Urgent Question: Hopkins Vs. Rutgers

<p>Hey--</p>

<p>We have good pre-med advising here. There is a whole office devoted to advising pre-med students, with advisors, tons of information, and other services. There's also AMSA, the pre-med club, which is actually surprisingly active and brings interesting speakers to campus.</p>

<p>Anyway, if you take advantage of what's offered here, it's definitely possible to go to a good med school-- RU grads have gone to some of the best in the past (harvard, stanford, etc.)</p>

<p>It should be possible to do both an economics major and neuroscience major while you're here. Do you have any AP science credit? This will give you more room to double major, but if you don't, it's probably still possible. Personally, I'm double majoring in Molecular Bio and Biochemsitry (that's 1 major) and Philosophy, though I came in with a lottt of AP credit. However, I still have time to take other classes outside of my majors, so if you are serious about double majoring, you will probably be able to. I would advise you to contact an honors dean and talk about your situation-- that's what I did last year when I was trying to decide. She'll also be more capable of answering your question on double majoring.</p>

<p>Some websites that might be useful:
<a href="http://rchonors.rutgers.edu/contact.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://rchonors.rutgers.edu/contact.htm&lt;/a> Honors Contact info
<a href="http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/%7Ehpo/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~hpo/&lt;/a> Pre med advising office
<a href="http://economics.rutgers.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://economics.rutgers.edu&lt;/a> Econ Dept
<a href="http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/%7Ecbn/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~cbn/&lt;/a> Cell bio and neurosci dept</p>

<p>Good luck with Rutgers. Im sure you will get alot of respect when you add in Honors after STD capital of the world.</p>

<p>that's low man. I mean, HONORS housing usually is not infested with STDs and STDs is a problem that is common in America. This whole Rutgers STD thing (whether it is true or not) shouldn't be a problem as long you don't sleep with on them lol</p>

<p>Wow that is pretty low, no need to bash schools/locations here!</p>

<p>so chowdhury, what are your Hopkins pros.</p>

<p>supermtt37 is there some kind of site that has statistics on how many students from the honors program get into top grad school and the sort?</p>

<p>also about how many students are there in the honors program and how many are doing pre-med. thanks a bunch</p>

<p>I don't know any site with those statistics. I know there was an honors program brochure they sent out to us stating what schools recent grads had gotten into. (Maybe you can find it, they sent it to me w/ my acceptance.)</p>

<p>In any case, you can find out that info by talking to a dean (I don't have it at hand.)</p>

<p>There are ~200 Rutgers College students in the honors program every year. It is a good enough size so that it definitely has its own community, but isnt too big so that it's not personal enough.</p>

<p>I don't know how many are doing pre=med out of the honors program, but a very uneducated guess would be around a quarter to a third. It may be higher, who knows. The best students are those that tend to aim for medical or law school (or grad school... however at RU, i think more people tend to go for med/law compared to private schools because they came here so that they will be able to pay those bills down the road.)</p>

<p>hey supermtt,
do you feel as if oyu missed out on anything by choosing rutgers, i am deciding between there brown and JHU for physics.</p>

<p>i've never heard anything about physics at rutgers and brown but i have heard about APL at JHU, it's basically up there with Lincoln lab and JPL
but of course that's graduate school...physics as an undergrad might not be as differentiated</p>

<p>I just sent in deposit to Rutgers.</p>

<p>Thanks for the great info Super. I think I've made a wise choice in correalation to my future career plans and what not.... plus I can pretty much buy whatever I want with all that extra money left over...and since I have full ride...no work study for me :)</p>

<p>hehe yeah merudh you definitely made the right decision
it's hard to argue against $200K</p>

<p>Merudh, that's awesome! I'll see you next year if you end up living in Brett (the honors dorm on College Ave.)</p>

<p>VaporPressure-- No, I don't think I missed out on anything. I have friends at much more "prestigious" colleges and I don't think they're getting anything better. I was originally interested in places like Princeton, Columbia, etc. but now I really love Rutgers's size. It's so great to be at a place with so much going on!</p>

<p>that's awesome....actually though I'm thinking of McCo...on Busch Campus...</p>

<p>...you have any input on that?</p>

<p>Also, hows that placement testing thing. Do Honors program kids have to take it?</p>

<p>ummmm may I suggest moving this to the Rutgers forum....
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=351%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=351&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>btw....before this thing gets moved...I would like to say that that sign I saw on Hopkins campus about Hopkins losing 10% of their kids because of fin. aid just came true.</p>

<p>Hopkins was my dream school ever since i can remember, and now that I got in....it kinda sucks I can't go because of fin. aid. Maybe in future years they should think about this.</p>

<p>Merudh--</p>

<p>If you'd rather live on Busch, McCormick's a really cool/nice dorm. I decided to live in Brett because I like the life on College Ave, though I was debating living on Busch a year ago because I'm a science major.</p>

<p>oh alright...yeah I'll try it our freshman year and see how it goes. You can always change the year after right?</p>

<p>btw what's your name?</p>

<p>I also found out that some other kid with a similar Hopkins/ Rutgers dillema is going to Rutgers right now (freshman(...last name Islam....do you know him? He's doing pre-med through Honors Program.</p>

<p>not me/don't know him... and it's probably a bad idea to give out names on an internet forum... sorry!</p>

<p>REPEAT...
I suggest moving this to the Rutgers forum....
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com...splay.php?f=351%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com...splay.php?f=351&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents regarding the post saying "You'll easily be able to pay off $200,000 when you're a doctor!", because that's basically the thought I had when I was making my college decision. It's an unjaded, optimistic view to have and I was also of the opinion that "It's just money, I shouldn't be making the decision on where to spend 4 years of my life based on something as dumb as money". These views have some merit, but I just wanted to give the perspective as a current college sophomore (almost junior) 2 years later. </p>

<p>Yes, it's just money. However, taking out immense loans isn't always the best idea. If I decided I didn't want to go into medicine, and instead wanted to pursue something like acting (which I discovered in college), having close to $90,000 in loans is going to severly hurt me. It's going to take a LONG TIME to pay back. I'm currently at JHU, and I completely love it. The opportunities I'm getting here are amazing. You have to realize though, that things change. You may go into college convinced you want to be a doctor, and then you find something else you love even more and want to pursue that. I know my one friend who came in as pre-med and realized she loved her Writing Seminars classes more, so that's what she is now. </p>

<p>Sure, in the end, money is money. But just realize how having such a large debt load is going to be with you for a while. A pretty long while. These numbers seem unreal to you, but you have to think exactly how much money that is. $1,000...say you pay that off in 3 months. Now multiply that by 200. That's 50 years. And while you will probably eventually pay it off (hopefully before you're 70), it may limit what you do in the future for a while. New car? Splurging on a big screen TV? Not with a ton of student loans that that money has to go towards. </p>

<p>This is a really individualized decision that you really should make by talking a lot with your parents, and maybe a financial advisor (my family had an accountant person that we worked out our loan stuff with). Don't let random people on CC make this decision for you. </p>

<p>Just stuff to think about.</p>