<p>How do the relative "weaknesses" of these top universities compare? (I mean that in the lightest/pickiest of senses). </p>
<p>Which would you have? (Put into the shoes of one who was 100% sure of one and one who was 100% sure of the other).</p>
<p>So you would be studying only engineering at Harvard, not premed?</p>
<p>Either way, I would choose Stanford premed in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>Given that my cousin’s financee is now at Wisconsin’s Med School after graduating from Stanford, I’d say the premed track is probably fine there.</p>
<p>Could you get a little more in-depth on specific aspects?</p>
<p>bummmpp</p>
<p>10bumps</p>
<p>Why do you care?</p>
<p>Stanford’s weak for pre-med?</p>
<p>Stanford has better weather, but Harvard has a better location if you like city life.
Seriously, nothing else is worth debating about. Two of the best universities on the planet. Debate the differences after you get accepted to both ;)</p>
<p>Why is Stanford weak for pre-med? It has a large number of pre-med students who tend to get good MCAT scores and be accepted at competitive med schools. It also has good pre-med advisors, a good number of medical-related opportunities, and some less common majors that are popular with pre-med students, most notably human biology. The majority of pre-med students probably major in a field related to biology. USNWR ranks Stanford’s biology program as #1 in the nation.</p>
<p>really. i see a lot of threads and just people in general talking saying medicine is stanfords one weakness. not true?</p>
<p>From the people I’ve talked to, Stanford’s pre-med program is strong. Personally, I’d consider the location of the schools over the programs themselves (since they’re practically equal). You’ll do the best at the school where you’re the happiest :)</p>
<p>Sounds like a ■■■■■!</p>
<p>i see. i’m actually the second. i picked harvard for engineering, i really don’t know why. I think it was just an initial rush on prestige, but also because of that harvard’s pushing for their engineers. i visited, but didnt really like the red stony architecture. harvard yard and harvard square were kind of nice, cambridge was okay, a little bit overwhelming (scattered and less “close home” feel, but overall i got a strange vibe there, yet I still went for it, and now im a little nervous. I chose it over a regents scholarship at Cal, and now I just want to see where harvards engineering stands relative. My three closest friends are doing premed at stanford (2)(i didnt get in) and cal (1), even though one got into harvard.</p>
<p>I would think Stanford pre-med vs. Harvard engineering would depend on whether you want to be a doctor or an engineer. If you want to be a doctor, you don’t want to be an engineering student at Harvard, and if you want to be an engineer you don’t want to be a pre-med student at Stanford.</p>
<p>SoCalDad, I am comparing two different people, where one took engineering at Harvard, and others took premed at Stanford.</p>
<p>If you’re not a ■■■■■, then just go confidently into Harvard knowing that you have a vast amount of resources at your disposal. Even if the engineering school isn’t top (have no idea if that’s true or not), there’s a world class technical institute only a couple of miles away which allows for cross registration and research. Also, a good percent of students change their majors (my friend at Harvard started out physics, and after his fourth change of concentration is fairly confident that he wants to stick with psych).</p>
<p>Your insistence on pushing forth your friends’ decisions and paths suggest that you are unconfident about your decision relative to theirs. Are you scared that you got the worse end of the stick? It almost sounds like you picked Harvard’s “prestige” as to ensure that you don’t personally feel inferior to your friends. And in that case, I would argue that you did make the wrong decision. </p>
<p>Stanford medicine is by no means weak. They have their own hospital on campus; their medical school is ranked somewhere in the top 3. There are lots of pre-med students going through their unique “human biology” track, and their medical school placement is fantastic. </p>
<p>At the same time, Berkeley’s prestige (especially with EECS and that regents scholarship) would have by no means been lacking, and it’s right up there with the best. I hope that wasn’t the sole motivator for your choice, because you don’t seem otherwise impressed with Harvard. </p>
<p>Good luck though.</p>
<p>*really. i see a lot of threads and just people in general talking saying medicine is stanfords one weakness. not true?
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<p>What the heck?</p>
<p>Besides, you’re talking about UNDERGRAD. Medicine is NOT taught as an undergrad. Prereq classes aren’t unique and they aren’t “medical”. They are just basic STEM classes Chem, Bio, OChem, Physics, etc. Nothing “medical” about them. </p>
<p>others took premed at Stanford</p>
<p>and, premed isn’t a major.</p>
<p>yeah, i meant the undergrad pre-med track. I just mean they are pursuing medicine through Stanford. So how does the undergrad pre-med track at Stanford compare to the Harvard undergraduate engineering track, but I guess Stanford isn’t very weak with its pre-med courses/track at all…</p>
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<p>How do apples compare with oranges?</p>