<p>start my pre med requierments sophmore year which is when I will (hopefully) get into a top 50 school?</p>
<p>what are the pros/cons of starting pre-med courses "late"?</p>
<p>Start them at a 4-year, any 4 year. Med schools could basically care less where you did your pre-reqs as long as they’re at a reputable institution. Most of the difference between a pre-med from Cal-Berkeley and a pre-med from some state u is the selection bias that took place when students were admitted as UGs. Harvard can’t make a 2.0 student as successful as the 3.9/1500 (I’m from the SAT 1600 days) who attends a state u and no state u is going to make someone who was Harvard material suddenly less qualified. The cream will always rise to the top regardless of the school one attends and med schools know that. The only real advantage those top schools give you is name recognition and, perhaps (assuming you utilize them), some helpful connections.</p>
<p>ok so would UT san antonio be considered “reputable”. I know its not the best of schools but it may be the best I can get as a freshmen? and I still plan to transfer to UT austin as a sophmore after (hopefully) excelling at UTSA…</p>
<p>It’s fine. By reputable, I mean a regionally accredited 4-year that doesn’t have some big stigma against it (i.e., not online, not “Argosy,” “Alliant,” or “U of Phoenix,” not affiliated w/ a Caribbean med school, etc.)</p>
<p>There are plenty of people at UTSWMC that came from UTPB, UTEP, UTD, etc. </p>
<p>And top 50 might as well be any 4 year school. Unless you’re in the top 5 or 10, there’s really no appreciable difference, and even then, it’s probably negligible.</p>
<p>ZF, I’d say you’re right. To be honest, I don’t think most people could properly rank-order the following: Oberlin, Bowdoin, Colorado College, St. Olaf & Claremont-McKenna even though those are all in the top 50 (and not particularly close to 1 another in the latest rankings).</p>