I got four Ivy rejections today lol
So… I’m deciding among Cal, UCLA, and Carnegie Mellon. I want to pursue a career in medicine, so I would like to go to a college with a good pre-med program/support. What are the pros and cons for each of these schools if I were to plan on moving onto medical school after graudation?
Edit (thanks NASA for pointing that out, should have mentioned): in-state California
Is Cal and UCLA in-state?
@NASA2014 yes. should have mentioned it in my post haha editted it
Net price at each? Medical school is expensive, so saving money and avoiding debt in undergraduate can help. See https://services.aamc.org/msar/home .
Staying in California will make it easier to get to interviews at California public medical schools. However, California in-state medical schools are less advantageous than in many other states, because (a) the in-state price is still relatively high (unlike, for example, Texas), and (b) there number of admits is small relative to the California student population, so many are forced to go to more expensive private or out-of-state medical schools anyway. CMU would be easier to get to eastern medical schools.
Imo, pick the one that leaves you with no/least debt. CMU would not be where I would pick for pre-med: brutal for grade deflation, and the first round of cuts for med school are GPA & GMAT. @mom2collegekids may be able to be more helpful on things like committee letters.
MCAT, not GMAT.
Tell us what kind of student you are…what are your stats?
Where else have you been accepted?
What is the net cost to your family for each school?
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3.87/4.0 Unweighed GPA, 4.89/5.0 Weighed GPA (yes my school offers ton of APs and honors classes), 12 APs, 34 ACT one sitting, 2230 old SAT one sitting
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You applied to a bunch of reach schools as a premed…why would you do that?
Anyway…where else were you accepted? Any other UCs? Any other schools?
You have strong stats, no argument there.
If you make it thru premed weeder classes, you’ll be applying to all the Calif med schools PLUS a very large number of OOS privates and maybe 2-3 OOS publics that take a decent number of OOS students who don’t have ties to those states.
Any of those 3 schools will be difficult for a premed. The UCs do not do Committee Letters.
CMU does write Committee Letters
Sheesh. I really do know that! Thanks for the correction, @ucbalumnus!
(I really need to stop posting on CC in the wee hours…)