<p>My son was accepted to Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Caltech, Duke, Darthmouth, Cornell, Brown, and Emory(full-ride). </p>
<p>Princeton and Yale financial aid packages are good. He wants to do pre-med. We visited both colleges last year. He is oscillating between Princeton and Yale. Your input is greatly appreciated. We live in South Carolina.</p>
<p>If I were in your son’s situation, I would pick Yale, though I generally prefer Princeton. The grade deflation at Princeton is not fully compensated for by medical schools and thus may be problematic.</p>
<p>Both great. Silverturtle is right that Yale is better for med school recruiting (and general grad recruiting). This existed before grade deflation, but grade deflation has made it worse.</p>
<p>Thanks you so much sliverturtle and booyasha. Please Bump</p>
<p>Take a look at the many similar threads currently on the Pre-Med Topics subforum.</p>
<p>Yale all the way!</p>
<p>More unbiased suggestions please.</p>
<p>Can he visit both schools again? Each has a distinct campus culture. He knows more about himself than he did when he visited a year ago, and the visits may make his choice clear.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot. We are planning visiting in couple of weeks.</p>
<p>Don’t know about Princeton but Yale’s pre-med advising is great. Also, opportunities for research and shadowing are amazing. Look into Perspectives on Science and Engineering program.</p>
<p>Thank you very much proudmum</p>
<p>He should think about the social scenes at each school and which he feels comfortable in. He’ll be fine academically at both.</p>
<p>How many students go to medical colleges from Yale every year?</p>
<p>Here are some admissions statistics: <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/career/students/gradprof/media/med_school_stats.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/career/students/gradprof/media/med_school_stats.pdf</a></p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>wjb, </p>
<p>In the pdf that you linked, there are a total of 32,000 applications but roughly 5,000 acceptances, which when calculated yields a low percent of acceptance. However, Yale’s website talks about a 90ish % of acceptances to medical schools. Could you clarify?</p>
<p>I am not quite as pro-Yale as some others here. Ya, Yale will probably be less stressful than Pton for Premed given Pton’s grade deflation. However, at the end of the day, Pton still does have a 93% med school acceptance rate. That number has actually gone UP since grade deflation was implemented back in the early 2000s. So, basically, I think it should come down to preferences. I love the area around Pton so I’d prbly pick that school. However, its totally up 2 u.</p>
<p>^^ Most applicants probably applied to more than one school. Hence, there were far fewer than 32,000 actual applicants, and Yale’s claim probably means that 90% of the applicants were accepted to at least one of the schools to which they applied.</p>
<p>Any statistics from recent Yale medical school applicants(Yale students who applied to medical schools). How many students applied(in 2009), how many got accepted, and how many to each medical school?</p>
<p>I cannot supply official numbers right now(need to look around a bit), but generally speaking there really is not much difference in medical school acceptance rates to top schools between Yale and Princeton. Maybe the numbers tilt slightly in favor of Yale, but I’m not 100% sure. If they do, its only due to Yale accepting a decent number from its own undergraduate school.</p>
<p>What I can certainly say however is that Yale’s Medical School does offer a variety of opportunities in terms of facilities and research opportunities that Princeton does not have, due to its lacking a Medical School.</p>
<p>Purely subjectively speaking, I’d favor Yale. Being a fan of natural beauty, I’ve tried for ages now to convince myself that Princeton is the most suitable school for me, with all of its magnificent arches, trees and gardens. However I’ve come to realize that I had better pick Yale over Princeton were I given the choice. Princeton’s grade deflation policy as well as its senior thesis requirement both increase competition and make an already hard Ivy League education even more stressful to students. Some argue that both the things I pointed out encourage good working habits and help create motivation, but I think that any student accepted to these schools can certainly have the necessary motivation on his own, even the most hooked of the hooked admits.</p>
<p>And Yale DOES have the great residential college system. You should certainly look into that.</p>
<p>I hope you do not think my post is severely lacking in factual evidence and explations, but it is 3:30 AM here as I’m writing this and I really am very tired.</p>