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In your opinion, what school has the best pre med program?
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Hey hnbui!
Frankly, you should go to a school that fits you. You do not want to go to a top school and then be miserable. Visit some schools and see which schools you like. There is no school with the best premed program. You can tailor your own college education. You do not have to major in a science to be premed. All you have to do is take the required classes and some upper-level bio classes. Many of my friends had a great time majoring in English, a foreign language, history, and economics. I am at NYU and I like the premed classes except for physics which is horrible here. If I could decide again, I would have applied to Cornell, UPenn, and Duke which have some really great programs. I would have also applied to schools in Cali like UCLA and UCB because they have so many cool majors and classes. I would apply to small liberal arts schools because they have small classes and you feel like you are not just a number. You do not have to go to Harvard to get into medical school. If you get in and do badly, there is no pity for you from medical schools. Choose schools in your range (gpa, SAT/ACT, ECs), some safe schools, and some top schools. Be yourself in your essays and see what happens. You can always apply early decision to a top school and see what happens, but I would advise against that if all you can say is you want to go because it is a top school. Don't regret going to a certain school because you had visions of grandeur of being a student there. Talk to your guidance counselor and see what you can do. Also, take the SAT again and work hard and see if you can improve a good deal. Good luck with everything!
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Frankly, you should go to a school that fits you. You do not want to go to a top school and then be miserable. Visit some schools and see which schools you like. There is no school with the best premed program. You can tailor your own college education. You do not have to major in a science to be premed. All you have to do is take the required classes and some upper-level bio classes. Many of my friends had a great time majoring in English, a foreign language, history, and economics. I am at NYU and I like the premed classes except for physics which is horrible here. If I could decide again, I would have applied to Cornell, UPenn, and Duke which have some really great programs. I would have also applied to schools in Cali like UCLA and UCB because they have so many cool majors and classes. I would apply to small liberal arts schools because they have small classes and you feel like you are not just a number. You do not have to go to Harvard to get into medical school. If you get in and do badly, there is no pity for you from medical schools. Choose schools in your range (gpa, SAT/ACT, ECs), some safe schools, and some top schools. Be yourself in your essays and see what happens. You can always apply early decision to a top school and see what happens, but I would advise against that if all you can say is you want to go because it is a top school. Don't regret going to a certain school because you had visions of grandeur of being a student there. Talk to your guidance counselor and see what you can do. Also, take the SAT again and work hard and see if you can improve a good deal. Good luck with everything!
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You know, all things considered I have to be thankful for UCR's biomedical program.
It does one of three things. Shoots you straight into medical school, weeds you out, or destroys you just to the breaking point and if you don't want to quit, you quickly learn how to be an effective student (mainly out of sheer desperation). Even beyond all the basic pre-req requirements I have to say the teachers are top-notch and most of the courses focus heavily on cutting edge and new material (textbooks begin to become replaced with journal articles). Even the way the courses are set up, to encourage you to take as many courses as you can before you hit the fun stuff, so you have a good basis of understanding on a wide field of subjects.
And if you ask anyone who's transferred out of UCR or graduated into grad school, they'll all say nothing is harder than a science curriculum at UCR.
It does one of three things. Shoots you straight into medical school, weeds you out, or destroys you just to the breaking point and if you don't want to quit, you quickly learn how to be an effective student (mainly out of sheer desperation). Even beyond all the basic pre-req requirements I have to say the teachers are top-notch and most of the courses focus heavily on cutting edge and new material (textbooks begin to become replaced with journal articles). Even the way the courses are set up, to encourage you to take as many courses as you can before you hit the fun stuff, so you have a good basis of understanding on a wide field of subjects.
And if you ask anyone who's transferred out of UCR or graduated into grad school, they'll all say nothing is harder than a science curriculum at UCR.
