Schools that have notoriously high premed ratios

[BigRedPingpong]

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Is it me or is EVERY single class I take filled with premeds? Cornell is FAMOUS for this crap. Even classes like Personality have tons of gunners.

On a side note: Does a premed permanantly relinquish his/her premed status when they are accepted but still fininshing up last semester?

Ok, Name your schools people so that I can compare who has more gunners.

 

[DrJ2B]

NYU................fa' sheezie mah neezie!

 

[lilstina]

hopkins 🙄 😛

 

[DD214_DOC]

Maybe you find a lot of premeds in your classes because you are also premed.

 

[medstylee]

Northwestern - it's sickening sometimes.

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by JKDMed
Maybe you find a lot of premeds in your classes because you are also premed.

I was about to say this as well, and I would think this would be quite obvious.

 

[ptanpit1]

Hopkins undergrad!
Rumor at my school is that the first year class of ~1000 is 40-50% premed.

180 finish the premed program and ~150 matriculate somewhere every-year.

 

[Auricae]

Northwestern... full of hardcore, crazy, pre-meds

 

[TRUE]

I think no matter where you go to school, you always feel your school is full of pre-meds...because you're one, you know all of them, you might have some feelings for them (not necessarily positive 😉 ), and they're in all of your classes. After all, you spend much of the first 2 or 3 years of college in pre-med classes and so do they. It's all a trick of the mind. The only way to answer the question is by #'s.

 

[ManchotPi]

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[TheFlash]

I think most, if not all, tier 1 schools are filled with pre-meds. I was reading somewhere that ~35% of U.S. freshmen define themselves as "pre-med" before beginning their first semester of college. Of course most of them get weeded out and never make it to medical school, but it does go a long way to explain why everyone seems to be pre-med in the first couple years of college.

tf

 

[drlexygoat]

Originally posted by TheFlash
I was reading somewhere that ~35% of U.S. freshmen define themselves as "pre-med" before beginning their first semester of college.

Holy crap! That's a HUGE number. I'm involved with teaching some gen chem classes and most of the people I talk to are pre med or predent. After that first harrowing semester I'm sure it will weed most out. Now that I'm in my last semester, I know of only a handful who have stuck with it.

 

[duka]

Maybe i'm the odd one out here, but I never really noticed an abundance of pre-med people in my classes-- many more people going onto PhDs and other things. I went to a liberal arts school, but it's a good science school that is in the top three for NIH funding within small (<5000 students) colleges and universities in the US... I just never had that feeling.

 

[markus21]

I'm gonna throw another vote for Hopkins... Hopkins is notorious for having a lot of premeds. It's definitely close to 50% of the entire class. Of the people who actually end up applying, 90% gets into a med school so I guess that is part of the reason why.

Ugh.. I can't believe I was one of those who made up the 10% who didn't get in last year! 😕

 

[Lux Aeterna]

Originally posted by ManchotPi
Also, luckily Harvard orgo lab is now pass/fail (no grading based on yield etc.) so people's inner-gunner-personality had no incentive to come into the light.

I'm jealous! Ochem lab at my school was gunner's paradise! It got pretty ugly

😳

 

[lizzylu]

OK, I'm surprised no one has posted this but UC Berkeley is notorious for pre-meds, and most are gunners. Becoming friends w/ them is impossible b/c they think you might ruin their chances to get into UCSF or UCLA.

 

[joe42581]

another vote for berkeley!

 

[g3pro]

oh, how i loathe gunners. i had enough of em in high school.

 

[exmike]

I gotta throw another one in there for Hopkins.

Seriously, who isnt pre-med at hopkins. I mean, we had TWO sections (classes) for organic chemistry per semester. Thats a huge accomplishment for a school with less than 1000 students per year (when I was there). And of course the two classes were held in the two largest lecture halls on campus. I'd estimate there must have been a total of 500 or so in the two sections. 50% premed? who knows. but its possible.

Damn I'm glad to have survived with my throat intact.

 

[exmike]

Originally posted by lizzylu
OK, I'm surprised no one has posted this but UC Berkeley is notorious for pre-meds, and most are gunners. Becoming friends w/ them is impossible b/c they think you might ruin their chances to get into UCSF or UCLA.

We're not talking about sheer numbers, we're talking about ratios.

 

[musiclink213]

we have very few premeds at my school, but the ones we got are such gunners, i cannot stand most of them. they make me want to shoot myself in the head. i think this is why i have very few pre med friends in my class, most are in the year above me. it's all like, what did you get on the test? oh, 84? is that all? me, i didn't do to well, i got a 98. makes me want to puke.

 

[CalBeE]

A vote for UCLA, but probably in terms of ratio not as high as Hopkins or Berkeley

 

[TRUE]

Originally posted by exmike
I gotta throw another one in there for Hopkins.

Seriously, who isnt pre-med at hopkins. I mean, we had TWO sections (classes) for organic chemistry per semester. Thats a huge accomplishment for a school with less than 1000 students per year (when I was there). And of course the two classes were held in the two largest lecture halls on campus. I'd estimate there must have been a total of 500 or so in the two sections. 50% premed? who knows. but its possible.

Damn I'm glad to have survived with my throat intact.

at columbia we have 3 orgo sections per semester (not including orgo offered across the street at Barnard) with about 100-200 per class and orgo is usually taken 2nd or 3rd year when there already had been some weeding out in biology, gen chem and physics which are usually taken first. We have a lot of pre-meds but like I said, it's useless to just say: we have a lot of pre-meds. None of us know the #'s.

 

[BerkeleyPremed]

I'm gonna have to agree with the above posters here. The OP probably thinks his school is full of gunner premeds just because he IS a premed and sees the same folks in class after class (well...at least in biology, chemistry, etc). The only school I can think of that probably does have an unusually high proportion of premeds is Johns Hopkins (for obvious reasons).