Hi everyone! Just looking for options on whether It would be best to go to wake forest or a state schools honors college, such as at U Maryland or South Carolina. I’ll be going as a bio major and doing premed. I know wake typicql is considered to have more prestige, but ai’m worried about how grade deflation will impact mee school acceptance. Thanks!
Prestige matters little for premed. The primary entrance criteria for a med school are GPA and MCAT scores. The real goal is to keep the undergrad costs down since you’ll be going into debt for med school. You have public Us from different states listed to you’d be out of state and paying extra for at least one. Rethink your list.
Go to the most affordable.
Prestige doesn’t matter and GPA does affect admittance. Med schools don’t give a pass for prestige.
Ask your parents how much they’ll pay. Those are OOS publics.
What are your stats?
Wake Forest isn’t more prestigious than the honors programs at UMD. The kids there could attend some of the most prestigious colleges in the country, but don’t because Gemstone and the other honors colleges are such a great deal. My nephew, at UMD honors, turned down Wash U, Cornell and Johns Hopkins to attend. He’s pre-med too and didn’t think the other schools were worth the money, especially since it would mean going deeply into debt for med school.
mom2collegekids, while price is a consideration for my family, my parents have said that Wake and other pricey liberal arts colleges or out of state tuition are not out of the question. With that being said, there is a benefit to going wherever I can get a good education the cheapest, even if it isn’t my very favorite school. I have a 3.8 unweighted gpa with all AP’s offered and the rest honors, 2150 SAT, ranked in the top 10% of my class, lots of long-term extra curriculars most with a focus towards volunteer work and the medical field.
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colleges or out of state tuition are not out of the question. With that being said, there is a benefit to going wherever I can get a good education the cheapest, even if it isn’t my very favorite school. I have a 3.8 unweighted gpa
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I agree.
I would have a chat with my parents about whether they will help pay for med school if you get a good merit scholarship for undergrad. With my son, he took the huge merit scholarship at Alabama and his remaining costs were very low for us. Now that he’s in med school, since we spend little on his undergrad, we are happy to help pay for med school. Med school is very expensive and there are many extra expenses not covered by COA.
You would also get free tuition from Alabama with your stats, so you should apply… You’d get into the honors college as well there.
Would you mind sharing your son’s stats in college for admission to med school, GPA and mcat?
A nice perk of Wake is that it typically has very small classes – smaller than some liberal arts colleges, in fact. Even the introductory biology and chemistry classes enroll fewer than 50 students, which unheard of at most universities. Glancing through the course schedules, honors classes at USC don’t seem much smaller and in some cases (e.g. organic chemistry) are actually larger. (This not that surprising when you consider that many honors colleges are actually considerably larger than Wake’s entire undergraduate student body, such as Alabama with ~7000 honors students.)
The perks of honors colleges can include first priority registration, nice® dorms, first access to research funding and opportunities, and so on.
Apply widely. Finances should be a key concern, as others have noted.