<p>I'm a junior and have started looking at schools. I want to do Pre Med and i was wondering if you guys could help me pick some good pre med tracked(?) schools that are generous in grading and financial aid.</p>
<p>I'd really love to go to a top 20 school but any schools that fit the criteria above would be cool too. </p>
<p>3.5 UW, 2200 SAT, IB diploma track with extra online APs during the summer.</p>
<p>well for premed… JHU obviously. but that’s ridiculously cutthroat</p>
<p>There have been MANY premed threads in the last week or so. I’ll post the same quote I always do. </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.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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