<p>Boston U -
Colgate U -
Connecticut C -
Cornell U -
George Washington U -
Johns Hopkins U -
Northwestern U -
Rice U -
Tufts U -
Vassar C -
Washington & Lee U -
Whitman C -</p>
<p>because i really dont know...
heres how id rank them however...
Boston U - good
Colgate U - good
Connecticut C - Average
Cornell U - Good
George Washington U - Good
Johns Hopkins U - Stellar
Northwestern U - Excellent
Rice U - Stellar
Tufts U - Excellent
Vassar C - Average/Good
Washington & Lee U - Good
Whitman C - Average/Good</p>
<p>I really dont know however for some of them..</p>
<p>Second, look for a place where you believe you'll excel - not just as a student (although of course that too) but as a person. Where can you find room to grow? To learn to nurture others, to demand the most out of yourself? To understand how to work and inspire confidence and professionalism - all these things are less tangible aspects that I think you can feel when you walk onto a campus.</p>
<p>Fourth, reading through old posts on this forum may lead you to one of three conclusions: prestige helps you, grade inflation helps you, and your choices doesn't matter at all. All three of these hypotheses have grains of truth without being completely correct.</p>
<p>On prestige, notice we are discussing medical students competing for residencies, but the logic probably holds:
Quote:
Bluedevilmike: The general consensus is this: they have a list of "good schools" and list of "other schools"...</p>
<p>If you are from a "good" school, and your application has no glaring flaws, then you get an interview. If you are from an "other" school, and your application does not have any glaring HIGH points, you do not get an interview. Once you get an interview, that becomes the most important component of their decision, although other things still matter.</p>
<p>Special features - either good or bad - might be board scores, class rank, a second degree, etc.</p>
<p>On grade inflation:
Quote:
bluedevilmike:If undergrad GPA was all that mattered, and undergrad institution didn't matter at all, then you'd see that among undergraduate schools, all the kids admitted would have the same grades. After all, if school doesn't matter, then isn't a 3.65 the same, no matter where you get it from? A 3.65 from nowhere state should be the same as a 3.65 from Berkeley, a 3.65 from Duke, and a 3.65 from MIT.</p>
<p>On whether it matters at all:
Quote:
Bigredmed:[Don't] look at prestige as a deciding factor - that name recognition... But there are plenty of other factors that undergraduate institutions provide that vary from school to school... These are probably hard to quantify in a really meaningful way. And the schools that really do well in these categories may or may not line up with the prestige rankings...
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=197765%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=197765</a></p>
<p>You do realize that this is stickied to the top of the premed forum right?<br>
Also, Hopkins is only stellar if you survive. Survival is of the fittest and you have to be pretty damn fit to survive there. Cornell isn't as cut throat, but is competitive none the less. norcalguy can fill you in on that. I doubt you're going to get the answer you're looking for on CC.</p>
<p>Ok, I wont ask anymore :)
But at least tell me about Whitman College. Its the only one I have NO idea about the pre-med program or even if it has one. The other schools have a generally high acceptance of graduates in med schools which means their school prepared them well. Whitman didnt post percentages. Does anyone know anything about this school in particular for pre-med?</p>
<p>Really, the difference between good, average, and stellar is so subjective that EVEN IF we managed to do this for you it wouldn't help you at all.</p>
<p>I'm from WA state, and Whitman isn't known for its pre-med..it's more of an english-major scholar school, not really pre-med..but that's what I hear.</p>