hi everyone! i feel truly blessed to be able to choose bw these two awesome schools. I am most interested in biology, though i do have a great appreciation for english and the fine arts. No matter what i major in, i definitely want to do pre med.
Does anyone have experience/has heard about either of the two science and pre med programs? Also any information or advice on the general social/academic climate at the schools would be welcome. I want to go somewhere where i’ll be surrounded by fun, motivated, and intellectual community
Tufts also has an early assurance program for their med school. I’m not sure how difficult it is to get admitted though. I know this is all kind of vague information I found on the internet, but I hope it helps!
EDIT: You’ll probably get plenty of contrasting views, since this is in the Georgetown Forum. In the end, both are great choices!
Wow, I had not seen that Parchment website before. Fascinating. The small/non-representative sample size at the moment makes some of the results pretty goofy (schools moving 30+ spots in a single year and the like), but if and when the dataset got big enough, it would start to tell you some very interesting things about students’ choice behavior on a large scale.
Looking at their methodology, I don’t think it tells you much from which you can draw real conclusions, frankly. I would guess that Northwestern is popular with people who apply to UChicago, Vanderbilt is popular with people who apply to Duke, and Georgetown is popular with those who apply to the Ivies. Students get accepted into their first choice so they turn down the “lesser” school. On the other hand, Tufts, Notre Dame and BYU are schools that will have more applicants who make one of those schools as their first choice and then list some lesser school as their fallback. You can tell this by looking at the peer schools.
