Best for pre-med

[Anonymous]

Rice, Emory, WashU, Vandy, Duke no particular order. Umich is awful for premed.

[Anonymous]

Any thoughts on VA schools?

[Anonymous]

Brown. PLME is a VERY tough admit but if you make it you're golden. If you do the more typical pre med path, it's also great to be able to take your non-science classes S/NC--Brown's version of pass/fail--the semester you take organic chem.

Be careful with the "cheapest/highest GPA" undergrad path. I know 3 people who did this. None of the 3 got a good enough MCAT score to get into med school on their first try. One took a year off and went to one of those post-grad programs where you can take pre-med reqs. No financial aid available for those as far as I know. Anyway, the extra year wiped out the savings, but he did get into med school. One of the others is now a podiatrist--still had to take the MCAT, but a lower score was enough to get in for podiatry. Third is now a nurse-practitioner. Applied to med school 4 times before he gave up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basically all the top SLACs.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Pomona.

Middlebury has a higher success rate than most if not all of these schools and all of these schools have acceptance rates far above average. Basically topSLACs are the way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice, Emory, WashU, Vandy, Duke no particular order. Umich is awful for premed.

This is OP. Why is that? Is it because it is so big with many kids doing premed it is hard to gain extra opportunities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brown. PLME is a VERY tough admit but if you make it you're golden. If you do the more typical pre med path, it's also great to be able to take your non-science classes S/NC--Brown's version of pass/fail--the semester you take organic chem.

Be careful with the "cheapest/highest GPA" undergrad path. I know 3 people who did this. None of the 3 got a good enough MCAT score to get into med school on their first try. One took a year off and went to one of those post-grad programs where you can take pre-med reqs. No financial aid available for those as far as I know. Anyway, the extra year wiped out the savings, but he did get into med school. One of the others is now a podiatrist--still had to take the MCAT, but a lower score was enough to get in for podiatry. Third is now a nurse-practitioner. Applied to med school 4 times before he gave up.

What is PLME?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Pomona.

Middlebury has a higher success rate than most if not all of these schools and all of these schools have acceptance rates far above average. Basically topSLACs are the way to go.

Middlebury is not a significant feeder. It’s probably got few students applying to med school, boosting the percent: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school

[Anonymous]

This site, which would seem to work best as a sampling, suggests Bates, Bowdoin, Brown, Duke, Hamilton, JHU, Princeton, Rice, Stanford and Union:

A Guide to The Best Colleges for Pre-Med Students - InGenius Prep https://ingeniusprep.com/blog/best-colleges-for-pre-med-students/

[Anonymous]

The school’s with major medical complexes nearby tend to do well with med school placement - Vanderbilt, Duke, Harvard, Rice, Northwestern, Emory, Penn, WashU, Johns Hopkins. The caliber of students at these schools is strong and they have opportunities that often aren’t available at state flagships or SLACs.

But undergrad plus med school is incredibly expensive. So every med school is looking at state schools. But it’s harder for those students to distinguish themselves. And it might be harder to get a high MCAT score when expectations might be lower in undergrad at some schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This site, which would seem to work best as a sampling, suggests Bates, Bowdoin, Brown, Duke, Hamilton, JHU, Princeton, Rice, Stanford and Union:

A Guide to The Best Colleges for Pre-Med Students - InGenius Prep https://ingeniusprep.com/blog/best-colleges-for-pre-med-students/

How? By what criteria? That's not how sampling works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any thoughts on VA schools?

UVA has a pretty reputable program with a great teaching hospital on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of schools of thought on this and much of it depends on finances and medical school goals. Many will say cheapest option where you can high gpa. Certainly in-state U of M will work well for finance side. Other factors to consider are class sizes for both classroom experience but also recommendations and opportunities, access to quality premed advising starting early, and I think easy access to plentiful clinical opportunities is a big help. If chasing a top medical school, a name brand school helps.

-agree, plus top-25 type med schools are much more likely to have need-based and merit based funding for at least one of the four years which decreases loans significantly. A few are free to top students.
-school with medical school on or near campus helps a lot
-school where kid is likely to be top 10-25%, unless it is a T15/ivy then just need to aim for around average or above

Most important is somewhere you can get a high GPA, access to professors for excellent/meaningful recommendations and access to research and volunteering in undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Is Johns Hopkins no longer a pipeline to medical school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Johns Hopkins no longer a pipeline to medical school?

Of course it is. But if you are good enough for Hopkins, you don't need to find "best" pre-med. Hopkins undergrad is tough, btw.