<p>how is premed at MIT?</p>
<p>Edit: You edited, I saw. :p</p>
<p>I have no idea about MIT's premed though. (Good thing you fixed your post about the unnamed school in Pasadena though. :))</p>
<p>probably excellent since MIT is highly excelled in Science and math</p>
<p>yeah i kinda screwed up lol...
i accidently switched posts heh</p>
<p>but yeah thanks for input</p>
<p>MIT has a really strong biology department, so i'm assuming their premed program would be very good. also, they have the MD-PhD program with harvard med school, where you get your medical doctorate from harvard and PhD from MIT in grad school, so there pre-med program would have to be really strong for them to have a program like that with harvard med school. hope that answers your question</p>
<p>do they concentrate on clinical or research aspects?</p>
<p>all my ecs are centered around the clinical</p>
<p>but it's harder to get straight As, and sometimes that matters :-P</p>
<p>dont worry about how your ec's will coordinate with your intended major. that's really not what they're looking for in your application...because they said many enrolled studnets have had little or no research experience. but as for your question, i don't know the answer to that.</p>
<p>"Make visits with the rest of those that rest in pieces of my dreams"</p>
<p>rest in pieces, did you get ur name from this sage francis song? cuz its pretty sweet... :)</p>
<p>naaahh
i just made it up
lol i guess its true that there is no original thought...</p>
<p>lol k. well if ur interested, download "crackpipes" by sage francis. its actually pretty sad..</p>
<p>Well, lots of people are premed -- about 10% of the school considers themselves premed.</p>
<p>It can be somewhat difficult to get the pristine GPAs that medical schools look for, and it's probably for this reason that MIT applicants have a lower acceptance rate (82% for undergrad applicants) than students at grade-inflated peer schools (I believe many of them are in the 90%s). Still, there are a whole bunch of successful premeds at MIT -- last year one of the seniors was a premed double-majoring Rhodes Scholar. (True story.)</p>
<p>There are a bunch of stats relating to premedical MIT students [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html%5Dhere%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html]here[/url</a>]. Browse to your little heart's content.</p>
<p>I'd be happy to answer any other questions -- I'm a biology major, so I'm very familiar with premeds.</p>
<p>oh hell ya
thanks a lot for the statistics</p>
<p>is being a premed a lot of work at MIT; is there any free time available?
also hows the clinical internship opportunities there?</p>
<p>thanks a bunch man</p>
<p>I don't think being premed at MIT is any more work than just being a normal MIT student -- many of the premed requirements (physics, calculus, biology) are General Institute Requirements, so everybody at MIT takes many of the premed classes. (I think because of this, there's not a very intense "weed-out" of MIT premeds -- unlike most other schools, everybody is taking the "premed" classes.)</p>
<p>Actually, I think the general opinion at MIT is that being premed is easier than many other sorts of things MIT students do. I have a friend (who just got into a bunch of awesome MD/PhD programs) who is premed and still has time to do both cheerleading and volleyball and be an officer in her sorority.</p>
<p>MIT itself doesn't have a medical school, but I've heard of many people getting clinical internships at many of the hospitals around, like Mass General. (There's a particular program, the Externship program, which matches current students with alums in many fields over the January break -- many of those alums are doctors.)</p>