Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?

[Anonymous]

Do pre-med students usually apply their senior year? DD is trying to decide on her choice school. Location or cost isn’t a factor.

[Anonymous]

Which SLAC?

[Anonymous]

Is cost a factor? Some who need to save for medical school recommend attending a less expensive undergrad option. My DD's best friend is a pre-med at Haverford and likes the small LAC environment for things like finding research early, course advising, tutoring in pre-med subjects like organic chemistry, and less competitive peers and curving.

[Anonymous]

Pitt is strong in the life sciences.

[Anonymous]

Traditional pre-med students apply in May of Junior year of college.

[Anonymous]

You can also take a gap year or two to work and build your resume, especially if you put off taking the MCAT and also need a break between schooling.

[Anonymous]

This is an area of strength and opportunity for Pitt students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitt is strong in the life sciences.

Speaking as a Pitt grad, yes I do agree they are very strong in life sciences. Excellent medical school to boot!

But...the freshmen science classes are weed-out classes. Is DD absolutely, 100% set on medical school? If so, I would go to an SLAC so she doesn't have to deal with weed-out classes. If she is having problems with bio, chemistry, o-chem I think she would be more easily able to get help from her professor at an SLAC than at Pitt.

If she is not 100% set on medical school, the good thing about Pitt is she can try it. If she doesn't like those science classes, she would have more opportunities to try different majors.

Signed - a victim of those freshman weed out science classes who changed majors when she realized she wouldn't be attending Pitt's pharmacy school as a sophomore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pitt is strong in the life sciences.

Speaking as a Pitt grad, yes I do agree they are very strong in life sciences. Excellent medical school to boot!

But...the freshmen science classes are weed-out classes. Is DD absolutely, 100% set on medical school? If so, I would go to an SLAC so she doesn't have to deal with weed-out classes. If she is having problems with bio, chemistry, o-chem I think she would be more easily able to get help from her professor at an SLAC than at Pitt.

If she is not 100% set on medical school, the good thing about Pitt is she can try it. If she doesn't like those science classes, she would have more opportunities to try different majors.

Signed - a victim of those freshman weed out science classes who changed majors when she realized she wouldn't be attending Pitt's pharmacy school as a sophomore.

This sounds like most hard science-based or engineering classes at any medium-large university. So, yes, a small college might give you more attention.
Pitt is surrounded by outstanding internship opportunities.

[Anonymous]

there would be a strong pre-med peer set at georgetown

[Anonymous]

Georgetown has the EAP (early assurance program) for undergrads who would like to go to Georgetown and who excel at the premed requirements for their first 2 years.
If your DC is committed to premed, this would be a great path.

[Anonymous]

Did your daughter take AP chem and AP Bio and AP Calc BC and get A’s and get 1500+ on her SATs? If not, have a back up plan for premed.

[Anonymous]

Whatever is cheapest. You’ll need every penny for med school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did your daughter take AP chem and AP Bio and AP Calc BC and get A’s and get 1500+ on her SATs? If not, have a back up plan for premed.

Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did your daughter take AP chem and AP Bio and AP Calc BC and get A’s and get 1500+ on her SATs? If not, have a back up plan for premed.

NP but DS found that "everyone" in the first level of these classes in college had already aced them in high school. They were retaking them to boost their GPA's for med school apps. (thus the "weeding out" I think that another pp referred to)