what colledges/ universities are the best for undergraduate studies in pre-medicine?

[Bem3393]

<p>I want to be a nuerosurgeon</p>

<p>any suggestion?</p>

<p>i'm in 10th grade</p>

[rjkofnovi]

<p>Sanjay Gupta, the probable next attorney general of the United States went to Michigan as an undergraduate. He went to Michigan for medical school. He had his residency in neurosurgery at the University of Michigan. So I suggest Harvard and then Michigan a close second.</p>

[Bem3393]

<p>i really want to get into harvard but i thought it wasn’t the best choice considering my career choice</p>

[rjkofnovi]

<p>This is the honest truth. I know someone whose son went to Harvard UG and from there he went to Harvard Medical. He also became a neurosurgeon. Harvard is still Harvard. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.</p>

[IBclass06]

<p>For the 6582324th time, the same answer to the same question.</p>

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@mikemac

Looking for a school that will “get you into med school” is fruitless. As Amherst says in its excellent premed guide online,

Amherst College has no magic touch that automatically elevates a student’s chances of entering medical school simply by virtue of the student’s coming to Amherst; no college or university has that kind of magic touch. What does elevate a student’s chances is to go to an institution (1) that energizes and challenges that particular student academically, while providing good teaching and academic support so the student can meet the challenge satisfactorily; and (2) that provides opportunities for accomplishment and leadership in extracurricular areas. Of course the student must take advantage of these educational and extracurricular opportunities - in the end it’s the student’s accomplishments that count, not the name of the institution.
[Amherst</a> College Premedical Guide](<a href=“http://www3.amherst.edu/~sageorge/guide1.html]Amherst”>Amherst College Guide for Premedical Students)

Looking at acceptance rates is similarly misleading. At top 25 schools they have high rates – but look at what they were starting with!! You get into a top school, you’re smart enough to end up in the top 1/3 of med school applicants and hence get in somewhere. More disturbing are high rates at places you’ve never heard of. Are they turning lead into gold? Nope. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find that med schools require a “committee letter” from any school that supplies it (generally most of them except large publics). To get the eye-catching rate, the schools simply tell weaker students the letter is going to say “recommended with reservations” or “not recommended”. If you’re smart enough to think of med school, you’re smart enough to know that with those letters you are simply wasting time & money by applying.</p>

<p>In sum, the main thing that’s going to get you into med school is you. Read the advice above from Amherst, read thru their guide, and you’ll be better prepared than 75% of the people out there.

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[kwu]

<p>Amherst, of course.</p>

<p>Ha, just kidding.</p>

<p>A great school where you’ll earn high grades.</p>

[UCBChemEGrad]

<p>MIT
Caltech
Berkeley</p>

[IBclass06]

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MIT
Caltech
Berkeley

Ah, yes. How could I forget to include the universities best known for grade inflation! :p</p>

[Student92]

<p>Med school is straight numbers, where you go is practically nil. A machine is going to number crunch you before any human sees your application. Any school where you can succeed with a great GPA, and resources for some community service and hospital oriented programs is your best bet.</p>

[Penn2013]

<p>Penn State</p>

[Caillebotte]

<p>The correct answer is: whichever school you’ll enjoy studying at for 4 years…but, in terms of sheer quantity, I believe Cornell produces more M.D.s than any other undergrad in the nation.</p>

[molliegym]

<p>IBClass06- you’re joking, right?</p>

[nooob]

<p>Nobody has mentioned Johns Hopkins University yet. Washington University in st. louis is also a wonderful place. Both also have TOP med schools.</p>

[IBclass06]

<p>molliegym, I was indeed kidding. As was UCBChemEGrad.</p>

<p>UCBChemEGrad’s take on pre-med at Berkeley:

Haha. I used to attend Berkeley. I graduated in 2000. Faculty is fantastic. You are with very high caliber students so the academic competition can be too intense for some. This is especially true for pre-med…Which, come to think of it is what you’re interested in.</p>

<p>I mean, I had an organic chemistry final where some idiot pulled the fire alarm after he was done either because he aced the test and didnt want to allow others to finish, or bombed it…LOL. They actually have a policy with fire alarms during finals…at least when I was there.

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<p>Ben Golub’s take on pre-med at Caltech:

Don’t go to Caltech if your goal is to be a premed unless you have a really excellent reason for doing so. Caltech is likely to make your GPA a few tenths lower than it would have been elsewhere, and while top PhD programs know this, med school admissions still seem to be run by a little pigeon that thinks a 3.8 or whatever is a magical number that means the same thing everywhere.</p>

<p>there are on average only about 10 premeds per class at Caltech (I would certainly not advise any but the very smartest premeds to consider Caltech.)

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<p>;)</p>

[RedTapePatrol]

<p>If you really wanna become a doctor, go to a school where you’ll be happy both socially and academically and can reasonably get good grades. You need enough time off to volunteer at hospitals, med schools wanna see GPA, MCAT scores and experience related to the discipline.</p>