<p>University of Notre Dame
UNC- Chapel Hill
University of Rochester
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Williams College</p>
<p>Which of there do you think is best for pre med, considering course difficulty(GPA), med school acceptances, environment. I am leaning to Notre Dame but would like to know different people's opinions.Thanks to all who respond.</p>
<p>I'll add:</p>
<p>Cornell
Johns Hopkins (obviously)
WashU</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply, sorry maybe I did not express the question right. From that list which is the best for premed considering grade deflation, environment and med school acceptance rate?</p>
<p>It really depends on the fit. Having hands on medical research might be easier for Rochester. It has medical facilities around the campus. I found this on the Stanford medical school website and it just shows you that there really isn't a "best" pre-med school. <a href="http://med.stanford.edu/md/admissions/class_profiles.html%5B/url%5D">http://med.stanford.edu/md/admissions/class_profiles.html</a></p>
<p>i'll add that none of your schools on the list will be easy. So you won't really feel the "grade inflation", since you'll be working your butts off with or without grade inflation. Even for HYPS, which many people say it has grade inlfation, students work their butts off to get an A-. I know that Rochester and the LACs you mentioned give you the grade that you deserve. Bigger schools like NOtre Dame and UNC might be a bit competitive and have less personal attention.</p>
<p>Thannks for your opinion betterday55. Final question to which would you go if it was you making the decision(choose one)?</p>
<p>University of Notre Dame: Rules are kinda strict about alchohol and i'm not really religious at all. Plus it's in the middle of nowhere.<br>
UNC- Chapel Hill: Great basketball team, i'm a huge bball fan and player, great weather, great college town, lots of social life. Down hills: May have to deal with students with less qualification, since it's a state school. Large intro classes, for me i feel like I want to have great solid intro sciencse training, cause the MCAT has a lot to do with the first 2 yrs of the classes that you're taking. So the less personal attention will turn me off.
University of Rochester: perfect fit. Medium sized. Get decent attention. Great for research. Great music department. But it's so darn cold.
Bowdoin College: small schools turn me off. Lots of personal attention. great accademics and professors. Great campus, food. Maine is too small for me.
Carleton College: MN is way too cold. But i've heard students are less arrogant compared amherst, williams, swarthmore....etc. But that's just one student. Again, great everything, but the location and weather thwarts me from attending.
Williams College: Just too isolated and cold. Great music programme.</p>
<p>I would pick Emory University. But since I've to pick one from this list, I'll take Williams. Since none of the schools on your list fits my need completely, i'll have to go with prestige, and imo, Williams is very very elite.</p>
<p>Thants funny I am a big sports fan too, thats why my first choice is ND im kinda turned off by the strictness but i do not drink and I go to a Catholic HS so i am accostumed. UNC seems perfect but I am scared about prestige and intro classes and everything you said about the other schools is how I feel. Still its a hige blow no to have a school with great teams as ND and UNC.</p>
<p>Leets see if anyone else responds.</p>
<p>search for posts by bigredmed. He has addressed how to pick a college for premed many times.</p>
<p>Yeah I know have read them, but I wanted tos ee the feedback on this specific universities and colleges.</p>
<p>I'll get to this later. Basic response, go where you have the best fit, will be the happiest, and will have the best chance at academic, social, emotional, and physical success in great balance. Don't choose a school based on how you think it will get in med school. That's a recipe for disaster.</p>
<p>Also, just b/c you don't drink now, doesn't mean you won't in the future!</p>
<p>How could I know where will I have the best chance at academic sucess? I really did not choose those colleges becasue they would get me into med school, yet by confusion is that I do not know where I would have the best academic sucess, still my fit is that a school has intramural sports, people like to play sports, decent social life, temperature, cost(im out of state for UNC btw) and research opportunities.</p>
<p>they are all good. all schools will be good for premed. do campus visits to make your decision, but you won't go wrong with any of your choices</p>
<p>As was stated, choosing a place to major in Pre-Medicine should largely be based on how well you like the college, i.e. is it a good fit for your needs. Large university or small college? Both will get you into medical school if you have a high GPA in your science foundation classes and decent MCAT scores. The truth is, a large state school like Washington State University has a great placement record at the renown U of Washington Medical School. While a small college like Allegheny College has similar success in placing its graduates. Colleges like those two couldn't be more different, so select your college based on what you like (or dislike) about it.</p>
<p>I can tell you that Bowdoin's Pre-Med program is really good (likewise same goes for Carleton and Williams)! Nearly 90% of students that apply to medical school get accepted to at least one school. The courses at Bowdoin are very vigorous so be prepared to work; however, you'll be extremely prepared for the MCAT, especially for organic chemistry section. Bowdoin also has very updated science facilities.</p>
<p>Any school with an acceptance rate of 90%+ needs to be assumed of having a screening process of potential applicants until proven otherwise. These committees are used for prevent students who don't possess extremely competitive applications from even applying. For those students on the edge of being "extremely competitive" there becomes a very strange conflict of interest for the committee as they balance being fair to the students vs. their latent goal of keeping acceptance rates high. In my opinion, medical schools should be the ones who decide who gets into medical school, not some group of individuals who aren't medical faculty and have a very different goal than the students.</p>
<p>Amen, Bigredmed.</p>
<p>Cornell, JHU and Washu are schools that you DON'T want to go to if you are a pre-med
reason: Grade Deflation.
University of Notre Dame
UNC- Chapel Hill
University of Rochester
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Williams College
are all good, i would highly recommend Rochester (if you are intl), because they accept only a selective group of people in to their med school, and if you are from their undergrad, they'll love you.
"Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Williams College" they are good, because they are small, you can get acquainted with your professors, and actually be able to realize what you will like! and maybe even find out medicine is not for you(happened to me, i am going to do bio research now :))</p>
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UNC seems perfect but I am scared about prestige and intro classes and everything you said about the other schools is how I feel.
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I wouldn't worry about prestige. Chapel Hill has an an excellent reputation, both among academics and on the street. As for class sizes, it depends. Intro courses can be fairly large (although not more so than at Duke or Cornell), but this is usually not a problem. Most courses are surprisingly small, including many capped at 15-30 students. It's easy to approach professors about research if you take the initiative.</p>
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May have to deal with students with less qualification, since it's a state school.
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Shockingly (:rolleyes:), I haven't found much difference between the students at Duke and UNC. Even if a significant difference existed, isn't that better for the curve? ;)</p>