UM Honors LSA for Pre-Meds?

Most of the threads I found only discussed Honors LSA in terms of South Quad benefits and the ability to take Honors courses. But how beneficial is Honors for pre-med? Are there any distinct opportunities that only Honor students have?

I applied for honors yesterday and I’m doing premed I heard my friends who r doing premed said honors is not worth it because the classes r a lot harder and they could kill your gpa even more but some of them just do it first year to live on South quad. honors med school acceptance rate is 80% compared to 56% university but that’s prob just because only like 100 honors ppl apply to med school which is a lot smaller number also the senior thesis can be tough to do with med school admissions

Direct benefits? Not really. Honors isn’t any more geared towards pre-meds as it is to History of Art majors. The increased acceptance rate in Honors is due to the type of people in Honors, not really the opportunities that Honors provides for those students.

@Eeeee127 So any particular reason you still applied?

@crabcakes375 idk South quad benefits I guess and it was free

Honors is just if you want the extra challenge. IMO, it won’t help you get into med school or anywhere else.

Honors will look better on your Med school app. The acceptance rate for honors is about 80% and university wide is about 50%.

Its 56% university wide honors has higher acceptance rate because the ppl who stick with honors while applying to med school work a lot harder also only like 100 people apply to med school from honors while 600 apply from the regular university so smaller number for honors means higher percentage

I heard med schools don’t care about honors it’s your gpa that’s the most important honors is good if u want to learn more in depth and do an honors senior thesis but that will be tough during med school app time

Guitar321, a large reason for the 56% university-wide medical school acceptance rate is a result of a large number of students applying to medical school who will graduate from Michigan with 2.0-3.2 GPAs. The placement rate for those is well under 20%, but you aren’t going to have many Honors students with GPAs in that range among them. The quality of the Honors students is very high. Most of them will have GPAs over 3.5, and the placement for 3.5 + students (honors or not) into medical school, is much higher than 56%.

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@guitar321 This isn’t like applying to college where being in “X” is considered impressive. Especially considering admittance to our underclassman Honors Program is based off high school performance as opposed to university performance. Honors will not necessarily make you look any better than the next applicant. They take a holistic review of your application and look for game changers, like have you been abroad, what type of volunteering did you do, did you do research, etc. They will see that you were in Honors, but I highly doubt any medical school reviewer is going to sit there and be swayed to accept you or not just based off the fact that you were in Honors.

^being in honors no, graduating with honors yes. And no, you don’t need to be in the Honors Program to graduate with honors.

Med school admissions are not a holistic process. I have many friends and family friends who have recently started or applied to med school. If you don’t have the gpa and mcat score, you have no chance regardless of how good your other stuff looks since med school rankings are based primarily on numbers.

but do med schools take into account grade inflation at harvard and grade deflation at umich?

No. Tht’s why the recommendation is always to go to a solid college where you’d have a good chance of getting top grades—and not to go to a reach college where you’d encounter more competition for top grades.

The honors program is not a super competitive type thing at UM. It’s not that hard to get accepted. My kid said it was extra work that interfered with other things, and for him, not with the housing perk.

But that’s not fair because there’s grade inflation at harvard and Stanford and it’s easier to get good grades there than at umich they have the school name and the high gpa backing them @brantly so basically everyone should go to harvard and Stanford because of the name and the grade inflation for premed

“Everyone should go to Stanford and Harvard” - the ultimate statement of easier said than done.

many people at umich would be able to succeed at harvard and stanford and get a high gpa but harvard and stanford don’t have enough spots for them. i heard ppl at northwestern take summer classes at harvard just so they can get an a. that’s how much grade inflation there is.