Pre-Med @ Drew: Bio/Biochem

<p>Hey fellow CCers,</p>

<p>I was accepted to Drew University and I was just wondering about the quality of the pre-med advising there, like how many students go through it and make it to top medical schools?</p>

<p>I know the acceptance rate to med school is a bit subjective, as some skls hold back under-qualified students for the sake of statistics but i'd like to know if it would be feasible to do pre-med here?</p>

<p>Additionally can anyone enlighten me as to the strenght of the biology program or the biochemsitry program, beacause I was accepted for bio but 'm planning to switch to biochemistry?</p>

<p>Drew’s pre-med program is strong. Most underqualified students drop out of the pre-med track after freshman year or are dissuaded from applying to med schools, so most Drew students who apply to med school get into at least one. The biochemistry program is run by the chemistry department. This is a bit subjective but I felt that the better students at Drew drifted toward chemistry/biochemistry and away from the biology department. However, I knew students from both departments who were admitted into med schools. Switching majors is very easy at Drew, particularly between biology and biochem. </p>

<p>Drew is definitely a feasible place to do pre-med if your family can afford the tuition or if Drew gives you a nice financial package. I strongly advice you not to go deeply in to debt to come Drew if you planning on going to med school afterwards, since that’ll result in years of compounding debt.</p>

<p>Thanks dwainwr, any more responses!!!</p>

<p>Good luck, I have heard good things about it, my son didn’t know that many in the Dual degree program though, just Bio.
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<p>I said something once about the great stats of my daughter’s college in getting med students in, the weeding out, and wondering how fair that was. Someone made it seem more logical than caring about stats. If they know so many students probably wont get in, why write the recs and have them apply to just get rejected? This way the med schools know when “X” school sends students there, they are of a certain calibar and the recs ring true. To give them to everyone would mute it for everyone.
Drew seems to have good luck with entrance to medical school and I know the program is strong. </p>

<p>I agree, if you can afford it, it’s fine, if not, it can be very expensive.</p>