<p>Oh wow, that's quite complicated. Your best bet would be to check out the website and call the number for more info... <a href="http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Health_Services/EMS.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Health_Services/EMS.htm</a></p>
<p>Brown is my top school. how is the premed edge there? atmosphere? please post :)</p>
<p>Pre-med here is perceived to be a lot less cutthroat than at other schools. I know people who go to places like Harvard and Johns Hopkins, where people will put things in our test tubes to screw up your chem lab. At Brown that is most definitely not a problem. Pre-med is still a lot of work, though. It's just nice not having people who want you to fail. That doesn't mean that the pre-meds are not intense at their own game. Many friends of mine are extremely driven and gifted - students at Brown generally don't feel the need to bring other people down. On average over 90% of pre-meds at Brown are accepted to medical school.</p>
<p>Is that 90% of all people who started out as pre-med in the beginning of college and then applied? I am wondering because I have heard that some schools only recommend students who they are sure will get accepted in order to increase there stats. Please tell me, though, that this is not the case since Brown is my first choice.....</p>
<p>Cornell's acceptance rate for 3.4 above gpa is 89%. Is Brown significantly higher? Is there a site that post Brown's stats of admission to medical school?</p>
<p>I'm not looking into med school, but just curious, are there statistics on how many S/NC classes Brown med school applicants take on average?</p>
<p>I went to a meeting with the Pre-med advising dean and Brown consistently has around 92% of their students accepted to med school overall.</p>
<p>rabo, i know that med schools calculate a science GPA and an overall GPA, so i dont know the exact statistic, but it seems like you could def get away with taking non science courses pass/fail, not sure about science ones.</p>
<p>On average, about 150 kids apply to medical school from Brown each year. If 90% get in, 10% don't. That's 15 kids. </p>
<p>Doesnt' seem so high when you think that the kids at Brown are some of the best in the country.</p>
<p>Anyone else nervous about APs? I have AP Calc tomorrow, so getting credit for the class would hopefully help for pre-med requirements.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what happens if I do get a 4 or 5 on BC Calc? Does that mean I don't have to take any more math for pre-med?</p>
<p>So Brown DOES take AP credits? Wow, am I ever out of it. I heard the speaker at a parent panel at ADOCH say it was only used for advancement to get into an upper-level course as an underclassman.</p>
<p>This explains Brown's AP credit policy.</p>
<p>I’m genuinely glad to hear all the enthusiasm about brown’s premed program, but it’s definitely not a piece of cake. I got into Johns Hopkins myself and while it is competitive it’s definitely not that cutthroat. I have a couple of friends there who say the program is very focused and tough, but no one wants you to fail. It’s competition–which is what pre-med and trying to get into medical school is sadly, all about. </p>
<p>As a premed at Brown right now, I can definitely say it is by no means less difficult than pre-med at any other school. The courses–especially Chemistry can be extremely difficult and time-consuming. And I’m sure you’ve all heard the Organic Chem horror stories at Brown, but honestly its about the effort. It will NOT be easy. But it will be worth it, I promise :)</p>
<p>Be forewarned though that you can’t just be accepted and think everything is going to come to you on a silver platter. You definitely have to go out there and grab it for yourself. Since there is no core program, you have to forge most of your own curriculum which can be easy for some very assertive students, but not for those who aren’t willing to experiment and explore. Some people just need structure.</p>
<p>You’ll get through it though. Everyone who really wants to does. And I have yet to meet someone at Brown who was premed and did not get into a med school of his/her choice. </p>
<p>P.S. AP Credits are accepted and can place you out of a class. However you CAN’T use it as a concentration credit. So, for example, you need 2 Biology courses (with lab) as a premed requirement. If you’ve taken AP Bio and got a 5, you can place out of BIOL0200 Foundations of Living Systems (the intro bio lab course); however, this does NOT mean you only have to take one biology course now. You STILL have to take two biology courses with a lab to get the 2 credits. However, since you placed out, you can take an upper level biology course instead of an intro course to fulfill your requirements.</p>
<p>Same goes for AP Calc. If you get a 5 on AB then you can place out of MATH0090 Calculus Part 1 and receive credit. However it does NOT fulfill premed or concentration requirements. You still have to take two math courses–but now you can skip to a higher level; i.e. MATH0100 and MATH0170 (or higher).</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>also, there is a program at brown, PLME, that allows you to get a guaranteed spot in the Brown medical school after their undergrad, but it is really competitive.</p>
<p>you can switch out if you feel that med isn’t right for you, but only those who have a strong interest in going into med should apply to this program</p>
<p>here’s the site:
[Brown</a> University: Program in Liberal Medical Education](<a href=“http://bms.brown.edu/plme/prospective/index.html]Brown”>http://bms.brown.edu/plme/prospective/index.html)</p>
<p>Brown as a whole just isn’t cutthroat or competitive, which I think is why I’ve had so many troubles this first semester.</p>
<p>That definitely does extend to Pre-Med. I’m kind of taking a break, per se, from it next semester and seeing if anything else catches my interest.</p>
<p>There is a weeding out of pre-med students at most good schools. Not just ivy league ones. That is why med school acceptance percentages are so high. Also, this is why its best to pick a school that offers a broad program-- in case pre med doesn’t work out for you. The same goes for engineering. My neighbor graduated Brown pre med twenty years ago. She loved it but chose in the end to go to law school! Became a partner at a New York law firm and now is a stay at home Mom with four children. Just wanted to show the twists and turns that an education can take.</p>