Premed - USC or Emory?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I have done some looking around on forums and it seems that both schools have pretty good premed programs.</p>

<p>Can anyone tell me a little about the pros and cons of premed at these schools? </p>

<p>Is one more competitive than the other?
Harder to maintain high gpa?
Students cut throat?
Lots of volunteer activities?
Great professors? </p>

<p>And do the med schools usually favor students from their undergraduate school?</p>

<p>Also, tell me anything you want about these schools. I'm trying to decide which one I want to go to. </p>

<p>I live near Atlanta, have friends going to Emory, not too into football, don't really want a big party school, so I'm leaning towards Emory at the moment.</p>

<p>But I have also heard great things about USC, such as the amazing alumni network and great weather.</p>

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<p>^ I'd choose Emory if I were you. USC is great, but Emory is smaller and you'll get more care and feeding at Emory.</p>

<p>If you wanted the more exciting environment, I'd choose USC easily. Emory isn't known to have great school spirit...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7vFXB-vd1U%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7vFXB-vd1U&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br>
(The video was posted by a Vandy student in another thread, but I thought it was funny ;))</p>

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<p>^Moderator states you can't post youtube link because they don't have time to check the content of your link.</p>

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<p>Hmmm...I've never had a problem posting Youtube links.</p>

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<p>They move one of my post that has youtube and I saw a moderator posted a few days/weeks later that is the reason. Maybe they missed your post.</p>

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<p>^ Well, better click on the link while it lasts...:)</p>

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<p>Haha, I clicked. Hopefully there's more than that to do at Emory.</p>

<p>Bump, anyone else want to share some info or experiences? =)</p>

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<p>and the Vandy V. Emory saga continues.......Lilu, if school spirit is not a concern, why would you travel across the country to go to USC? Do you have other concerns about Emory that you are not stating?</p>

<p>The two schools are like comparing apples to oranges....</p>

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<p>I guess I just want more information. I may be biased towards Emory at the moment because I visited many times. I have never been to USC, but I'm going to visit in a couple of days. I guess I'll figure it out after my trip to california.</p>

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<p>^ That's the best way to decide. Have a safe trip to LA!</p>