Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 11:33     Subject: Re:Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Med schools don't care about the ranking of your undergrad college. They care about your GPA. A 4.0 from a less rigorous college serves you better than a 3.7 from a rigorous college. I would pick the school where your DD has the best chance of getting the highest grades, which might be a less selective college than she would otherwise choose if she wasn't planning to go to medical school.

This is the advice I’ve seen for many years from people who have been through the process. The more grade inflation a college has the better if med school is the goal. Most SLACs are in this category, but you should be able to get a sense by googling.


This is good advice- the current method initial candidate screening looks heavily at GPA and MCAT score. Have good grades (including in the core science classes) and MCAT prep to score as well as you can.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 11:31     Subject: Re:Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Med schools don't care about the ranking of your undergrad college. They care about your GPA. A 4.0 from a less rigorous college serves you better than a 3.7 from a rigorous college. I would pick the school where your DD has the best chance of getting the highest grades, which might be a less selective college than she would otherwise choose if she wasn't planning to go to medical school.



THIS


It's changing a bit though because the med schools are onto it--they are now using algorithms to offset.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 11:28     Subject: Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did your daughter take AP chem and AP Bio and AP Calc BC and get A’s and get 1500+ on her SATs? If not, have a back up plan for premed.

NP but DS found that "everyone" in the first level of these classes in college had already aced them in high school. They were retaking them to boost their GPA's for med school apps. (thus the "weeding out" I think that another pp referred to)


It’s not just for the GPA bump. Med schools generally don’t accept AP credits for their prepreqs. Gotta take those classes in college.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 08:36     Subject: Re:Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:Med schools don't care about the ranking of your undergrad college. They care about your GPA. A 4.0 from a less rigorous college serves you better than a 3.7 from a rigorous college. I would pick the school where your DD has the best chance of getting the highest grades, which might be a less selective college than she would otherwise choose if she wasn't planning to go to medical school.



THIS
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 08:36     Subject: Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
I’d go where she’d be less likely to be weeded out with smaller classes and grade inflation
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 08:32     Subject: Re:Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:Med schools don't care about the ranking of your undergrad college. They care about your GPA. A 4.0 from a less rigorous college serves you better than a 3.7 from a rigorous college. I would pick the school where your DD has the best chance of getting the highest grades, which might be a less selective college than she would otherwise choose if she wasn't planning to go to medical school.

This is the advice I’ve seen for many years from people who have been through the process. The more grade inflation a college has the better if med school is the goal. Most SLACs are in this category, but you should be able to get a sense by googling.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 08:20     Subject: Re:Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Med schools don't care about the ranking of your undergrad college. They care about your GPA. A 4.0 from a less rigorous college serves you better than a 3.7 from a rigorous college. I would pick the school where your DD has the best chance of getting the highest grades, which might be a less selective college than she would otherwise choose if she wasn't planning to go to medical school.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 08:20     Subject: Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has the EAP (early assurance program) for undergrads who would like to go to Georgetown and who excel at the premed requirements for their first 2 years.
If your DC is committed to premed, this would be a great path.


I imagine it to be extremely competitive
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2022 08:01     Subject: Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Why isn’t GU med school ranked higher?
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2022 21:40     Subject: Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown no question. Much higher ranked for starters. Well-rounded liberal arts program including philosophy and theology (basic stuff, not Catholic) so you become a thinking, human practitioner. As PP said there is the early assurance program for med school and a double GU degree is nothing to sneeze at. Depending on side interest there is opportunity to pursue public health or health policy, international perspectives, expansive study abroad program. Yup, I’m a GU grad and alumna interviewer. Knowing how many awesome candidates I’ve interviewed who did not gain admission, I commend you on some great options. Hoya Saxa!


Any medical school admitted to (in the US) is good. But Georgetown med isn’t great if one’s ranking them.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2022 21:35     Subject: Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Georgetown no question. Much higher ranked for starters. Well-rounded liberal arts program including philosophy and theology (basic stuff, not Catholic) so you become a thinking, human practitioner. As PP said there is the early assurance program for med school and a double GU degree is nothing to sneeze at. Depending on side interest there is opportunity to pursue public health or health policy, international perspectives, expansive study abroad program. Yup, I’m a GU grad and alumna interviewer. Knowing how many awesome candidates I’ve interviewed who did not gain admission, I commend you on some great options. Hoya Saxa!
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2022 21:16     Subject: Re:Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:No one is pre-med anymore. As long as you have the med school prerequisites you can major in anything. My son was a Latin major and got into Harvard medical school. MCATS are tough and important.

I would choose a SLAC. My nephew is planning on med school and is in neuroscience at Pomona College. His opportunities for research have been outstanding.



Everyone knows you don’t major in “pre med”. It references career goal and fact that med school reqs will be taken.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2022 21:13     Subject: Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did your daughter take AP chem and AP Bio and AP Calc BC and get A’s and get 1500+ on her SATs? If not, have a back up plan for premed.


Really?


Absolutely.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2022 21:11     Subject: Re:Pre-med upitt or georgetown or slac?
No one is pre-med anymore. As long as you have the med school prerequisites you can major in anything. My son was a Latin major and got into Harvard medical school. MCATS are tough and important.

I would choose a SLAC. My nephew is planning on med school and is in neuroscience at Pomona College. His opportunities for research have been outstanding.