<p>Pre-med at Harvard Vs Princeton Vs MIT Vs UPenn's LSM</p>
<p>Please help me decide! Any advice or insight is greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Don’t bother with Penn LSM if you want to do pre-med, it’ll be extremely tough to deal with the course load and pre-med stuff simultaneously. MIT and Princeton have some serious grade deflation and are pretty bad overall for pre-med. Harvard is the clear winner for pre-med because of its grade inflation and high med school acceptance rate for undergrads.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input, I had trouble finding statistics from Harvard on its med school acceptance rate online. Do you know where I can find some? Also I heard that some in LSM do go on to med school so it’s not impossible right?</p>
<p>Here’s what Penn has to say about its general pre-med success:</p>
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<p>[Career</a> Services, University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradprof/healthprof/med.html]Career”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradprof/healthprof/med.html)</p>
<p>I’m a Princeton grad, and I know this is the Penn Board. </p>
<p>The truth is that all of these schools will give you all of the preparation and opportunities you need to get into med school. All have produced world-renowned physicians. I’ve done a fir amount of consulting for both hospitals and physicians, and have seen incredibly successful physicians coming out of all of the Ivy schools (as well as many schools of less renown).</p>
<p>There is no real data that truthfully will let you distinguish between which will give you a better shot at med school; even med school admission percentages don’t help, because some kids at each school will have looked at their organic chemistry grade and decided not to apply. There isn’t full data available, like you see for Penn Admissions.</p>
<p>Pick the school that fits you best and that you like the best. As much as I’d like to pick on Penn, our big basketball rival, the differences in education throughout the Ivy League are minimal to zero. The differences in school flavor are significant.</p>
<p>Harvard/MIT: Brainy City on edge of Big City
Princeton: Plush Suburb
Penn: Right in the Center of a Big City</p>
<p>These are oversimplifications. Spend as much time as you can before May 1 at each school to learn more about them, and if you can’t get there, do some research and some soul-searching on where you want to be and what types of kids you want to be with. </p>
<p>If you’re happy at the school, you will have the best performance, and then you will have the best chances of getting into med school.</p>
<p>Plus, bear in mind that countless premeds change their minds and decide they want to do something else for countless reasons, so I wouldn’t pick a school because of its chances of getting you into med school.</p>
<p>PS: A college classmate who was a religion major is now an orthopedic surgeon. Premed requirements are fairly basic (a year of bio, 2 years of chem, a year of physics and a year of English), so please take that into account when choosing your school as well. Doing well on the MCAT’s and doing well overall is what the med schools want to see.</p>
<p>I agree with breaker746, you’re going to have a tough time in LSM and Princeton and MIT will kill your GPA. Go to Harvard.</p>
<p>Oh alright thanks guys for your opinions! :D</p>
<p>The reason I suggest that LSM is hard for pre-med is that students I talked to said that about half of the freshmen class heading in to the program wanted to do pre-med but as each year went on, more and more students dropped their med school plans until only one person in the program ended up applying to medical school and was successful.</p>
<p>Woah, that’s rough!</p>