school application time because med schools also don’t really take your major into account.</p>
<p>I agree with everything SBR says. My sister, she goes to UCLA med school, majored in Spanish and minored in chemistry. She did have great mcat scores and a good gpa. Her best friend, BME major got denied from JH and UCLA. He was also competing with genius BME majors. So, basically as long as you get good grades, mcat and are moderately interesting, it doesn’t really matter what you major in.</p>