My sister is hoping to potentially do a premed or prevet track at Seattle, and from what I have read on various forums, Seattle seems to be like a very cut throat competitive place where the averages for weed out classes are set to 2.6-2.8. This is all fine and dandy, I expect competition, but the red flag that stood out to me is that it sounds like students don’t really help each other. They seem to be focused on competing against one another, even sabotaging each other? It does not sound like a very friendly environment at all.
Of course, I understand this is a few people’s responses in a anonymous online forum out of the thousands of students at UW, so this is a very small sample size. I also understand that premed and prevet are extremely competitive, and you can expect to see competition anywhere. But having gone to a very large school similar to UW Seattle for undergrad, and having now done my Masters at a highly ranked private school, I can say that despite all the competition, students helped each other at both places. And I can’t stress enough how much better my time was at these schools because students were willing to work together.
Can anyone shed some light on whether doing premed or prevet at UW is actually this cut throat? (Note, I did engineering majors, so I don’t know anything about premed or prevet students in general, but I’ve heard they are more cut throat everywhere, so maybe it’s not just UW).