<p>does anybody know the rank order for each university's particular med-school in Florida?
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<li>UF</li>
<li>UM</li>
<li>USF</li>
<li>FSU</li>
<li>UCF</li>
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<p>Just go visit UCF & USF, seriously.</p>
<p>You aren’t even in college yet and are worried about med school rankings??? Have fun in college, keep up your GPA, and cross your fingers that you get accepted to ANY one of them.</p>
<p>haha…gordon…I really do appreciate all your replies to my posts. BTW, I am visiting this upcoming week, ill let you know how it goes.</p>
<p>cross my fingers???..is it really that hard to get in these med-schools? Do I get any preference when applying to med school, if a apply to med-school from the university I graduated from?</p>
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<p>Its really that hard to get into ANY medical school…</p>
<p>Awesome, I know it’s tough choosing between schools. I was trying to make the same decision you are now 3yrs ago… To be honest I really didn’t like USF when I visited but I loved USF St. Petersburg so I went there. Now I’m at USF Tampa and it isn’t so bad, but our campus could use a little work (which it’s getting). I never made it around to visiting UCF, but I’ve heard plenty of good things about it. I doubt it will make a big difference academically which one you go to, just go to the one you prefer after visiting them both.</p>
<p>All U.S. allopathic medical schools are top notch. Rankings are even more useless for med schools than UG. That being said : </p>
<p>UCF is probably too new to have any real data. UF and UM are virtually tied in USNews research rank at 48 and 51. FSU is the only one ranked in primary care at 56, but primary care rankings are the goofiest of all.</p>
<p>I’d agree that it really doesn’t even matter. Shoot, I’d be happy if ANY U.S. Med. School took me, let alone what their rankings were! At that point, for me, it’d be visiting each one to seeing which one I’m going to enjoy going through hell in the most. </p>
<p>Just throwing that out there. Once you’re into MSIII and MSIV, I seriously doubt it’s going to matter whatsoever.</p>
<p>Most medical schools have an acceptance rate of somewhere between 3-10% of applicants. This doesn’t include the thousands of students who drop out of pre-med along the road. You might not get a preference at your home medical school, but you get the opportunity to build a relationship over four years, that’s where any preference is likely to come from.</p>
<p>It’s not hard to just google the US News rankings… Anyway, I think the last three are unranked, with FSU’s focus being on primary care and UCF having newly opened its medical school in the last year or so.</p>
<p>Just getting accepted to any U.S. allopathic med school is a feat. </p>
<p>FSU Med does not force anyone to enter primary care.</p>
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<li>Yes. It really is that hard to get into a U.S. allopathic med school.</li>
<li>Likely not any at all. Med schools are very independent and select whom they will.</li>
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<p>Some advantages to admission:</p>
<p>A. Have some real life experience and be mature before you apply to med school.
B. You need at least a 3.6 GPA overall and at least in the core required courses.
C. Better undergrad schools tend to have more successful med applicants.
D. A 30 on the MCAT is likely a minimum score in general.
E. Being elected to Phi Beta Kappa in your undergrad school helps.</p>
<p>thank you guys!..by the way…after visitng the both of the campuses…I decided to attend USF. I realized USF is much better in the health-related field…:)</p>
<p>Florida has too many medical colleges now. It would have made more sense and been more efficient and cost effective enlarging the enrollments at existing medical colleges in Florida instead of opening all the new, costly and unnecessary medical colleges. More residency slots in Florida would make more sense than more colleges of medicine.</p>
<p>[Florida</a> medical schools, expanding enrollments, get Legislative backing - St. Petersburg Times](<a href=“http://www.tampabay.com/news/aging/medicare/florida-medical-schools-expanding-enrollments-get-legislative-backing/1089248]Florida”>http://www.tampabay.com/news/aging/medicare/florida-medical-schools-expanding-enrollments-get-legislative-backing/1089248)</p>
<p>Hey</p>
<p>First off You made the right choice with USF over UCF but I am biased as I got graduated from USF like last week. Anyways I am starting Med School at USF on Aug 2 so if you have any questions, I’d be more than happy to help.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>Hey, Baker 017!</p>
<p>Yeah, I know I did, I completely fell in love with the atmoshphere and health-related opportunities USF offered me. Actually I want to be exactly where you are in 4 years, ready to enter med-school. So if you don’t mind, I got a couple of questions:</p>
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<li><p>Does USF medical school give any preference to their own undergraduates students when applying to med-school?</p></li>
<li><p>Any advice on my path to med-school???..any plan to follow?..any programs I should know about?..any opportunities I should be aware of?..any recommendations?..any teacher recommendations?</p></li>
<li><p>I’m having a real hard time deciding in what to major. I know that I don’t need to major in science to be eligible for med-school, but I want to major in science, since it has always been a subject I enjoyed and was interested in. However, I’m worried that if I don’t get into med-school, I am going to be stuck with a science degree with very few job prospects, which usually involve research, which I don’t mind, but I am more interested in primary care. I don’t want to end up like a co-worker of mines, who graduated from UF(University of Florida) with a science major, and was not able to find a job, and he is now working in the same restaurant I am working at. So, what about vocational careers as a good back up plan?..such as nursing, occupational therapy(since I like primary care careers) which make a good salary, and job prospects seem to keep increasing in these areas?. Unfortunately, I was told vocational careers are looked down by med-schools???(is this true??),then it would not make sense, since my number one goal no matter what is to make it to med-school. Any suggestion from own or friends/family experience on which science major has good salary and job prospects? What did you major in? Did you minor in something?</p></li>
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<li>Check this link to a college confidential discussion based on my question from number #3…it gets really interesting…see if you can read it all, especially the second page where Ky-anh Tran and bluedevilmike go back and forth arguing pretty much about what I am concerned about. </li>
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214387-what-should-premed-major.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214387-what-should-premed-major.html</a></p>
<p>----Thank you for your time Baker017</p>