<p>Which school is best for pre med, CAS or CALS. I'm going to apply to one of them as my second choice, but which one should be my first choice?</p>
<p>It’s the same biology department, but each college has its own distribution requirements. What college you choose first depends really on whatever supplemental courses/majors you want to take on.</p>
<p>it depends what ur major will be. Right now CALs’s premed advisors are lame. Humec has some great ones (Paula and Verdeen)… BTW…major in what will get you a high GPA</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>A Cornell pre-med senior :)</p>
<p>CALS is best because AEM major is in CALS</p>
<p>anbu is totally wrong, sorry ithachi.</p>
<p>i don’t know if he/she was making a joke, but aem has absolutely nothing to do with premed. </p>
<p>short answer: if you’re a ny state resident, apply to cals. the price cut on tuition is well worth it.</p>
<p>i graduated from cornell 2 years ago, and went to cals because i lived in ny. you’ll find that when you get on campus, an A&S or a Cals or a hotelie or whatever is basically the same- a cornell student. also, your major or your school have very little bearing on your medical school application success; most of the required pre-med courses are inundated with students from all of the cornell schools. your chem 207/208 or bio or physics or orgo and everything else will have students from each school. if you’re goal is to become a doctor focus on your grades and your mcats and get some (less important) clinical experience. </p>
<p>fyi, i was asking the same question 6 years ago, and am now in the 2nd half of med school in a top 20 medical school.</p>
<p>That’s because you are smart since you got into a top 20 school so it doesn’t matter to you. We don’t know that about the OP. I said CALS because the average GPA for AEM is very high, which is important for med school process. Also if fail to get into med school, it also leaves a great backup, temporary or permanent.</p>
<p>But if OP wants to be Bio major, then it makes no difference.</p>
<p>I’m probably somewhat biased but Human Ecology definitely seems like it would be the best choice. CALS is a lot bigger, but Human Ecology has more personal attention and more suitable majors in my opinion.</p>