Anonymous
05/31/2023 20:25
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it better to try for Georgetown or UNC or UMD due to better pre-med and hospitals around?
Not necessarily. VT has a med program and hospital access. [/quote]
Do you mean Schiffert hospital? It has only 11 doctors.
Nice trolling. Schiffert is the health center for students. As you know.
Actually I don’t. I’m trying to figure out what PO means by “hospital access@. UVA has its medical center. Is the hospital access the Carilion center in Roanoke?
"Hospital access" is much more important when you are in medical school or are a Doctor than it is when you are pre-med.
Anonymous
05/31/2023 17:43
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it better to try for Georgetown or UNC or UMD due to better pre-med and hospitals around?
Not necessarily. VT has a med program and hospital access. [/quote]
Do you mean Schiffert hospital? It has only 11 doctors.
Schiffert is the VT campus health center. The Virginia Tech Carillion School of Medicine in Roanoke is the med school.
Correct, VT has two medical programs. Carillion and VCOM.
VCOM is a private college of osteopathic medicine. It is in Blacksburg but not part of Virginia Tech.
A medical option for VT students regardless.
Anonymous
05/31/2023 17:14
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it better to try for Georgetown or UNC or UMD due to better pre-med and hospitals around?
Not necessarily. VT has a med program and hospital access. [/quote]
Do you mean Schiffert hospital? It has only 11 doctors.
Schiffert is the VT campus health center. The Virginia Tech Carillion School of Medicine in Roanoke is the med school.
Correct, VT has two medical programs. Carillion and VCOM.
VCOM is a private college of osteopathic medicine. It is in Blacksburg but not part of Virginia Tech.
Anonymous
05/31/2023 12:13
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it better to try for Georgetown or UNC or UMD due to better pre-med and hospitals around?
Not necessarily. VT has a med program and hospital access. [/quote]
Do you mean Schiffert hospital? It has only 11 doctors.
Schiffert is the VT campus health center. The Virginia Tech Carillion School of Medicine in Roanoke is the med school.
Correct, VT has two medical programs. Carillion and VCOM.
Anonymous
05/31/2023 12:10
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it better to try for Georgetown or UNC or UMD due to better pre-med and hospitals around?
Not necessarily. VT has a med program and hospital access. [/quote]
Do you mean Schiffert hospital? It has only 11 doctors.
Schiffert is the VT campus health center. The Virginia Tech Carillion School of Medicine in Roanoke is the med school.
Anonymous
05/31/2023 11:18
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it better to try for Georgetown or UNC or UMD due to better pre-med and hospitals around?
Not necessarily. VT has a med program and hospital access. [/quote]
Do you mean Schiffert hospital? It has only 11 doctors.
Nice trolling. Schiffert is the health center for students. As you know.
Actually I don’t. I’m trying to figure out what PO means by “hospital access@. UVA has its medical center. Is the hospital access the Carilion center in Roanoke?
Anonymous
05/30/2023 20:45
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
My stepson graduated from VT with a degree in Neuroscience (their School of Neuroscience is spectacular) and will be starting med school at Georgetown this fall. It’s a great program.
Anonymous
05/30/2023 20:15
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
They have a vet school too.
Anonymous
05/30/2023 20:00
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Just like everywhere, hard workers do fine in med school apps. I know one admitted this spring to 6 med/DO programs; they worked for it though.
It’s not a place where students get their hands held. However, professors are responsive, and study groups are prevalent. Requires some independence as a student. Many students continue to medical school, dental school, vet school and physician assistant programs.
+1 Not sure people realize how much work is required for pre-med to truly make the grades to be competitive for med schools. Professors will not hold hands or make exceptions.
Anonymous
05/30/2023 19:55
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Just like everywhere, hard workers do fine in med school apps. I know one admitted this spring to 6 med/DO programs; they worked for it though.
It’s not a place where students get their hands held. However, professors are responsive, and study groups are prevalent. Requires some independence as a student. Many students continue to medical school, dental school, vet school and physician assistant programs.
It’s not a place where students get their hands held. However, professors are responsive, and study groups are prevalent. Requires some independence as a student. Many students continue to medical school, dental school, vet school and physician assistant programs.
Anonymous
05/30/2023 19:38
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it better to try for Georgetown or UNC or UMD due to better pre-med and hospitals around?
Not necessarily. VT has a med program and hospital access. [/quote]
Do you mean Schiffert hospital? It has only 11 doctors.
Nice trolling. Schiffert is the health center for students. As you know.
Anonymous
05/30/2023 19:37
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:VT may have "Tech" in its name, but it's also excellent for the humanities, sciences, business, languages, and more.
It's actually "Polytechnic" which includes any applied sciences and businesses.
Right, but some people think it’s literally just a STEM school. There’s a lot more to it than that.
DP
Anonymous
05/30/2023 13:34
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it better to try for Georgetown or UNC or UMD due to better pre-med and hospitals around?
Not necessarily. VT has a med program and hospital access. [/quote]
Do you mean Schiffert hospital? It has only 11 doctors.
No, but you already knew that.
Anonymous
05/30/2023 12:59
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
If the goal is legitimatley medical school [as opposed to pre med for one semester and then you know your kid, they'll drop out], it pays to be strategic.
Even if cost is no object, it pays NOT to go to ultra competitive schools that grade on a curve; places like Hopkins aren't great places to go for pre med bc EVERYONE is pre med and so strongly competitive, that ultimately the top med schools can't just fill their whole med school classes with just Hopkins undergrads.
I know more than one person who has gone to Hopkins or Cornell undergrad (grade deflationary) and been disappointed to end up at a state school for med school - bc they were people who wanted the resume pedigree of Hopkins undergrad to Penn Med or whatever.
On the flip side I know more than one person who went pre med at Wisconsin or Virginia Tech, was a bigger fish in a smaller pond, and landed at med school at Penn or Mayo or Columbia.
I know some will say med school is med school it doesn't matter, but it does. Your ticket is written if you go to a top med school - in large part because they are pass/fail, so you are just there to learn and aren't then competiting to be in the top % of your class to get a good residency. You want to go to as highly ranked of a med school as you can get into.
Even if cost is no object, it pays NOT to go to ultra competitive schools that grade on a curve; places like Hopkins aren't great places to go for pre med bc EVERYONE is pre med and so strongly competitive, that ultimately the top med schools can't just fill their whole med school classes with just Hopkins undergrads.
I know more than one person who has gone to Hopkins or Cornell undergrad (grade deflationary) and been disappointed to end up at a state school for med school - bc they were people who wanted the resume pedigree of Hopkins undergrad to Penn Med or whatever.
On the flip side I know more than one person who went pre med at Wisconsin or Virginia Tech, was a bigger fish in a smaller pond, and landed at med school at Penn or Mayo or Columbia.
I know some will say med school is med school it doesn't matter, but it does. Your ticket is written if you go to a top med school - in large part because they are pass/fail, so you are just there to learn and aren't then competiting to be in the top % of your class to get a good residency. You want to go to as highly ranked of a med school as you can get into.
Anonymous
05/30/2023 12:31
Subject: Virginia Tech - pre-med
Anonymous wrote:VT may have "Tech" in its name, but it's also excellent for the humanities, sciences, business, languages, and more.
It's actually "Polytechnic" which includes any applied sciences and businesses.