Hello,
Please share your opinion on Rowan vs TCNJ for Psychology major with Pre-Med focus. It is a known fact that GPA and MCAT scores are crucial for admissions to the US medical schools, thus,would like to know about:
Thank you!
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What % of applying students are accepted by the US medical schools
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Any figures posted are meaningless. You don’t know how many students were weeded out, how many were discouraged from applying because GPA or MCAT was low, or how strong their applicant pool is. You also don’t know how crazy their app list was. Every applicant is unique. An applicant with a strong GPA and MCAT score and a smart app list is going to have about a 75% chance of admittance no matter which school s/he attended. An applicant with a 3.3 GPA and a 503 MCAT will have a low chance of admittance.
Also, reported acceptance numbers can also be misleading because they don’t mention (or they have it in the fine print) how many were accepted to MD schools, DO schools, and/or Caribbean schools/abroad schools. Someone posted that X school had a 75% acceptance rate to med school. When i looked into it, the school had no US MD med school acceptances. It had only 8 students going onto med school (only 10 applied), and about half of those 8 went to DO schools and the other half went to the Caribbean. Their stat would be very misleading to someone who was really wanting to know about their MD acceptance rate in the US. Acceptances to abroad meds should not have been included at all since they’re not accredited by the US.
I don’t know the answers to your other questions, but every college weeds…whether it’s intentional or not. Each year, 4x as many freshman start as premed than what will actually end up enrolling in a MD or DO med school. Many will find that college level bio, chem, orgo, and physics is just too difficult…even if they had top grades in high school.
Your freshman bio class will probably be 3/4 filled with hopeful premeds. By mid-semester, a number will have dropped the class. After final grades come out, a bunch more will change career paths. Those who move onto orgo will see the same…students dropping mid-semester, and students moving onto other majors when the semester ends.
More importantly…how strong of a student are you? How strong is your science and math foundation? What are your ACT/SAT scores and GPA?
In general, popular opinion will say TCNJ is the better all-around school. However, Rowan is definitely giving TCNJ a run, especially in engineering and the sciences. Rowan has a brand new hospital right on campus and I believe a newly formed medical school. Admission is tough to both programs. I’d recommend visiting both because I think you will get very different vibes.
As mentioned above, depending on your stats, neither may be a safely. If you are a strong applicant, Rowan will likely be the more affordable.
Accepted to both schools and into Honor programs. With TCNJ it is known that switching a major is practically impossible. What about Rowan? No one seems to tell a definite answer even within school administration. The decision is even more difficult at this point!
At Rowan, changing majors seems very simple. It seems to be a non-issue. I’ve heard this again and again on visits from students and admissions people.
When we were there today, my D asked a student at the honors reception if she would lose her scholarship if she ever decided to change her major and the answer was no.