<p>Where is the best school to go for undergraduate if you want to go medical school? Yale or Stanford? What is the percentage of undergraduates admitted to medical school from each of these universities? How is the dorm situations in Stanford? I like Yale residential colleges a lot. Are you guaranteed accommodation at Stanford for four years? How does the living conditions compare to Yale?
Need some answers to make up my mind.
Thank you.</p>
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<p>Please see the PreMed Topics forum, this is a FAQ.</p>
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<p>Again, see the PreMed Topics forum, the consensus is that this is not a good factor to evaluate schools, as there is no consistent methodology for how they come to this number.</p>
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<p>Best asked on the S forum.</p>
<p>There are several Stanford Yale comparison threads extant. I was in Palo Alto often during my undergrad days, visiting a GF. Their housing system is the common one – get a room w/some friends. They had nothing akin to Yale’s intimate Residential Colleges. Yale has them beat in this area hands down. IMHO, not even close. Now the weather? That’s a different story…</p>
<p>As for pre-med – you’ll find that both are equally capable of preparing students for Med school. But that’s also a function of the students that schools like Y and S admit in the first place.</p>
<p>Either school will get you into medical school unless you take life easy or find out medicine is not your goal.</p>
<p>I’m currently a pre-med freshman at Yale. I know nothing about Stanford, but I can assure you that Yale is a great place for an aspiring doctor – excellent research/volunteer opportunities at the hospital, lots of tutoring and support available through Yale’s Science and Quantitative Reasoning Center, and a generally friendly student body (though, like any other school, Yale does a handful of the crazy, competitive types). So far, I haven’t found grading to be too harsh – I believe that most classes are curved to a B or B+ average.</p>