Top Pre-med programs

<p>I'm just wondering what schools offer the most comprehensive medical backgrounds. A lot of the schools I've researched are just graduate schools for medical studies, but what about undergraduate programs? Which colleges have solid biological, anatomical, physical, etc... science departments that would prepare someone for a tough four years at med school?</p>

<p>The best (in terms of sheer statistical success at getting premed students into the top medical schools) are MIT, Yale and Caltech. Amherst, Harvard, Hopkins, Princeton, Harvey Mudd and Swarthmore follow.</p>

<p>Of course, though, the best premed school for you is the one you'll be happiest at and thrive most at for four years of undergrad!</p>

<p>You don't need much of a background to go to medical school. That's why the requirements are only 1 year of bio, chem, orgo, and physics.</p>

<p>oh really? I always thought that LAC's were focused mainly on humanities and stuff. </p>

<p>How is WashU's medical program, I hear it's like top top.</p>

<p>I'll be honest: I don't think there is too much of a difference between the "premed programs" of top universities. They have exceptional acceptance rates to med school because they have highly intelligent and driven students. I can probably teach any of the premed subjects to Harvard students and they would still outperform state school students on the MCAT.</p>

<p>I'm with you on this one, freek.</p>

<p>I've never understood why they insist on calling themselves "liberal arts" colleges when in reality they offer very complete programs. :)</p>

<p>posterx, can you cite your source and methodology?</p>

<p>yea, according to Brown University, they are the top 5 schools to send applicants to med school. You listed more than 5 w/o Brown in it, is Brown lying?</p>

<p>chen, if posterx is right - and he may not be - then he's probably doing something like considering the percentage of student body that is sent to US News' top 25 schools or something like that.</p>

<p>MIT's overall admissions percentage is 75%. Williams, Harvard, Duke, and - apparently, Brown - all boast percentages considerably higher than that, as (I'm sure) do many other schools.</p>

<p>You really can't look at the "admissions percentage" to med school in general, because there are many schools that discourage unqualified applicants from applying right after college, and others that don't count applicants that they consider to be unqualified. Because of that there are some schools that claim to have very high admissions rates to med school even when they, in fact, do not. My ranking is based on admissions to the very top medical schools, when adjusted for the percentage of students who are pre-med.</p>