<p>what is premed at MIT like? Is it much harder to get into med school from MIT? Any insight would be greatly appreciated =)</p>
<p>People exaggerate a bit about the difficulty of pre-med here. Sure, some 19% don't get into med school, but a higher percentage than that did not come into the school intending to be pre-med. My friends who are premed are planning their schedules carefully (not taking any major risks GPA-wise) and are doing fine.</p>
<p>Is MIT good at preparing students for MCAT and med school?</p>
<p>only the best.</p>
<p>i chose MIT over 6/7 year med programs and every doctor/researcher/professor who has gone through medical school and went to the best residency programs told me I made the right decision - prob the best decision I'll ever make.</p>
<p>NO WAY!! It's streetlight :o</p>
<p>Streetlight, I guess we'll really find out whether it was the right decision if and when you get into med-school.</p>
<p>med school 73.5% acceptance rate from MIT seems a little bit too low for me.</p>
<p>I'm confused. What do you think of MIT premed or brown 8yr. med. prog?</p>
<p>That's a really tough choice. I got into Brown and MIT too, but not Brown's PLME prgm. Right now, I am probably leaning toward MIT.</p>
<p>I was actually debating this topic as well, because I've been thinking of doing med school later on. I'm not quite sure if I want to be a full-time physician, or go into academic/educational med while doing research, too. I figured that I'd try to avoid GPA-ruining classes at MIT in case I do decide to go to med school, and try more research at the same time. Then I'll decide on which path I like better.</p>
<p>As for Brown's PLME program, that is an awesome program. I guess it just depends on if you want the security blanket or not, and if you just want to be a physician or something else in the med field.</p>
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Compared to the 50% national acceptance rate?</p>
<p>My personal suspicion is that the students who don't get in from MIT are heavily engineering majors with low GPAs. Think about it -- when you're looking at the numbers from other top schools, you're also looking at people who majored in cake majors and completed the premed requirements. When you're looking at the MIT numbers, you're looking at mostly people who majored in either biology or engineering.</p>
<p>Is it better to major in brain and cognitive science or biology if I want to do pre-med? And yesterday, I just discovered MIT has a health science and technology prgm. Can you tell me more about that? Is it better than the bcs in that it is more focused on medicine and may be better for pre-meds?</p>
<p>So "easier" has a couple of meanings.</p>
<p>In terms of getting the requirements finished for both medical school applications and for graduation, it's a little easier to be a biology major; that is to say, the biology major requirements overlap more cleanly with premed requirements than do the BCS major requirements. Many of the MIT premeds I know are bio majors with minors in chemistry, just because in the course of taking the premed requirements, that's what they end up becoming.</p>
<p>There are still plenty of BCS premeds, though (I don't think the percentage of premeds is different from bio), and the BCS major gives you quite a bit of flexibility in your course schedule such that it's relatively easy to complete the major and the premed requirements. (A major like aero/astro, which has a lot of inflexible required courses, would probably be least ideal for a premed.)</p>
<p>As you may have already discovered, the HST program is for graduates only. Sorry. :( You can still take HST classes, though, which are mostly administered through the BCS program.</p>
<p>Do MIT premeds end up going to good-quality med schools? When I looked at the pdf chart of statistics (from the MIT careers website showing which med. schools MIT people got admitted to), the stats. also included graduate students and alumni people. So does anyone know what proportion of the stats. relate only to MIT premed. seniors who just graduated?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the stats on that page are the only ones of which I am aware.</p>
<p>My impression is that yes, the MIT students who end up applying to medical schools generally end up in good medical schools -- I have friends who are heading next year to Cornell, Wash U in St Louis, and UT Southwestern Medical Center, all of which are top 20 programs according to USNWR. But of course, I have no idea if that's reflective of the seniors as a whole or if I just have amazing friends.</p>
<p>Do BCS pre-meds end up at good med schools?</p>
<p>There shouldn't be any difference between bio and BCS premeds, but again I certainly don't have any data.</p>
<p>"I chose MIT over 6/7 year med programs and every doctor/researcher/professor who has gone through medical school and went to the best residency programs told me I made the right decision - prob the best decision I'll ever make."</p>
<p>how important are your MIT GPA, extracurricular activities, and MCAT score affect you on the medical school application?</p>