Pre Med colleges in California

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi, </p>

<p>I'm looking for colleges in California (preferably liberal arts) where most of their pre med students get accepted into med school. Any guidance/tips/advice about getting into med school and choosing the right college for pre med are greatly appreciated. </p>

<p>Thank You! </p>

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<p>there are no such schools. </p>

<p>Schools have a gazillion kids who say that they are premed as freshmen. By the time it comes to apply to med school, 75% of those kids have either been weeded out or have decided on another career path. </p>

<p>Schools dont “get” their students accepted to med schools. It depends on each individual student. </p>

<p>What are your stats? </p>

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<p>Claremont McKenna is a really good one</p>

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<p>How about Pomona?</p>

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<p>Bravo, are you in-state? </p>

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<p>yeah</p>

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<p>The colleges with the highest med school admission rates will tend to be the ones with the lowest college admission rates, if only because they are cherry-picking top students out of high school. I’ve seen little or no convincing evidence on CC that any particular colleges, or kinds of colleges (Ivies, LACs, flagships), have found a winning instructional or counseling formula to boost med school admission rates. Focus on finding a college you like and can afford. Med school is extremely expensive (even more than college) with no financial aid other than loans in most cases. So try to leave college with little or no debt.</p>

<p>Check out Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Reed, Occidental, Whitman, Willamette, Lewis & Clark, University of Puget Sound, and Westmont. Those are the West Coast LACs in the US News top 100. The higher-ranked schools will tend to have higher admission standards and better need-based aid. </p>

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Then you’re already going off the rails in your college search. </p>

<p>Colleges have no “magic touch” that gets their kids in. If you find a high acceptance rate, it means one of two things. They started with very smart kids (think Stanford), or they use a committee letter to dissuade any but the strongest from applying. With regards to the latter, it is easy for a college to make their admit rate be anything they want it to be.</p>