<p>Any info on being a premed at Yale would be helpful or what medical school Yalies get into. Also, what would be the best undergrad major for premeds?</p>
<p>this is a silly question most high school pre-premeds ask...
but i'll reply seriously...:)
if you can manage to get into Yale your medical school options will be the best in the world...Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Washington U., U name it!
as for your major, it doesn't matter as long as you do well in it and do well in the prereq premed courses
application/admissions statistics have consistently shown that admissions into medical school is not at all affected by what your major is, but by how well do in your major and in premed courses (and of course how well you do in MCAT)...
regardless of your major, you'll also take a lot of other liberal arts courses, as will any other premeds...
in the end, premed applicants will be compared based on the premed courses they have taken, the MCAT scores, extracurricular activities, and final med school interview (if you manage to get to that point)</p>
<p>final NOTE:
experience at Cornell:
even if you get a 3.0 gpa at Cornell, you still have a shot at Medical School in the US (non-minority)...
what does this mean for you??
keeping a 3.0 or higher at Yale is only better, as Yale is much better school than Cornell...</p>
<p>Rashbabu-what are you smoking?</p>
<p>Cornell's GPA is bell-curved. What does that mean? YOU actually get CURVED down...</p>
<p>Let's compare Harvard (yale or Pton too for that matter). A couple of years ago- Harvard grdting class had 90% w/ Honors. Much of these top schools have RAMPANT grade inflation whereas Cornell/MIT/JHU has NOTORIOUSLY NO grade inflation and this is taken into account by med schools</p>
<p>there's stats available at the career center there. I looked last year, and over a third went to ivy/ivy caliber (like stanford) med schools.</p>
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<p>"over a third went to ivy/ivy caliber (like stanford) med schools."< which is probably why they come to Cornell...to have a shot at good med schools...</p>
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<p>but as for the bell-curve at Cornell:
let's be serious and honest for once, those who fall below the curve tend to be those who didn't study, or who are general "Cornell is hard" complainers, or just don't have the appropriate background (prereqs) to take such a course</p>
<p>i have experienced the so called curve, and from my experience, when i wasn't prepared for the exam i fell below the curve, and when i felt prepared for the exam i did very well...
i knew kids who didn't do so well in premed courses, and honestly those students were not at the appropriate level of academic (whatever) to understand or master the course material.
and i found that it was very hard to fail a class, with a curve...most professors give a C- instead of an F...how nice of them...</p>
<p>as for comparing yale with Cornell:
let's assume, a course at Cornell say NeuroBio 122 (where they learn about the central and peripheral nervous system, and neurons, etc.)
taken by exactly 100 students...
on the first exam, the mean of the exam was 78, standard deviation +/- 12.5.
If you brought to Cornell, exactly 100 random premed students from yale, and let them take the course from the beginning and take the first exam, i can predict that the yale-premed-students mean would be around 85 std.dev.+/- 5.</p>
<p>this is just my opinion about the students at Yale..but I do acknowldge that the courses at Cornell were very intellectually stimulating for me, and i always wish i could go back and take more courses...</p>
<p>you cannot argue that Yale is worst than Cornell at giving you enough intellectual ****...in fact i argue that given that Yale has siginificantly more money to back up their academic offerings, a students is only more at ease (generally more capable) at finding answers to their questions..</p>
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final NOTE:
experience at Cornell:
even if you get a 3.0 gpa at Cornell, you still have a shot at Medical School in the US (non-minority)...
what does this mean for you??
keeping a 3.0 or higher at Yale is only better, as Yale is much better school than Cornell...
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<p>Somebody, please put him out of his misery. This is the most flawed and pedestrian logic ever. Cornell is one of the most grade deflated school, which is why GPA as low as 3.0 still means something. At Yale 3.00 puts you in the bottom of the bottom quarter, since Yale is grade inflated like there is no freaking tomorrow.
If Yale was serious about their curve, only between 12 and 15% of the students in a given class would get an A. And 15 is pushing it.
You have to do a lot better than 3.00 in your pre-med track to be even allowed to call a med school admissions office.</p>
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you cannot argue that Yale is worst than Cornell at giving you enough intellectual ****.
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You should not be allowed to give opinion to prospective freshmen.</p>
<p>rashbabu, why on earth did you start comparing Cornell to Yale? That came out of the blue...
Edit: Oh, apparently you went to both schools.</p>
<p>rashbabu- >“over a third went to ivy/ivy caliber (like stanford) med schools.”<</p>
<p>I think mr sanguine was refering to yale, not cornell…</p>
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<p>LOOOOOOOOOOL</p>
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<p>PPrincess,
Go to the Pre-Med Topics subforum and read some of the stickies at the top, they will give you the background information you need about UG and applying to Med school.</p>