<p>I have been admitted to the Honors Program within LSA for fall 2010. I am just wondering if anyone has experience as a pre-med at michigan? How has it been so far? How difficult is it to maintain a high GPA? (I know it will be difficult at any great college) Would you recommend michigan for a pre-med?</p>
<p>What is your definition of a high GPA?
And I definitely recommend honors.</p>
<p>Around a 3.8</p>
<p>Michigan is good for pre-med. On average, over 100 Michigan students are admitted into top 10 Medical schools annually and the placement rate into Medical school for prem-meds with 10+ MCATs and 3.6+ GPAs is roughly 90%. 75% of students with 3.4+ GPAs (this is relatively easy to maintain) and with 8+ scores on the MCAT (again, relatively easy to get) is 75%.</p>
<p>[UM</a> :: The Career Center :: Students :: Pre-Medicine :: Medical School Application :: UM Application Statistics](<a href=“http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/students/med/medappstats.html]UM”>http://www.careercenter.umich.edu/students/med/medappstats.html)</p>
<p>3.8 is doable, but you must have friends.</p>
<p>Blackpen, could you explain more why a 3.8 gpa must need friends? Thanks.</p>
<p>I’ve heard both sides of this story. Michigan has a good reputation for pre-med but I know of people who felt their chances for medical school would have been better at a school where it is less difficult to maintain a high GPA. A lot of people in my high school class went to MSU for this reason but I don’t think it really made much of a difference. If you were accepted into Michigan Honors Program I would not be too worried about your ability to maintain a high GPA and I would make your college selection on where you want to go college as opposed to which college will give you the best chance of getting into med school. College is more than med school prep.</p>
<p>Although I haven’t completely decided whether or not I want to go to medical school, I’m completing all the requirements just in case and am pretty familiar with the premed population. </p>
<p>Here is the range of premeds I’ve encountered in terms of competition:</p>
<p>Most competitive: very uptight, won’t talk to you, think you’re trying to copy their homework, won’t let you look at their notes during class if you were distracted for a few seconds, works alone in lab whenever possible, leaves clueless people out to dry</p>
<p>Least competitive: very laid back, willing to help you when asked, open to work in groups in lab and help out others that are clueless</p>
<p>It’s kind of funny, but the smartest premeds I’ve encountered have been the least competitive. Those of average or slightly above average intelligence tended to be the most competitive.</p>
<p>I haven’t encountered any premeds that go so far as to sabotage someone else’s lab or intentionally damage someone else like they do at some schools (I’ve heard about it from a friend at UC Berkeley).</p>
<p>My original statement was too extreme. Let me rephrase.
A 3.8 is much easier to obtain if you have friends.</p>