<p>I am a HS student in PA and have started looking at colleges around me. I am interested in Swarthmore, however I would like to know what the pre med program is like at Swarthmore as well as what it's like trying to get into med school from there.</p>
<p>There is no pre med program at Swarthmore. I suggest you research the College website before lazily throwing out questions which could be easily answered in more depth elsewhere.</p>
<p>I think that was unnecessary. There isn’t a premed major, but there is a premed program and advisor and common set of experiences.</p>
<p>We found the Colleges’s pre-med advising office, the faculty committee, and this robust website of great help. Be sure to click on the offered links.
[Swarthmore</a> College :: Health Sciences Office :: Health Sciences Office](<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/student-life/health-sciences-office.xml]Swarthmore”>Health Sciences Office :: Swarthmore College)</p>
<p>My daughter was pre-med at Swat. She was a biology major and did a lot of coursework in the humanities, especially art and literature. She had outstanding preparation for medical school at Swat, especially with research opportunities to which she was alerted by Gigi Simeone, the health sciences adviser. Gigi does an outstanding job with guiding students over their four years at Swat so that they can position themselves for success. If you get to know her your first year and schedule regular meetings with her, she makes sure that you stay on track for med school. Keeping a med-school worthy gpa at Swat is harder than at some other schools because Swat is so academically rigorous. Some Swat students take chemistry or physics required courses at universities near their home in the summer in order to not have to sweat the gpa in those courses. But my daughter took all her courses at Swat. The rigor is good when it comes for being well prepared for the MCAT. Swat has an excellent reputation with medical schools.</p>