<p>I am just wondering how "good" the USC pre-med advising and rate of acceptance is? Anything will help! Thanks!</p>
<p>Bumb, i would like to know as well</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm also very interested to know about this as well... couldn't find anything on their website.</p>
<p>I'm actually a pre-med freshman student here at USC. I'm doubling in poli sci and bio. I really think the advisement here is great. I really connected with the two advisors, and they really do care. Back in the past, USC wasn't on par with schools like UCLA when it came down to biology or the sciences. I think it's changed today. The students at USC in the sciences this year have got to be one of the brightest groups, if not brightest ever. Students have rejected great schools like Brown, and some ivys, as well as UCLA, Berkeley and all to go here and study in the sciences. USC is going to be up there. But yeah, advisement is good/great.</p>
<p>Why do you say the advisement is so great? I guess I don't understand what you are saying. Can you please elaborate?</p>
<p>Do you know what the average rate of acceptance is?</p>
<p>average rate of last year's acceptance to college of arts and letters is 24 percent. Sciences is part of Arts and Letters. Advisement is great because it's more of a personal atmosphere as opposed to a huge school like UCLA. It's easier to double major as well because they encourage it here. At least my advisor knows my name personally. It's cool.</p>
<p>they give you a preplanned course pre-med guideline, and a bunch of info on getting to med school. they prepare you well.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I meant the med-school acceptance rate for students at USC lol.</p>
<p>Hey im a premed soph. @ USC majoring in Neuroscience and the statistics of premed students from SC goin to Med school is in the neighborhood of 60-75%. Its actually pretty good and the programs here are excellent. Out of the Premed students who are endorsed by USC when they apply to med school, roughly about 80-90% are accepted to med school. Alot of opportunities and great professors.</p>
<p>USCwannabe, thanks a lot! I'm a neurosci major at Baylor (freshman though, so I haven't declared yet). We have a 50-60% acceptance rate and my father is convinced USC is a backwards step for pre-medical programs. However, I really want to transfer there.</p>
<p>Do you know if there's a concrete stat online I can show him? People have said that USC isn't all that great for sciences and I refused to believe them lol. I think they just have certain incredible programs that overshadow what's already an incredible school.</p>
<p>Thanks again :)</p>
<p>Hmm well i dont know of official stats. I got my numbers from the Pre-med advisors here. Call them and ask them for official stats. USC is definately under rated in the natural sciences, but i think in the next few years, you will see a change. The programs are actually really good, it will just take time for the word to get out.</p>
<p>How much are you actually paying for USC?</p>
<p>Four year old thread about the pre-med program… this is interesting.</p>
<p>mariasantiago253- tuition costs are available at the USC website.</p>
<p>Quite interesting.</p>
<p>I guess word has gotten out. I’m applying!</p>
<p>This thread is 4 years old but here is the acceptance data:</p>
<p>[Pre-Health</a> FAQs > USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences](<a href=“http://college.usc.edu/pre-health-faqs]Pre-Health”>http://college.usc.edu/pre-health-faqs)</p>
<p>I would say stay out of USC when you are doing premed. I’m a premed freshman @ USC and I’m transferring out of this school. The class size is incredibly huge(for bio-250+ people, same goes for chem) and I’ve heard that the class size won’t shrink even for upper level courses like Ochem. ANd the professors here for science are terrible…especially bio profs, not only don’t they know how to teach but they also make the test so difficult. I’ve heard that people get C here get A- at UCLA. And the questions are not supposed to help you understand the concepts but really mean to weed you out of the class. Plus USC has way more many people than it can support. The advisement here is not as I had expected. COME ON WE ARE A PRIVATE SCHOOL!!!</p>
<p>Any comments from other pre-med USC students?</p>
<p>Although I’m not a student and only a prospective transfer, I can vouch for the advisement at USC. Just around this past August I sent an advisor from the Chem dept. an email asking for advice on what classes I could take that would give me a better chance at transferring. I dropped my number in the email and sure enough I received a call from the advisor no more than 2 hrs after I sent my email. She helped me plan out a course of action and gave me plenty of useful advice, in fact, we still communicate and she’s answered all of the questions that I’ve had since then. If it was some other place, I am more than positive that I would have just received a simple email telling me things I would have already known.</p>
<p>But anyway, I would also like to hear from pre-med students at USC, being that I’m pre-med and it’s my top choice for transferring to right now.</p>
<p>All the premeds are probably busy studying for the finals.</p>