LAC Biology Pre Med

[Anonymous]

My DC wants Bio, Pre Med. They are obsessed with flagship schools. They are to big. What LACs have best pre-med pipline for bio and research opportunities as an undergraduate?

[Anonymous]

Holy Cross has fantastic premed program. Grads from HC include Nobel Prize winner, Dr Fauci, several current Medical School Deans and former President of AMA.

[Anonymous]

Flagship schools are too big for what? Your (the parent’s) liking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Flagship schools are too big for what? Your (the parent’s) liking?

Kid. They are not aggressive enough to work the system like you have to; would drown.

[Anonymous]

If you have a student who wants to go to a large school and you force them to go to a SLAC, they will be angry and resentful (and blame you when they are unhappy). You need to step back, even if that means they might make a mistake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flagship schools are too big for what? Your (the parent’s) liking?

Kid. They are not aggressive enough to work the system like you have to; would drown.

So, again, it’s too big for your liking.

[Anonymous]

Tufts a bigger school not really an LAC and Holy Cross is strong.

[Anonymous]

Yes I went to Michigan. Never talk it up at all. Made the mistake of taking them out with me. Hooked. O Chem with 400 would not work and they don’t see it.

[Anonymous]

Unless you post GPA, SAT, home state, etc., it's going to be impossible for people to give recommendations.

[Anonymous]

Richmond
Wake Forest
Amherst
William and Mary

[Anonymous]

Would a smaller state flagship work?

U Conn or U Mass?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless you post GPA, SAT, home state, etc., it's going to be impossible for people to give recommendations.

In MD. At a private day school. No weighted GPA. 3.76. 33 ACT. Have no knowledge of Liberal Arts other than a few pals who went to Colorado College over 25 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Lol at UConn and UMass. Both are hardly academic pre-med heavyweights and enrollments are very big.

[Anonymous]

This site includes LACs such as Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Pomona, Grinnell, Wofford, Davidson, Wellesley and Barnard:

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/from-pre-med-to-md-understanding-the-pathways-to-medical-school/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This site includes LACs such as Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Pomona, Grinnell, Wofford, Davidson, Wellesley and Barnard:

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/from-pre-med-to-md-understanding-the-pathways-to-medical-school/

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