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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To 00:38 sorry for late response, I am not on here to frequently. Differences between Bowdoin and Middlebury. 1st the student bodies are different Middlebury has a much larger percentage of international students. Next the setting is different. Middlebury really is in the middle of no where isolated. Some feel that the isolation can lead to a stronger sense of community bonding. Bowdoin is in a quaint small town with more resources. We found the Bowdoin campus more compact and Middlebury spread out. If you trust all the survey's the food at Bowdoin is the best in the country. Also Middlebury had a January requirement I think. These are the basic "factual" differences in my view. But in the end it all boils down to feel. Any student can get a world class education at either school. I cannot emphasize this enough. I graduated from Williams in 1982. Being from Missouri nobody had ever heard of Williams. However [b]when I applied to medical school every single school knew of Williams and were impressed. The University of Missouri was impressed, Cornell, Washington University, University of Penn, Northwestern all felt that Williams was great. That is all that mattered to me.[/b] I have to assume the same is still true today. Go where you are going to have the best time. I believe every graduate program will look at a student with same grades and same test scores the same if one is from Bowdoin and another is from Penn.[/quote]

Sorry, but this is total bs. How would you know this ?

Medical schools do not care where one attended undergraduate school; medical schools care about an applicant's GPA, MCAT score, interview, and involvement in & exposure to the practice of medicine.[/quote]

Not strictly true. Med schools love high-achieving humanities majors too. They are admitted at an equal rate, and don't necessarily have much "involvement in the practice of medicine."[/quote]

Not sure when this became a discussion about humanities v. other majors.

Two family members were heads of med schools. One med school at a major university, the other was primarily regional. If you don't think that demonstrated exposure to, and demonstrated interest in, the practice of medicine is an important admissions factor then you are wrong.

Again, only you brought up the humanities major issue. Humanities is fine IF one's MCAT score is within the acceptable range. Nevertheless, I feel confident that you are unfamiliar with medical school admissions.[/quote]

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