Purdue Honors vs Kentucky Honors vs South Carolina for pre-med

College Search & Selection
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We are trying to decide between Purdue, Kentucky, and South Carolina for pre- med. does anyone know or have opinions on which offer more opportunities to build a resume for med school? Or prepare you more for the mcat? Thanks in advance .

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My free advice. Your student can apply to medical school as a graduate of any of these colleges. Colleges don’t “prepare you for the MCAT”. But some of the courses required for medical school applicants contain info that is on the MCAT…but those courses can be taken at just about any 4 year college.

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  1. These are all public universities…so clearly you are not instate for all. Are you instate for any of these? I would suggest choosing the college with the lowest amount of debt. Because if medical school should that happen will be paid for with loans loans and more loans.

  2. Location location location. Where will your kid be happy…because happy kids do better in college than unhappy ones. And sometimes this is all about the location.

  3. These are all fine public universities.

@WayOutWestMom did I leave anything out?

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I have a Purdue senior who is in honors. Lots and lots of research opportunities for students and a new hospital is being built adjacent to campus which may yield some opportunities for students (not sure of completion date though).

I can’t speak to pre med advising and supports as my D is an engineer but hopefully someone else will chime in.

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Which one does she like and are they affordable?

How good is the Kentucky honors program? Not all honors programs are equal. Do they offer specialized advising for premed? A good or great honors program can make a difference. Especially at large public schools.

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Which of the three have kids get into shadowing opportunities, etc. All three are fine schools.

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The University of Kentucky has it’s medical center on campus. Whether or not that means anything as to the quality of their pre med prerequisites I can’t say. It might make shadowing or volunteering in a medical center easier but that’s a question for the school. I can’t imagine any of the three being deficient in their quality of education.

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Those hoping to apply to medical school can do shadowing and volunteering during vacations from college. Lots of people do that.

Having said that, there are usually a lot of volunteer opportunities on college campuses.

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