Pre-med at Cornell, Also chances

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<p>Is it better to apply for engineering, and then take pre-med courses that way?</p>

<p>How is the courseload (Is it too much)? What would be the best major for a student wanting to do pre-med?</p>

<p>Anyway Chances</p>

<p>SAT: Took May Expecting 2100+, Retaking June for 2200+</p>

<p>SAT 2: Bio M: 730 (9th grade no AP course) Chem: 750 (10th grade no AP course) Math 2: Taking October Aiming for an 800</p>

<p>GPA: Not sure 90ish</p>

<p>Rank: School doesn't Rank, Doesn't disclose Rank</p>

<p>AP Courses after graduation: AP Cal AB, AP Eng Lang, AP Eng Lit, AP Bio, (Maybe AP U.S. History, school might offer it next year) (Only AP's offered at school,<br>
Counselor will check off toughest courseload.</p>

<p>EC's: Science Research too lazy to list everything, NHS, etc. (Not listing everything, but they are solid)</p>

<p>Rec: Will be very good</p>

<p>School type: Small crappy private (Religious), rarely sends grads to top schools. lol </p>

<p>State: NY (Will this help)?</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Pakistani/Middle Eastern</p>

<p>Hooks: Mom didnt go to college at all lol and Dad did some program in Pakistan, but never undergrad in America, So first generation college student?</p>

<p>Applying Early Decision or Regular Decision, Not sure yet.</p>

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<p>Engineering with a pre-med intention is the hardest possible combination you can take at Cornell.</p>

<p>The workload, from hearsay, is stifling and social life will be limited</p>

<p>However, you do leave yourself a nice fallback plan just in case you don’t make it to med school.</p>

<p>College will probably not be fun for you.</p>

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<p>^Alright then screw engineering lol, what would be the best major for just pre-med? </p>

<p>Also what about my chances if I apply ED? I’m kind of scared of applying to Cornell after hearing about the suicide rate. :confused: :(</p>

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<p>Your stats are a bit vague (as in all predictions), but if you predicted right (w/ the 2200 and high gpa) you have a decent shot. ED Probably a normal chance (30 - 40%).</p>

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<p>biological sciences in CALS or A&S, or Human Biology, Health and Society (HBHS) in Human Ecology are both good majors for pre-med. you could do a relatively unrelated major and still be pre-med, though, so don’t limit yourself to those.
also, Cornell does not have a high suicide rate. there were some very public suicides earlier this semester, but that was atypical.</p>

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<p>Please don’t get me wrong, I have a few friends that are engineering premeds (biomedical engineering) and they seem to be enjoying Cornell just fine. But they are perhaps the exception. </p>

<p>Like Faustarp said, HBHS is a pretty popular major that seem to require significantly less work than engineering. I am personally a Biology and Society major in CAS, which is pretty much identical to HBHS, except with more distribution requirements. </p>

<p>These two, or any hard science majors, are pretty popular choices for most pre-meds, but are in no way the only choices.</p>

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<p>@Miriam: Those aren’t predicted stats, I actually have gotten those SAT 2 scores and am certain I pulled off a 2100+ on the May SAT, but am retaking the SAT this June for a higher score. My exact gpa is about a 90.2</p>

<p>I think I’ve decided to apply ED to Cornell. It seems to have a great pre-med program plus Ivy league lol. Could you guys tell me more about Human Biology? (What’s the highest level of Math I have to take? Calculus1 or 2?). Also do many of the students at Cornell get into top Med schools? Thanks in Advance.</p>

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<p>Do yourself a favor and don’t do engineering premed, other than Bioengineering in CALS.</p>

<p>Unless you’re a God at school, you’re gonna spend more time studying and trying to fit everything in than it’s worth.</p>

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<p>^ Yeah I’ve decided to just stick with pre-med, I stated that in an earlier post in this thread lol.</p>

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<p>Whoops. Reading comprehension fail for me. haha</p>

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<p>Is it true that Cornell gives preference to NY students? Or is this just a rumor?</p>

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<p>there are lots of students from NY because of the in-state tuition in some schools (plus it’s just a good school near where they live), but they are not given explicit preference.</p>