<p>Hey guys. I'm new here, this is my first post. I'm a junior and I have a list of 19 colleges. I'm not going to post my stats, but I'm interested in finding out which schools would best suit my interests. I've done research on which schools seem most suitable... I simply need opinions. So far, Dartmouth is my first choice, and the rest of the list is composed of some reaches and some safeties. I'm looking to be a premed, with a major in economics. I don't want a cutthroat, competitive atmosphere. I just want to be able to enjoy college and go to an amazing med school. Any thoughts on my list? Here it is:</p>
<p>-Amherst
-Bowdoin
-Bucknell
-Colby
-Colgate
-Dartmouth
-Georgetown
-Gettysburg
-Harvard
-Lafayette
-Middlebury
-Penn
-Princeton
-SUNY Geneseo
-U of Rochester
-Tufts
-William and Mary
-Williams
-Yale</p>
<p>As you can tell, I don't want to go to an overwhelmingly large school (penn kind of contradicts that). Thanks for your help guys. You'll be seeing me a lot more around here. This site rocks.</p>
<p>The only way I could narrow down the choices for you is if I knew your academic "statistics" and EC.</p>
<p>Maybe if you could organize the list so that we could know which schools are your safeties, which schools are your probables, and which schools are your reaches.</p>
<p>I don't know why you would pick Dartmouth over Princeton, or Harvard for that matter, if you are considering going into Premed and Economics unless you like the party scene.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is my top pick because I got such a good vibe while I was there, and I really really like the D-plan. I'm not really all about prestige, I simply think I'd have a better experience at Dartmouth. But this could change. I have yet to visit Princeton and several others. In terms of how I rate the school for my own chances of admission...</p>
<p>-Amherst = match
-Bowdoin = match
-Bucknell = safety
-Colby = between match and safety
-Colgate = between match and safety
-Dartmouth = between reach and match
-Georgetown = match
-Gettysburg = safety
-Harvard = reach
-Lafayette = safety
-Middlebury = match
-Penn = between reach and match
-Princeton = reach
-SUNY Geneseo = safety
-U of Rochester = safety
-Tufts = match
-William and Mary = match
-Williams = match
-Yale = reach</p>
<p>This is based on admissions for other students in my HS... we have a service that allows us to each stats of other kids who got in, rejected, waitlisted, defered, etc. All this aside, I'm simply trying to narrow this thing down.</p>
<p>From what the seniors of yester year have said, Middlebury is kinda secluded and not much goes on unless you interested in traveling abroad. William and Mary, like Georgetown, is a great school if you want to major in politics, gov't, and what not, but I rarely hear people refer to it as a top tier premed and economics college.</p>
<p>Well, I kind of like the secluded feeling of Dartmouth and Middlebury and Williams, because it usually implies a really tight-knit community. Thats very important to me, as well as medical school acceptance. I'll have to visit a bunch of them and try them on for size. Thanks for your help guys.</p>
<p>Amherst and Williams are not even close to as selective as Harvard or Yale. That being said, I think calling either of those schools a match is pushing it for almost anyone (especially when you're calling Penn maybe a reach)</p>
<p>I know I'm probably going to get reamed for this but...as a current first year med student, I know the process of applying, and I teach MCAT prep for Kaplan so I think I have a fairly good idea of what's going on...</p>
<p>If you are pre-med, and you want to enjoy college you're going to be far better off going to your state school or at least the place where you really WANT to go. Seriously...be the big fish in the little pond academically, or go the place where you will be the happiest. Don't base undergrad on med school.</p>
<p>No undergrad institution is going to hold you back from getting into any medical school if your grades, MCAT, volunteering, involvement, research and everything else is there. You then also have to nail your interview. </p>
<p>The only possible way that undergrad prestige will affect you getting into med school is if you end up with marginal grades and an average MCAT score for the schools you're hoping to get into. Then you can point to the academic prowess of your undergrad classes and maybe, maybe that will give you an edge...</p>
<p>Everyone on this site is way too concerned about prestige.</p>
<p>cacjr that is borderline meaningless. We had as many rejects at Yale as we did at UMass-Lowell, but that's not representative of either school's selectivity.</p>
<p>Well, nobody ever said that premeds have to major in biology. I know a kid who wants to do premed and economics too, but his reason is different than mine. He wants to do it so that in case he flunks out of orgo, he can always become an investment banker after college. I want to do it because I simply love economics and I want to continue my studies in it.</p>
<p>if you're really interested in finding out more about the schools check out The U DVDs. They give you an inside look at what the schools are really like, from the students that go there. Very helpful.</p>