Medium sized schools for premed

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Anonymous wrote:Rice

Yup — Rice hits the sweet spot on size, is in a suburban-ish area of a major city (kind of an AU feel), and has an excellent track record for med school applicants, due in part to its location and connections to major hospitals and research institutions. My son, his fiancée, and many of their friends are Rice grads now in med school. And they all loooved Rice.

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My kid is at an elite with high percentage acceptance rate. Can’t claim I know all the nuisance, but everyone that started with them is still going. No one is weeded out, some just require gap year to have more time for all the extras needed.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is at an elite with high percentage acceptance rate. Can’t claim I know all the nuisance, but everyone that started with them is still going. No one is weeded out, some just require gap year to have more time for all the extras needed.

This low weed out could only happen at S, Y, H. But we know a lot of SYH kids switched to finance or tech in sophomore year. So, not really.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is at an elite with high percentage acceptance rate. Can’t claim I know all the nuisance, but everyone that started with them is still going. No one is weeded out, some just require gap year to have more time for all the extras needed.

This low weed out could only happen at S, Y, H. But we know a lot of SYH kids switched to finance or tech in sophomore year. So, not really.

Not true for my kids Ivy, but I only claim knowledge on schools I have some idea about.

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Not sure if this is considered medium but William & Mary. Not in a big city but near a couple. Our kid is pre-med entering senior year. Small classes and labs. Excellent professors.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is considered medium but William & Mary. Not in a big city but near a couple. Our kid is pre-med entering senior year. Small classes and labs. Excellent professors.

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As to size it is medium. 7k undergrads. Many of the perks of the much smaller SLACs but totally different feel bc it is larger

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Rice, Vanderbilt and WashU all do really well with med schools

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A little outside the box but might be worth a look - University of Vermont. In Burlington. 11K undergrad. Honors program would have very small classes. D1 Research.

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Anonymous wrote:A little outside the box but might be worth a look - University of Vermont. In Burlington. 11K undergrad. Honors program would have very small classes. D1 Research.

If not going for the top elite, I actually think this is a solid strategy. Be a standout versus fight the masses at a UVA, UNC, UCLA etc.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is at an elite with high percentage acceptance rate. Can’t claim I know all the nuisance, but everyone that started with them is still going. No one is weeded out, some just require gap year to have more time for all the extras needed.

Same with mine, at Duke

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is at an elite with high percentage acceptance rate. Can’t claim I know all the nuisance, but everyone that started with them is still going. No one is weeded out, some just require gap year to have more time for all the extras needed.

This low weed out could only happen at S, Y, H. But we know a lot of SYH kids switched to finance or tech in sophomore year. So, not really.

Not true at all. Duke gives very few Cs for my premed there all the friends sill premed. DS at an ivy for Bioengineering has lots of premed friends and they also have very little premed or engineering weedout. These schools select students who can get through the curriculum—engineering school has 98% continue in engineering from first to second year. Premed drops the school does not count but he knows no one who dropped, engineer or not. The ones with more Bs than As are spacing out stem and planning a gap year. B+ is the median in science classes with 40% usually getting A- and A. Rising junior, orgo and all the hard stuff is already done for them—weedout would have happened. The school data says 93% with 3.6+ get in, though with a school average of 518 and gpa 3.7 its less surprising success so high

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Another reason, at my kid’s Ivy at least (and I assume all), orgo starts second semester freshman year as they all skip intro classes. These aren’t kids that will be weeded out for grades, very advanced.

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Anonymous wrote:Another reason, at my kid’s Ivy at least (and I assume all), orgo starts second semester freshman year as they all skip intro classes. These aren’t kids that will be weeded out for grades, very advanced.

You must be so proud of your kid's Ivy. I don't know you, but I feel like I know you.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is considered medium but William & Mary. Not in a big city but near a couple. Our kid is pre-med entering senior year. Small classes and labs. Excellent professors.

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As to size it is medium. 7k undergrads. Many of the perks of the much smaller SLACs but totally different feel bc it is larger

And excellent stats on med school admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at an elite with high percentage acceptance rate. Can’t claim I know all the nuisance, but everyone that started with them is still going. No one is weeded out, some just require gap year to have more time for all the extras needed.

This low weed out could only happen at S, Y, H. But we know a lot of SYH kids switched to finance or tech in sophomore year. So, not really.

Not true at all. Duke gives very few Cs for my premed there all the friends sill premed. DS at an ivy for Bioengineering has lots of premed friends and they also have very little premed or engineering weedout. These schools select students who can get through the curriculum—engineering school has 98% continue in engineering from first to second year. Premed drops the school does not count but he knows no one who dropped, engineer or not. The ones with more Bs than As are spacing out stem and planning a gap year. B+ is the median in science classes with 40% usually getting A- and A. Rising junior, orgo and all the hard stuff is already done for them—weedout would have happened. The school data says 93% with 3.6+ get in, though with a school average of 518 and gpa 3.7 its less surprising success so high

Duke cum laude gpa ~3.9.
A gpa of 3.6, 3.7 sounds awful. Awful!