Guys I need your advice!
Putting aside cost, which school has better premed opportunities/academics? I’m hoping to get into a top school (Stanford, Yale, etc) for medical school. I understand it’s the individual that makes the outcome but I was wondering which school you guys think has the strongest premed program. Also, I got into the honors colleges for both schools if that helps.
As far as med school, you can get into med school from either one of them. According to the AAMC, the schools produced the following number of applicants to med school in 2015.
Florida: 802
Miami: 373
https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/86042/factstablea2.html
Keep in mind that UM is a much smaller school.
The average rate of med school acceptance is 40%, and I would expect that these schools are probably near the national average, and I would suspect that opportunities are likely equal at both.
If you are interested in how UF or UM graduates do at schools like Yale or Stanford, you can do a websearch for med school admissions. Here is Yales class (starts on page 211). It is probably too small of a sample size to mean anything, but out of around 100 students, it looks like there were two UM grads and two UF grads in the 2015 class of MDs at Yale.
http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/htmlfiles/med/school-of-medicine-2015-2016.pdf
However, the vast majority of students at Yale attended other Ivies or other top 20 ranked schools like Johns Hopkins, and most successful med school applicants from schools like UF or UM likely attended in-state med schools. Unless you have a strong preference for one over the other, I would go with the least expensive option. Good luck!
@Zinhead Considering the fact that your profile pic is the gator, would you suggest choosing UF over UM?
@miamelle126 - If it were my kid, I would strongly suggest UF because I would hate to be writing a check to the University of Miami a couple of times a year. However, on these boards, I try to stay as impartial as possible.
Both UM and UF will offer you roughly equal opportunities in the State of Florida for med school and, if you decide not to go to med school, they will offer you the best educations in the state for whatever alternative career you choose. Which you go to would be personal or financial preference.