<p>Yo! This is my first thread so here goes!</p>
<p>I'm planning on becoming a doctor so I'm trying to decide on which college to apply to. So far I haven't found a good site that lists colleges that offer great PreMed programs in the US. So I was wondering if anyone could list some of the best PreMed Programs in the US.</p>
<p>I'm already planning on applying to uPenn, UNC Chapel Hill, and Washington at St. Louis.</p>
<p>i usually recommend students to look into duke and penn for premed</p>
<p>Amherst
Boston College
Brown
Cal-Berkeley
Carleton
Chicago
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Davidson
Duke
Emory
Harvard
Haverford
Holy Cross
Johns Hopkins
Middlebury
Michigan-Ann Arbor
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Penn
Pomona
Princeton
Stanford
Swarthmore
Texas-Austin
Tufts
UCLA
UNC-Chapel Hill
Vanderbilt
Washington University-St Louis
Williams
Wisconsin-Madison
Yale</p>
<p>@ OP: Look at Rice University in Houston for pre-med. In my opinion, it is one of the best schools to go to for premed (keep in mind, premed is not a major, just a series of set courses you take). It is located next to the WORLD’S LARGEST medical center (Texas Medical), which includes two of the nation’s best medical schools (Baylor and Texas Southwestern). Rice has a great relationship with Texas Medical and Baylor medical school (in fact, Rice might be acquiring Baylor in the near future). All of this equals tons of research/internship/volunteer opportunities.</p>
<p>Plus, Rice’s biomedical engineering program is very strong; one of the best in the nation. Best of all, although stats can be misleading, Rice’s medical school acceptance rate is 90%; you also won’t have to worry about the cutthroat atmosphere that schools like Johns Hopkins have.</p>
<p>Moreover, Rice boasts good quality of life as well. It was ranked #2 in quality of life (behind WashU) and #15 in happiest students by Princeton Review in 2009. The residential college system, similar to the house system in Harry Potter, allows for a tight-knit college experience.</p>
<p>Other schools that are good places to go for pre-med (in my opinion): Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Stanford, and WashU. Personally, I don’t think the Ivies are the best places to go to for pre-med. Nevertheless, I proudly turned down Duke, Emory, Northwestern, and WashU for Rice :)</p>
<p>Word of advice: Don’t aim for schools only because they have the best pre-med programs. Who knows, maybe you will fall in love with a different profession during college. Look for schools that also offer good quality of life, a nice array of majors, strong academics, and whatever else you want in a school. Keep in mind that you will have to enjoy living there for four years; it is not like high school. Finally, keep in mind that you could get into med school no matter where you go as long as you work hard. The prestige of the school itself won’t guarantee you admission to a top medical school.</p>
<p>1980collegegrad,</p>
<p>I agree with you with the exception of Chicago. I do not think it is a good place for premeds in terms of support and let’s not forget about grade deflation which is pretty atrocious. For medical school, there is no doubt it is a great place.</p>
<p>Boston University is also good for Pre-med.</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as a good “pre-med.” You want to have a “top” school where you have access to a thesis and research (doesn’t need to be high level, probably better if not because its easier access) and has a strong overall reputation. Therefore without a doubt, Harvard and Stanford given their inflation/ reputation. Also brown, Dartmouth, and the top LACs Amherst and Williams. I would avoid JHU, Washu, Cal-Berk and any other school with an overtly competitive student body as your GPA will get killed and research will be harder to access.</p>
<p>Can the OP see some med school admittance success rates? Here’s one:</p>
<p>Reed 2003-08 74% (86% with a campus-average science GPA or better and at least 28 on the MCAT)</p>
<p>[REED</a> COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/medschool.html]REED”>Medical School Acceptance Rate - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>
<p>[MDapplicants.com</a> - Home](<a href=“http://www.mdapplicants.com/]MDapplicants.com”>http://www.mdapplicants.com/)</p>
<p>thanks guys</p>
<p>Duke, Holy Cross, Hopkins, Tufts.</p>
<p>I honestly would not consider WashU to have “an overly competitive student body,” nor will your “GPA get killed.” Finding research and WashU and it’s medical school is actually phenomenally easy – all you have to do is ask a P.I.! While a large amount of students here are aspiring doctors (at least as freshman :), ) I have not seen frequent instances of overt competition between students. Also, your GPA will be largely dependent on how much you study as well as what type of high school you attended. I was fortunate enough to attend a competitive and challenging high school that prepared me very well for WashU (at least so far.)</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>“Hottest Premed School” by USNews in 2008. I mean, the medical school and the academic health center can speak for itself. I’m not going to go into detail about how JHU is like a mecca for specialized medicine, public health, and biomedical research in America. </p>
<p>The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been ranked #1 for the past 19 years now.</p>
<p>As for research opportunities, Hopkins is the largest recipient of research grants in the world. As the nations’ first research university, we are the only university to break the $1 billion dollar mark in research according to the NSF, Hopkins is also the leading recipient of the NIH, NSF, NASA, DoD, etc… peer reviewed competitively funded federal dollars.</p>
<p>My Hopkins research internship in Public Health is one of FIVE projects in the nation presently funded by Obama’s Recovery Act “Stimulus Package.” The project I am working on has been given unlimited flow of federal monetary support by former President Bush for research into environment factors relating to violence, alcohol, and drug use in Baltimore city residential neighborhoods. (This means I’ll be on CNN when I present my research poster in Aug. 
) </p>
<p>Hopkins is a major research powerhouse dude. It eats up federal grant dollars like no other mother.</p>
<p>For Phead128:
I mean I know that JH is pretty much the best medical when it comes to research but what about primary care? I’m wondering because I’m aspiring to become a surgeon of some sort. Do you think a school strong in research will mean that it produces great medical researchers as well as general practitioners and surgeons?</p>
<p>For WashUChemistry:
I’ve heard many great things about WashU, however it was one of the colleges that I never got a chance to visit, how is the campus and the surrounding environment?</p>
<p>I’d go with Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Penn, or Washington SL in that order.</p>
<p>not meaning to take over your thread, but may i get some opinions on some lesser-known, less popular, up-&-coming, easier-to-do-well in colleges for pre-med? if i were to major in, say, psychology, with a biological focus? i would hugely appreciate it (:</p>
<p>A prime goal is a high MCAT score, so you probably want to find the hardest school. :)</p>
<p>There’s no premed “program”…pre med is just a set track of courses you take to be able to apply to med school. well some schools do have a combined bs/md degree program, but mainly, there is no pre med program, it is simply a track…but you can major in whatever you want.
There are plenty of schools strong in the sciences, both liberal arts and universities. You should decide whether you’d like a smaller or larger setting. Smaller schools still have opportunities for research too, and could be better than a larger school in that, you might have more hands on experience in a research project.</p>
<p>to TheycallmeCC: perhaps oberlin?</p>