Hello all,
I am a rising junior and I am interested in the human body and hence my interest for physiology. So I guess I want to go in the medical field. Which colleges have great pre-med programs that also have good financial aid? See, I don’t live in a wealthy family that can afford to pay 50k a year, so I would need some help in order to attend a college.
What’s your guys’ two cents on this?
Home State? Actual number that your family can afford? Large/Small school? Urban/Rural? Private/Public? How much financial aid do you need? What are your current Stats? Pre-med is not a major, so what do you plan to major in to apply to medical school?
This list, available online, is good for highlighting a few schools that seem to have proven track records of furthering the goals of their pre-med students: “The Experts’ Choice: Colleges With Great Pre-med Programs.” Some, maybe even most, of these colleges offer excellent financial aid.
The “pre-med” part is the least of it. You can get into med school- even top med schools from pretty much any college. D1s orthopedic surgeon - one of the top 10 in the US - went to a college that I had never even heard of, b/c it was affordable- then went to UPenn for med school. You want the most rigorous school that you can afford without any debt- so your state college or a private that meets need / gives generous merit to students with your qualifications.
Seriously, all accredited US colleges offer the courses that you need to get into medical school.
There’s really no such thing as a “premed program”. Premed isn’t like nursing, engineering or accounting where schools truly have “programs” that can be considered weak or strong.
Being premed is simply a goal to a career. That means taking the premed prereq courses, which are the SAME as the classes that bio, chem, math, and engineering students are taking. Nothing unique for “premeds”…there’s nothing “medical” about them.
Is your family low income?
Or, is your family middle income? if so, how much WILL they pay each year?
what is your home state?
What are your stats?
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GPA: 4.0 unweighted & 4.58 weighted (class #1 rank out of 567)
SAT: none
ACT: none (practice test: 27 composite, 25 English, 28 Math, 28 Reading, 29 Science) (any recommendations as to how I can improve my ACT score? I desperately need to do well to make up for my meager EC. lol)
SAT II: none
AP: (my school doesn’t offer AP classes until junior year, therefore none so far)
what would my chances of being accepted to any of the Ivies be?
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Why would ANYONE with a good-but-not-top ACT score even WANT to go to an ivy as a premed?
What do you think would happen to you in the premed prereqs when all of your classmates are stronger students than you are? Who do you think would end up with the A’s? You? Not likely.
Thanks for the input.