Hello everyone!
I am a senior in high school. I am considering pursuing premed schools. I love private schools in urban area. The school should be next to a hospital where I can volunteer. I also want a school which has decent (not toooooooo hard) grading system since GPA IS REEALLLY IMPORTANT!!!
Thank you so much.
Medical schools know what colleges have grade inflation and will discount that in the evaluation process.
Hi! What I am trying to ask is not inflated and deflated schools. I asked what schools have decent (not too easy and not too hard) grading system.
You need to post all your stats, ecs and desired school profile (size, cost and area) to get a meaningful recommendation. More importantly, how much your parents can afford.
Also for med school, are you international students ? If not, which state?
Although Goldilocks tells a tale of wanting porridge that’s not to hot or not too cold, but just right, there is no published list of schools that report their grading systems that are not too easy and not too hard. Premed is hard everywhere as evidenced by most students who start as premeds change their minds along the way and never even apply, and of those that apply 60% fail to start at any med school. Whether a school’s grading system is not too hot or not too cold is in the eye of the beholder and will be based on your efforts as a student and who your prof is, not the school. Consider schools where you think you will fit in as if you’re happy, you’re more likely to do well GPA wise. (There will probably be many schools that provide a fit and offer the opportunities and resources that you need to be a competitive med school applicant. Consider colleges where you can graduate with as little debt as possible as most med students borrow their way through med school and it is expensive. There are other ways to volunteer besides a hospital. Have a plan B should you change your mind. Most importantly enjoin your senior year in hs. Good luck.
Thank you for giving a mindful advice!
From your other post, you asked about Northwestern and Rice. NW is hard in pre-med and Rice is the better place. UChicago is super hard in pre-med (artloversplus can tell you that). In Boston area, Northeastern seems to have good pre-med GPA (I know someone with 3.9 in health science major applying this cycle) while BU (or Tufts?) is hard.
Btw, biomed engineering is NOT a good plan B for pre-med. In general, any engineering major is ususlly the GPA killer with not much room in curriculum to fit in pre-med classes.
It is all relevant, there is no such thing as a “hard” or “easy” school for a particular student. It all depends on individuals. For those 4.0 SAT 1600 and Winner of Science Olympian and recruited athletes, nothing is hard, including med school. Not in NWU, UofC, BU or Tufts and there are plenty of them from those schools become top physicians and admitted into HYS SOM. Its the boarder line students in those schools that are struggling and call the program hard.
Take the most discussed topic on the Parents forum, Malala, the Nobel Peace award winner for example, do you think if she came to any of the “hard” UG discussed here, will there a problem for her to get into a med school afterwards?
The best advise I give to a premed is to attend a school where you are top 25% of of the admitted freshman, top 10% would even better. If that is HYPSM, more power to you.