<p>The answer to your question must indubitably be U.Va. haha I’m slightly biased as I will be attending there, but I looked for a similar atmosphere and visited Duke, U.Va., UPenn and the likes and obviously you can’t go wrong with any of them or any of the other schools mentioned on the thread but…Charlottesville is beautiful, academics amazing, and Rugby Road a frat house, party scene haven.</p>
<p>OP, at least apply to UCONN for a financial safety school, what if one of your parents loses his/her job or something? It happens quite frequently these days.</p>
<p>“But you have to realize that UC doesn’t try to restrict the number of applicants from its students applying to med school – via campus-to-campus advising – to pump up acceptance %'s.”</p>
<p>This is so very true at Michigan as well.</p>
<p>It’s ok, I’m not really interested that much in the UC schools, IMO they seem like the school itself is an actual city, and that’s just too much for me. As for safety schools, I have a few in mind, I’m just not posting them in this forum because as I said they are safety schools, and in this forum I’m looking to find schools that would be great for me.
I don’t think I need to worry about that too much, it’s difficult to explain but their jobs are extremely safe, and unless that quit there is almost 0 chance of them being unemployed.
In addition to that, I’m not to keen on going to a public school that I would not be in state for, I don’t like the idea that I would be paying a lot more to go there than everyone else, but since they all pay less still have a lesser quality school.</p>
<h1>*But you have to realize that UC doesn’t try to restrict the number of applicants from its students applying to med school – via campus-to-campus advising – to pump up acceptance %'s."</h1>
<p>This is so very true at Michigan as well. *</p>
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<p>I think this is true for many publics. Publics are less likely to restrict who can apply to med school.</p>
<p>And to the person who doesn’t think Committee Letters are a big deal…you’re wrong…they are. </p>
<p>And the harsh grading curves are in the weeder pre-med pre-req classes.</p>
<p>People should not suggest Tufts or Bucknell as safeties. They are both very selective schools. Especially since the OP had a 187 PSAT (low for the above two schools). S/he plans to bring it up to at least 2100–but planning is not necessarily doing.</p>
<p>Safeties should be schools w/ higher acceptance rates. Probably his/her state schools and some other lower tier 1 or top rated regional schools.</p>
<p>Might look at Holy Cross-great pre-med program with strong science majors. HC has very nice campus 1 hour from Boston with a strong school spirit/social life. Holy Cross is also need blind for admissions.</p>
<p>Colgate U perhaps</p>
<p>Look at Rice in Houston, TX. It’s next to the world’s largest medical center, and students have plenty of research/volunteering opportunities in the Texas Medical Center (which contains world-class institutions like MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor School of Medicine, University of Texas in Houston Medical School, Texas Children’s Hospital, Methodist Hospital, etc.). After spending a year there, I would argue it is one of the best schools (along with Duke, Stanford, and Michigan) to attend if you are interested in studying medicine.</p>