<p>Hello I am currently a student at UVM in the school of Engineering. I am taking Biology 001, Chemistry 031, Math 021 (calculus I) and Anthropology 021. I am going to be applying to Arts and sciences In either Chemistry or Bio doing Pre-Med. I am looking for a more prestigious school that has a better acceptance rate to med school. My high school gap was a 3.6 and SAT 1770 but my senior grades were a dramatic improvement over junior year and i was taking a hard course load. </p>
<p>1) Can anyone recommend some good schools? (prefer a city setting)
2) I am assuming my college GPA will be a 3.7 or higher from freshmen year.
3) Should I submit my high school grades since my GPA was very good both semesters 3.8 1st and 3.9 second semester. (2 AP 2 honors and 2 regular courses.)</p>
<p>You should visit the PreMed Topics subforum, the general consensus is that except for a relatively small handful of colleges (perhaps 10-12), prestige is not a substantial factor in Med school admissions. Much more important are your gpa and MCAT scores. And if you are accepted at a more selective college, a consideration should be how your grades will be in a tougher cohort.</p>
<p>One more thing you will find on the PreMed forum is that med school acceptance rate is a very poor indicator as different schools calculate this metric differently.</p>
<p>Rather than changing schools, you might consider changing majors as a difficult major like engineering does not help admissions as much as a high gpa. </p>
<p>Remember, when applying for a soph transfer, colleges will only see your HS transcript (yes, it is required), test scores and 1 qt/sem of college, so more weight will be on your HS record.</p>
<p>I was under the understanding that if you have 30+ credits you don’t need to submit your high school grades? Is that only if 30 Credits are completed?</p>
<p>Give me some states you want go to and I’ll throw some schools in cities, I just got done looking for schools myself based them off of accessibility to research, closeness to a city(my favorite NYC lol), and prestige with taking into account that I need a easier school than lets say UCLA to flourish.</p>
<p>If you have inexpensive in-state tuition at the school you are at now, you may want to stay there to minimize debt. Medical school is expensive, so you do not want to drag too much undergraduate debt along. And if, like most pre-meds, you do not get into any medical school and graduate with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry or biology, you will find job and career prospects to be poor, so you do not want to have a lot of debt in that case either.</p>
<p>Note that it is not required to major in chemistry or biology to do pre-med.</p>
<p>Lol this guy^ I swear he just copies and pastes. (not trying to disrespect you ucb just trying to put some humor into it )</p>
<p>Sorry super tired dont have time to properly give you a list but here’s how I did it looked at UScollegenews’ rankings for UG put the states in the search bar searched then sorted based on national rank, if it was 100 and up(100-25)and had a good science program near a city I put it on the list.(apologies for the massive space it’s the iPhone app)</p>
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