Medium sized schools for premed

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Mercer

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago?

Tough for pre-med because of grade deflation.

[Anonymous]

Case western— very easy access to hospitals with a lot of opportunities for pre meds. Small classes, lots of smart kids.

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Tulane.

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W&M would seem to fit the bill for a spot on the list.

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Anonymous wrote:DS wants to go to a medium, not too small, college without huge classes with hundreds of students. He likes urban or suburban near a major city.

Can you recommend some colleges to add to his list?

Penn
Georgetown
BC
Tufts
Emory

What's his concerns about big classes? Not being able to find his way or competition or else?

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Anonymous wrote:Even medium schools will have larger intro classes you'll take as a premed.

He would like to avoid huge classes. Also doesn’t want to attend a small SLAC.

I hear you, just not sure it exists. I’ll be curious. Mine is at a medium known premed classes and all the pre-req science have been large lectures so far.

Er, depends on the school. Penn premed '27 has not had more than one above 100, most have been under 50. Most ivies, maybe not cornell idk, have small sections compared to UVA or even stanford.

OP pick one of the mid-size top schools where they have a med school on or decently close to campus with bus service if not walkable:
Penn (on campus)
Yale (on campus)
Duke (on campus)
Vanderbilt (on campus)
Emory (on campus)

Brown (shuttle/bus, less than 5 mi)
Harvard (less than 5mi)
WashU (less than 5mi)
Hopkins (less than 5mi)
Columbia (less than 5mi)

Op here. DS would love any of the schools you listed. He is high stats and has a shot. It is easier to identify reach schools. Hoping to add some schools outside T20.

Less reachy but still top50, medium, with associated med school:
Wake, BU, Case Western

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All ivies except Princeton and Cornell.
Stanford
Duke
Not JHU
Rice
Vanderbilt
WashU
Emory

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Anonymous wrote:All ivies except Princeton and Cornell.
Stanford
Duke
Not JHU
Rice
Vanderbilt
WashU
Emory

Why not JHU?

Northwestern is missing from the list.

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Tulane, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago?

Tough for pre-med because of grade deflation.

UChicago has historically had one of the higher med school acceptance rates and a professor told DC UChicago is implementing new policies to addressing the concerns with grade deflation...

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Anonymous wrote:Even medium schools will have larger intro classes you'll take as a premed.

He would like to avoid huge classes. Also doesn’t want to attend a small SLAC.

I hear you, just not sure it exists. I’ll be curious. Mine is at a medium known premed classes and all the pre-req science have been large lectures so far.

Er, depends on the school. Penn premed '27 has not had more than one above 100, most have been under 50. Most ivies, maybe not cornell idk, have small sections compared to UVA or even stanford.

OP pick one of the mid-size top schools where they have a med school on or decently close to campus with bus service if not walkable:
Penn (on campus)
Yale (on campus)
Duke (on campus)
Vanderbilt (on campus)
Emory (on campus)

Brown (shuttle/bus, less than 5 mi)
Harvard (less than 5mi)
WashU (less than 5mi)
Hopkins (less than 5mi)
Columbia (less than 5mi)

Op here. DS would love any of the schools you listed. He is high stats and has a shot. It is easier to identify reach schools. Hoping to add some schools outside T20.

Less reachy but still top50, medium, with associated med school:
Wake, BU, Case Western

My DD attends Case Western. It checks a lot of the boxes but like another poster said, the intro classes were on the larger side.

[Anonymous]

Also add U Rochester.

As mentioned above, most intro premed classes even at medium R1 universities will be large lecture style. The only way to avoid that is to attend a SLAC. J

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Pitt

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago?

Tough for pre-med because of grade deflation.

UChicago has historically had one of the higher med school acceptance rates and a professor told DC UChicago is implementing new policies to addressing the concerns with grade deflation...

The higher acceptance rate can be misleading if you don’t know how many were weeded out before they get to the application stage.

We will wait until the new policies are implemented, it could take years.