<p>anyone know where to find an official pre-med college ranking? something similar to the us news stuff?</p>
<p>No such thing.</p>
<p>then how do i know where to apply for pre-med?</p>
<p>You can really only shake your head at posts like this.</p>
<p>dude...i am just trying to understand what colleges should i apply to. i just wanna know atleast what the top 5 schools are for pre med.
yea...i really am shaking my head.</p>
<p>This is a "stickfied" thread. It is an important and frequently asked topic. </p>
<p>So far, all I can say is, there is no such thing as a school that actually prepares a student just for med school.</p>
<p>well, some schools(but very few) do have "pre-med majors" but that is discussed in another thread which I hope you will be able to find by yourself.</p>
<p>I find it rather pathetic that you can't decide where to go to college without a ranking. How about doing a little research on the premed process and then determining which colleges would be best for you?</p>
<p>I am entering my college as a pre-med, and I chose my school because it has really interesting seminars and a great advising program. Preparing for, and going to, medical school is a huge committment and I know it is not for everyone, so one of my priorities was to go to an undergraduate school that would help me figure out if medical school was right for me, without having to be trapped in some pre-med path if I decided I wanted to do something completely different. There is really no pre-med major, but at my college if you indicate that is your professional interest, the advising program gets you on track by giving you information about the basic courses required by most med schools for admission---but better still, the advising program gives you information about volunteer/internship opportunities and research opportunities so that you can learn more about the various health care professions. When you are ready, the advising program gives you information to help you prepare for the MCAT and information about the different medical schools or other graduate programs in health care. Pre-med students at my school can have any major---math, anthropology, spanish, etc.---which I think is great. It seems like any major will still give you enough time to complete the basic courses required for medical school (the bio/chem/math/physics sequence). My advice: don't focus on the "top" schools in terms of someone's opinion about prestige. Do it the old-fashioned way---think about what is important to you, find the best fit, and work your butt off! If you do that, you will get the kind of education that will prepare you for med school. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Good post, gaa. People need to realize that premed is essentially a sequence of introductory courses. Of course there are no rankings available. "Gee, I'm gonna go to school X because it has a really good Bio101 course!"</p>
<p>The best premed schools are the schools that you will be happiest at because that is ultimately where you will earn the best grades and be most involved socially and extracirricularly. This may or may not be at a top "highly ranked" school.</p>
<p>so does it make sense to go to a college for pre-med that is known to be an exception medical (graduate) school? i.e. Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Harvard etc? Do colleges with well-ranked graduate med programs offer good pre-med programs?</p>
<p>Please nobody kill me (if this question has been asked already), but does Berkeley have a good premed program? I've heard otherwise....</p>
<p>Thanks in advance! :)</p>
<p>gaa--what school do you go to?</p>
<p>Med schools do not give preference to their own undergrads so it doesn't make sense to go to a college simply because the associated medical school is highly ranked. On the other hand, if you happen to like Stanford or Harvard, there's no harm in going to those schools. They're going to have 90% acceptance rates to med school for the simple reason that they have the brightest, most driven students. However, if you don't like Harvard or Stanford, don't go. </p>
<p>Berkeley's acceptance rate to med school is generally in the high 60 percent range, about what you would expect for a top public school.</p>
<p>hey norcalguy, just wanted to say that your advice makes sense. now, would u be able to advise on whether a Bs/Md (7-8 year program) that allows someone to skip the mcats is better than the traditional system of 4 + 4 years?
btw..what college do u go to?</p>
<p>Bs/MD programs are great if a) you don't mind missing out on the college experience a bit b) if you are very very sure you want to be a doctor (you will probably have doubts at some point during your college career) c) have the stats to get in. Those programs are typically very competitive since they guarantee you admission into med school.</p>
<p>The traditional path is better for someone who's unsure of their future career (which most high schoolers are).</p>
<p>I go to Cornell but I'm from Northern Cali as well (obviously).</p>
<p>Some schools (Emory, Northwestern) do give preference to their own undergrads, but the majority (Duke, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, etc.) are actually rumored to put their own at a mild disadvantage.</p>
<p>I am skeptical of Berkeley's reporting. They're dramatically incomplete, capturing at most 20% of their applicant pool, and I believe firmly that the number is at least a little bit lower than the high 60s they report, both for methodological (their stats could be systematically biased), mechanistic (seems to me like it'd be a bad school), and anecdotal (my friends from Berkeley tend not to do well) reasons, but of course none of these are as good as empirical data.</p>
<p>It's probably closer to the low 60's and Berkeley's track record in getting applicants into top med schools over the past few years has been very poor for some reason. But 60-70% seems about right as it's what top publics like UVA and Berkeley report.</p>
<p>drsarah, in answer to your questions, WashU</p>
<p>regarding bs/md programs, some of them probably would give you a better undergraduate experience as you won't have to deal with the pressures of being a pre-med. But others, especially the 6 yr and some 7 yr programs, are incredibly intense and require summer study because you would have to cram 4 yrs worth of classes into 3 or even 2 years. I personally don't recommend those, but it depends on your taste.</p>
<p>No offense crueltrit, but with your grammer theres no way your going to make it into Harvard, Stanford, etc.</p>
<p>***there's</p>