Medium sized schools for premed

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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.

You’re missing point, people are trying to add context for why there isn’t weed out. Relax.

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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

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

DP. Yes the top 25% cutoff is around 3.95 now. Average is around 3.8+. Duke premed shares data with their students: A 3.6 is below average for sure yet a very large portion get into at least one US MD school with 3.6. A 3.8+ is enough for a T30 med depending on other factors. Top schools have different outcomes as the student pool is not typical.

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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

Third vote for W&M!

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Holy Cross — it’s large for a SLAC and excellent pre-med.

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Maybe consider: Case Western (offers great merit aid), Rice, Brandeis,

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Wake, University of Rochester, and Case Western are all good options for what you are looking for. A teaching hospital adjacent to campus plus medium size is a great set up.

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As others have said, CWRU is a great premed school. It checks many of boxes for premed. It sends good number of students to med schools every year.