@SaphireNY aren’t you a high schooler? Who do you think knows more about this, you or me (MD/PhD student who interviews applicants, got to attend adcom meetings and had a friend who was a voting member of my school’s adcom)?
And let me add one thing so we end on an educational note - med schools want future physicians. period. full stop.
That’s all they want when building a class. You’re right, they could probably assemble a class of entirely science majors but they know that there are plenty of amazing future physicians who don’t major in the sciences in undergrad. The reason they don’t exclusively admit science majors isn’t to achieve diversity, it’s to capture the best candidates. To quote my school’s Dean of Admissions (she was actually talking about interviews, but it applies across the board), “Ultimately what I’m trying to figure out is: Can I see this person in an exam room interacting with and treating patients?”
“Saphire aren’t you a high schooler? Who do you think knows more about this, you or me (MD/PhD student who interviews applicants, got to attend adcom meetings and had a friend who was a voting member of my school’s adcom)?”
Is that polite? How do you know my dad is not the dean of admissions at some med school (he is not)? Or that I have 10 older brothers and sisters all of whom are med students and some of them were political science majors and I watched them go through the process. Or that maybe I just read a lot, want to go to med school myself and have spent plenty of time reading posts about this stuff. This is my opinion, I might be right, I might be wrong but I respectfully disagreed with you. I expect the same courtesy
I know all those things aren’t true because what you were saying was clearly wrong. You didn’t speak with conjecture, you spoke with authority. Had you made it clear you knew that was just your opinion and open to being wrong I would have responded differently.
I don’t think it was Cornell. Very science oriented there. Maybe it was Icahn they were talking about?
@plumazul is right, it’s Mount Sinai, not Cornell: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/05/27/407967899/a-top-medical-school-revamps-requirements-to-lure-english-majors Although I thought they had gotten rid of/expanded the HuMed program