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[quote=Anonymous]I think your kid should go to the college that seems like the best fit.

For reference, I went to Wesleyan (probably couldn’t have gotten into Williams even 20 years ago!) and then got an MD,PhD. I can’t remember exactly, but I got into a bunch of med schools - I recall acceptances at Columbia, Penn, Yale, u Michigan, and Pittsburgh (I was applying MSTP, so the in-state preferences didn’t apply to me). I certainly wasn’t the best student at Wes - but Wes was a good fit for me, which made me look better than I would have at a different school.

I say this because I was not pre-med when I started - I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be. I found out about the options and changed my mind in college. Luckily, Wes offered a good learning style for me, so I did well & this opened up lots of options.

I also don’t understand all of this fuss about city vs. country environment. Who cares? If you are premed you won’t be going out much! So it really doesn’t matter where you are. I wasn’t even premed and I felt like I spent >95% of my waking hours in class, lab or SciLi.[/quote]

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