Anonymous wrote:Acceptance rates depend largely on the pool’s overall quality.

I’m personally not a fan of WashU in general. But let’s be honest, Wash U has a tippy top medical school (in the same league as Harvard Medical School). There’s lots of spillovers to undergrad pre-meds.

Why?

DC’s reservations about pre-med at Wash U boil down to the stereotype that students: (1) study all the time only to be rewarded with terrible grades; and (2) there’s nothing to do at Wash U so everyone just stays in their dorms and studies all the time.

Is this stereotype overblown?

Anonymous wrote:Acceptance rates depend largely on the pool’s overall quality.

I’m personally not a fan of WashU in general. But let’s be honest, Wash U has a tippy top medical school (in the same league as Harvard Medical School). There’s lots of spillovers to undergrad pre-meds.

PS. And yes, I have personally (fairly frequent at some point) interactions with the faculty at their med school.

Acceptance rates depend largely on the pool’s overall quality.

I’m personally not a fan of WashU in general. But let’s be honest, Wash U has a tippy top medical school (in the same league as Harvard Medical School). There’s lots of spillovers to undergrad pre-meds.

Full disclosure dd just chose Washington University over Emory for premed. She did a lot of research and visited. Ultimately, she liked that Washu, while very well-known and regarded for its premed opportunities, wasn’t as highly saturated with premed kids. She liked that diversity. Best she could tell Emory had an higher concentration of premeds on campus. Maybe twice as many. And WashU premed kids seemed happy. She heard only positive things about grades, rigor, advising, research, and opportunities. Hard decision! She would not have applied to Emory if she didn’t think it was amazing as well.

WashU has arguably good outcomes. I think you can slice and dice it different ways. In any case kids who can do well at washu are accepted to med school.

But this isn’t about Emory. She knows girls who have chosen WashU over northwestern and Cornell too—Specifically for premed. It has a very strong reputation for premed that punches above its overall ranking. The washu name carries a lot of weight in medical admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't say Emory has an inferior campus, it's gorgeous, all white marble etc and med complex right there on campus. Plus major city and all that it has to offer. Surrounding off campus apartments have pools, tennis courts etc and weather is fab. Nothing at all to complain about with their campus, I won't give anyone that.

NP. I think the PP meant the Oxford campus that the Emory mom/troll here wants to sweep under the rug pretending that it doesn't exist so that Emory is just the Atlanta campus which is more selective than the Oxford one.

I give it 10 minutes before Emory mom comes back with a response.

Yea Im back Emory +Oxford acceptance rate this year (class of 2030) is 12% either matching or a little lower than WashU acceptance rate which I beileve is 13%. Just Emory is 8%. WashU cant even beat Emory's b campus.

Please stop with the lies. You're embarrassing yourself and Emory.

Anonymous wrote:Endless bickering about tier-2 schools by sad losers. But clearly Emory mom is the absolute worst. I really like the school but you just turn everyone off by incessantly boosting it and lying.

There is something about Emory that breeds this obsession with proving yourself and the rankings. My kid told me about this known troll who comments on all TikToks about college admissions asking for the OP to rank a set of schools, or makes snarky remarks. She goes to Emory. So n=2

I know who you're talking about and she doesn't go to Emory, but Georgetown. She posts on reddit as well.

Endless bickering about tier-2 schools by sad losers. But clearly Emory mom is the absolute worst. I really like the school but you just turn everyone off by incessantly boosting it and lying.

There is something about Emory that breeds this obsession with proving yourself and the rankings. My kid told me about this known troll who comments on all TikToks about college admissions asking for the OP to rank a set of schools, or makes snarky remarks. She goes to Emory. So n=2

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't say Emory has an inferior campus, it's gorgeous, all white marble etc and med complex right there on campus. Plus major city and all that it has to offer. Surrounding off campus apartments have pools, tennis courts etc and weather is fab. Nothing at all to complain about with their campus, I won't give anyone that.

NP. I think the PP meant the Oxford campus that the Emory mom/troll here wants to sweep under the rug pretending that it doesn't exist so that Emory is just the Atlanta campus which is more selective than the Oxford one.

I give it 10 minutes before Emory mom comes back with a response.

Yea Im back Emory +Oxford acceptance rate this year (class of 2030) is 12% either matching or a little lower than WashU acceptance rate which I beileve is 13%. Just Emory is 8%. WashU cant even beat Emory's b campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Washu has acceptance a ton off the waitlist thus far before May 1st.

Ignore Emory mom or troll who likes to make up information.

This.