<p>What are the top pre-med schools in the country? Each list i look at presents it in a different order. Which one would you guys say has the best reputation?</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s hard to rank schools by pre-med because it’s hard to measure. A candidate can be competitive for med school whether they’re from a state school or a top ivy. It’s about being able to use resources and putting in the effort. In general thought, for pre-med, with gpa being such an important factor in med school admissions, one would want to go to a school with grade inflation and avoid ones with grade deflation. For example, of the top schools, schools like MIT, Cornell, and Princeton have grade deflation policies which make it tougher to maintain a competitive gpa for med school admissions. On the other hand, schools like Harvard, Brown, Duke, and Dartmouth are “easier” to maintain a high gpa and therefore have good success with pre-med. I would put schools like Columbia and Penn between the two groups in terms of difficulty. Schools like JHU are also solid.</p>
<p>Again though, it’s up to the individual so it’s hard to give a ranking. Though med schools will give some weight to where someone attended for undergrad, it’s not nearly as much of a factor as gpa, MCATs, ECs, etc. One could be more successful coming out of a state school than a top school. It’s all about effort.</p>
<p>Is your goal to get into med school? Many of the schools with high rankings are very selective about which students get endorsed (ie, supported by your undergraduate college) for med school, some actively discourage less competitive applicants from even applying to med school, and many have tremendously competitive core pre-med classes that make it difficult to earn a high gpa which is pretty much essential for good med school chances. </p>
<p>The fundamental reality is that a strong u.g. gpa in overall coursework and the med school prereqs, high mcat score, and plenty of relevant work or volunteer experience will trump any of these schools if you get a mediocre pre-req gpa. </p>
<p>Additionally, more than half of the students who think they’re going to go into medicine either change their minds or have their minds changed via not-strong-enough grades, so it is important to have a plan B and a major you like in and of itself, whether that is biochem or art history. </p>
<p>I’ve never seen a ranking that shows which undergraduate schools have the highest percentage of undergraduate students who actually get into med school based on the number who start college with that intention. </p>
<p>Picking a college that you like, and can afford, and where you are very likely to be able to get strong grades in your premed courses is your best bet. (And remember, pretty much everyone else going to Johns Hopkins for premed is also going there with pretty terrific stats that might be just like yours, and yet, year in and year out, lots of their students who wanted to go to med school originally have to make different choices.)</p>
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<p>If you do a search on ‘pre-med’ on CC you will see dozens of threads on this topic.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your responses!</p>
<p>I told you apunia !!!</p>
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