<p>Hello, </p>
<p>I want to find universities that are known for their pre-med strength and commendable advising but are for a student with stats like me.</p>
<p>6 AP, rest honors.
3.9 gpa un-weighted </p>
<p>I have heard of only one school that fits the bill somewhat. (Loyola University Chicago)</p>
<p>I am looking for a school that is located in an urban environment but also has a campus. I prefer the east coast. I will most likely not receive financial aid so I am looking for a school that costs 45,000 or less including room and board.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Oh and 1860 SAT. Forgot in original post.</p>
<p>Any of the top 100-200 universities in the US News and World report are sufficient.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input! I want to go to a place where pre med is a significant percentage of students that attend the institution. My thinking here might be faulted. I am assuming it is a better school for pre med by how many students are part of the pre med program. </p>
<p>Any other insight is greatly appreciated</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>As long a good school has a decent number of pre-meds and has good advising and does committee letters…that’s good enough. </p>
<p>A significant % of pre-meds would be odd. Don’t know of a school (maybe Creighton) where a high number are premed. </p>
<p>A good number of STEM majors usually suggests strong bio, chem, math and physics classes.</p>
<p>There are no “pre med class”. The classes are regular classes that science and eng’g majors take…bio, chem, Ochem, and math. As long as those are fine, you’re good.</p>
<p>Your budget kind of limits your choices to publics and OOS publics. I recommend not spending too much since med school is expensive.</p>
<p>I would just go to a prestigious school. You could maybe do some research on which schools have better acceptance rates. However, barring a few pre-med factories like Johns Hopkins, though, I don’t think there’s much point to going somewhere specifically for a pre med rep. Heck, I don’t even think Hopkins is worth it (seriously… why would anyone want to go there).<br>
Go to a good school with solid academics and a good reputation, work your butt off, and get involved in activities. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
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John</p>
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<p>Hopkins, Emory, Rochester, WashU, Cal-Berkeley, to name just a few. The typical undergraduate college may have ~25% Arts & Sciences Frosh who indicate prehealth. At the others like The Hop, that number approaches a third!</p>
<p>Bucknell University-good class size overall 10:1 teaching ratio in most classes;excellence of rigor and strength in top majors such as Bio; Cell Bio; Chem; Neuro; Animal Behavior-courses will challenge and prepare you to be a the top of your game; with excellent opportunities to perform research on/off campus {year round}{with great alum network}; excellent Pre Med advising with opportunities to shadow/“externship” doctors and other health professionals during the winter of sophomore year;strong alum support in the health sciences-as Bucknell invites alumni doctors back {frequently} to talk with Pre-Health/Med Bucknellians about their practice/s and research; ability to secure internships in health care activities through Bucknell alums; superior Career Development Center (for help with writing PS, secondaries, mock interview training, etc;) ability to work on various service health related activities close to school;ability to demonstrate leadership in many school activities offered; a school noted for a high placement of students in many types of graduate programs in many majors; ability to garner scholarship/s grants as an undergrad; supportive faculty-no TAs;supportive classmates-no gunner/cut throat types;cooperative atmosphere with Pre Meds; great overall liberal arts education; (I have a bias as a 2011 grad taking a gap year-accepted to med school for August, 2012</p>
<p>With an 1860 SAT, I don’t think schools like JHU, Emory, WashU, etc, are possible…and they’re over the student’s budget of $45k and he won’t qualify for aid.</p>
<p>This student needs reasonable choices that not only will he be likely accepted, but his classmates in his pre-med pre-reqs (who will be STEM majors) won’t mostly all be SAT 2200+ students.</p>
<p>I’m glad aberdeen liked Bucknell. (Both DH and I attended BU and have a quite different opinion…) But Bucknell’s COA is well over $55K/year–and thus out of range of the OP’s budget. His stats are unlikely to get him any merit aid there. Plus BU is in the boonies…</p>
<p>D2 is @ URoch–40% of her freshman class called themselves pre-meds. (Of course, now that she’s a senior, there are much fewer… Like maybe 100-120 who will apply either this cycle or in the next 2 years.) Pretty campus and the hospital + med school is right across the street from main campus. But $56K COA and OP’s stats too low for merit.</p>
<p>D1 attended the state flagship U (full tuition scholarship! but ranked at USN #181) and she managed to get into med school just fine. She has college classmates in places like JHU and WashU med schools.</p>
<p>How about something like a Franklin & Marshall (although it is not in an urban area)</p>
<p>University of Pitt is in an urban area and seems to prepare pre-med kids well.</p>
<p>UAB is urban…high ranking med school in a number of specialites. S2 has been doing research there since first semester freshman year. 6 hospitals surround the campus, lots of opportunity for shadowing etc…good premed advising, 17:1 student teacher ratio. will work for your stats…also honors program (sci/tech) is really good.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the input! I will most definitely look into Pitt.</p>
<p>If I were to choose again, I’d choose a school with a strong medical school attached–it usually means an easier access to biomed research and shadowing. My LAC was too far removed to have accurate pre-med advising, and there was no biomed research available (and very little shadowing). I would also recommend places like UPitt and UMich.</p>
<p>It’s a tough call. The downsides with a Uni (with med school), is large classes, TA’s, harder to meet professors to obtain recs, etc. Not wanting to make this a LAC-Uni debate, but just point out that the grass is always greener… :D</p>
<p>How is the surrounding area of Pitt? Since Pittsburgh is/was known as an industrial powerhouse, I tend to visualize the city with nothing to do for fun/eat.</p>
<p>bluebayou–fair enough, but unless you’re at a top 10 LAC its probably not worth it (imo)</p>
<p>Pitt is in a wonderful 'hood. Well worth a look.</p>